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| Quote: champagnecharlie "Trinfan, i think the league you have posted looks very exciting, how strong could our international team be if the top league looked like that?
Bring it on i say.
All i want from rugby league now is for an England Team to beat Australia in a full series or tournament, i could die happy then.'"
You must be planning on living forever.
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| Quote: StanTHEWildcat "Why do you think theyll want 2 hull clubs?'"
Because they are more sustainable in the league until the horrible 'M' word comes around again and a Scottish or Irish team displaces them.
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| Quote: baztiger "Am sick of saying this now lol, fans of clubs like our should be forming groups going to red hall and protest or we can just bend over and take it!!!!!'"
You can form all the groups you like but the current RFL regime want their expansion and they are going to get it one way or another, at what ever the cost.
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| Quote: trinfan71 "You can form all the groups you like but the current RFL regime want their expansion and they are going to get it one way or another, at what ever the cost.'"
I think the cost will be the death of Rugby League.
The game is financially and morally bankrupt. If or when the "sugar daddies" get tired of spending millions of thier own money (or die) and Sky find that they can sell more dishes by broadcasting live croquet and pull out the game is dead.
Expansion has not worked in my opinion (except maybe Catalans but they bring nothing in terms of income to UK clubs through the gate) but the RFL will not accept it and continue with this obsession for expanding the game where there is little to no history.
You should always look after the roots, if you don't the plant dies and that applies to Rugby League.
Bit of a dinosaur ? Yes but I don't think you will have to worry about the game in 15 years because I don't think there will be one - well not as we know it Jim.
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| Quote: champagnecharlie "Trinfan, i think the league you have posted looks very exciting, how strong could our international team be if the top league looked like that?
Bring it on i say.
All i want from rugby league now is for an England Team to beat Australia in a full series or tournament, i could die happy then.'"
I watched Australia demolish GB in the 3rd Test at Headingly, cant remember the year but it was early 70's and I said that I would never see GB beat Australia in a Test series in my lifetime. I stand by that but I'm an old man now but I'm afraid your'e going to die unhappy because whatever your age you are not going to see England (or GB) ever beat Australia in a series.
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| It strikes me that rugby league is part of the sporting and cultural heritage of the north of England. I think the RFL, as guardians of the game, should be doing everything they can to preserve and strengthen that heritage. Is rugby league stronger if SL is played in more places but the heartland is weak? Or is it stronger if it's only played in Yorks and Lancs but in front of large enthusiastic crowds, encouraging youngsters in schools and amateur clubs to take up the game and celebrating its own strong northern identity?
Other sports can claim a strong historic and cultural link with a particular country or part of a country (gaelic football, shinty, curling etc) but I can think of no other sport that is willing to sacrifice its own heritage and identity in order to "expand" the game.
My own view is that it will all go t1ts up. Expand the game by all means, but not at the expense of heartland clubs because without them, the game loses its souls and becomes a mere shadow of what it was and should be. The majority of people in the new expansion areas will not identify with the new teams and people in the heartlands will cease being interested in any great numbers (as is happening now in places like Oldham, Workington even Wakefield).
Trinfan's vision of the future is a tad optimistic - I don't really see Warrington, Huddersfield and Bradford fitting in to the brave new world. It's also my idea of a plastic, globalised, no soul, no substance nightmare. Not for me thanks.
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| Quote: Sandal Cat "
The game is financially and morally bankrupt. If or when the "sugar daddies" get tired of spending millions of thier own money (or die) and Sky find that they can sell more dishes by broadcasting live croquet and pull out the game is dead.
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Sky pulling out could be sooner than people think.If one of the Murdoch offspring takes over or if they
rldon't get their own wayrl
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| Quote: Sandal Cat "The game is financially and morally bankrupt. If or when the "sugar daddies" get tired of spending millions of thier own money (or die) and Sky find that they can sell more dishes by broadcasting live croquet and pull out the game is dead.'"
Are we talking club rugby union, football, rugby league, or many of the sports who, without Sky, would not have the riches available to them? The fact still remains, we relied on a 'sugar daddy' but the problem was he didn't have enough money to continue to support the club.
Anyway, Sky will not pull out of anything which brings in subscribers, plain and simple, they're a business. People continue to pay to watch Super League, Sky will keep the money flowing...
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| Quote: trinfan71 "In my humble opinion this playground stuff is all for nothing. Yes we the favourites to lose our licence but any Cas or Salford fan who thinks a shiny new (yet to be built) stadium is going move them out the RFL cross hairs is seriously mistaken. If we go first it will only mean we have given the other two a stay of execution. In 12 - 15yrs time the league will look in my opinion something similar to this.
Leeds
Wigan
St Helens
Warrington
North Wales
South Wales
Bradford
Huddersfield
Harlequins (North London)
South London
Catalan
Toulouse
Hull
Hull KR
Castleford, Widnes, Halifax, Barrow, Salford and Wakefield will not be in there because they do not fit into the grand design. They will have all had their day just to be replaced by an expansion team. They will over the next few franchise bids get their opportunity. Salford might have an outside bet of staying with them being the biggest club on the door step of Manchester and if another franchise fails, but by then Crusaders RL will have paid back the 10 year interest free loan and it will just be passed on to another struggling expansion franchise.
There are only two things that can prevent the death of our game as we know it. They are either Sky deciding to pull the plug (very unlikely) or the Football League pushing through a ruling stopping ground sharing with other sports. I know the latter has done the rounds before and will no doubt do it again.
These are just my views. I do sincerely hope I am wrong and the game doesn't become an inferior version of what it is today.'"
I totally agree with the lot but as an aside I would add that it seems the playground stuff has only become nothing to wakey fans since the outline pp was called in, before that you loved trying to stick it up cas fans with rodney walker and newmarket.
Strange how opinions change to suit circumstances
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| The benefits of a new stadium have been missed in this discussion.
1) Increased Capacity
2) Vastly superior facilities
3) Increase in Season Ticket sales
4) Increase in sponsorship
Those four factors will impact on the first team as with improved facilities and monies coming in we can compete for the better player as we are a more attractive proposition.
Put that stadium on the M62 corridor and ask yourself what is the best option for semi final and international rugby league, because it won't be Headingley.
Everything goes in cycles and I believe we will all see that change. If you want proof look at BLACKPOOL
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| Quote: thetruth "I totally agree with the lot but as an aside I would add that it seems the playground stuff has only become nothing to wakey fans since the outline pp was called in, before that you loved trying to stick it up cas fans with rodney walker and newmarket.
Strange how opinions change to suit circumstances'"
To be fair not everybody everybody jumped on the try and stick it to Cas band wagon. That being said even though Cas have applied for full planning permission that doesn't guarantee a new stadium does it?
There has been more than a fair share on minority fans on here jumping on the band wagon and sticking it to us in our current position.
So like you say Quote: thetruth "'Strange how opinions change to suit circumstances''"
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| Quote: gizmo "The benefits of a new stadium have been missed in this discussion.
1) Increased Capacity
2) Vastly superior facilities
3) Increase in Season Ticket sales
4) Increase in sponsorship
Those four factors will impact on the first team as with improved facilities and monies coming in we can compete for the better player as we are a more attractive proposition.
Put that stadium on the M62 corridor and ask yourself what is the best option for semi final and international rugby league, because it won't be Headingley.
Everything goes in cycles and I believe we will all see that change. If you want proof look at BLACKPOOL'"
They are all very good points, but the one major point you have missed is
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| I'd be quite happy (as can be) to see Wakey go down to the national leagues, and if we get our house in order, we would have a good chance of returning to Super League. That has got to be every national league clubs hopes of course. However with the current regime that is in place at the RFL I don't see where tired old clubs like Wakey, Halifax and Featherstone fit in to the master plan that the RFL (I have come to believe) have in mind.
Obviously there may come a time when someone will take the reigns of the RFL and see a different vision, where clubs promotion and relegation will come back. I've opposed the franchising system since it came in, to me it's just a way for the RFL to cherry pick teams that get Super League status by setting their own guidelines.
But right now, after many conversations with my pro football friends, with me defending the sport and the way it is run, I have completely admitted defeat. The sport as a game is IMO one of the best and most exciting in the world, but my attitude towards the sport has dwindled since franchising came to fruition. It has taken away that competitiveness that promotion and relegation provided, and took away the chance for clubs like Wakey, Halifax, Leigh and the rest a chance for a pop at Super League.
Hull KR got in at the right time, and they are proof that a club can rise from the national leagues and be successful in Super League, had they not been promoted when they were, they may be in a similar position to that of many championship clubs at the moment. It angers me that it now requires not a competitive playing squad and a good coach to get promotion, but money and investment. For me it has taken away all that I love about professional sport.
I really don't care if we don't get a franchise, it's our own fault at the end of the day, we have had years and years to address the issue of having a decent ground to play out of, and I think most Trinity fans agree with me. To see our board begging us for money, and moaning how they would like to just watch from the sidelines is just not good enough, and just goes to show how badly our club is being run. As such I have zero sympathy for our current situation.
However this doesn't mean to say that I will walk away from the club if we are rightly relegated. I would just like to feel as though we are on an even playing field. But I fear that we are not and could easily be brushed aside in the wake of the RFL's new love child, may that be in the form of another Welsh, French or Southern club. I would much rather the RFL be honest about their plans for the sport, but I doubt that this will ever happen and we will always be kept in the dark.
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| Quote: TFC "I'd be quite happy (as can be) to see Wakey go down to the national leagues, and if we get our house in order, we would have a good chance of returning to Super League. That has got to be every national league clubs hopes of course. However with the current regime that is in place at the RFL I don't see where tired old clubs like Wakey, Halifax and Featherstone fit in to the master plan that the RFL (I have come to believe) have in mind.
Obviously there may come a time when someone will take the reigns of the RFL and see a different vision, where clubs promotion and relegation will come back. I've opposed the franchising system since it came in, to me it's just a way for the RFL to cherry pick teams that get Super League status by setting their own guidelines.
But right now, after many conversations with my pro football friends, with me defending the sport and the way it is run, I have completely admitted defeat. The sport as a game is IMO one of the best and most exciting in the world, but my attitude towards the sport has dwindled since franchising came to fruition. It has taken away that competitiveness that promotion and relegation provided, and took away the chance for clubs like Wakey, Halifax, Leigh and the rest a chance for a pop at Super League.
Hull KR got in at the right time, and they are proof that a club can rise from the national leagues and be successful in Super League, had they not been promoted when they were, they may be in a similar position to that of many championship clubs at the moment. It angers me that it now requires not a competitive playing squad and a good coach to get promotion, but money and investment. For me it has taken away all that I love about professional sport.
I really don't care if we don't get a franchise, it's our own fault at the end of the day, we have had years and years to address the issue of having a decent ground to play out of, and I think most Trinity fans agree with me. To see our board begging us for money, and moaning how they would like to just watch from the sidelines is just not good enough, and just goes to show how badly our club is being run. As such I have zero sympathy for our current situation.
However this doesn't mean to say that I will walk away from the club if we are rightly relegated. I would just like to feel as though we are on an even playing field. But I fear that we are not and could easily be brushed aside in the wake of the RFL's new love child, may that be in the form of another Welsh, French or Southern club. I would much rather the RFL be honest about their plans for the sport, but I doubt that this will ever happen and we will always be kept in the dark.'"
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| There is a decent argument to say that expansion would help the game, albeit it would ultimately relegate our club permanently.
For example, if they created a Birmingham side that attracted 5,000 people a week, that is 5,000 people who don't go to games currently who would then be interested in the game, plus the extra knock on benefits of school and amateur interest. If we drop down a league and the crowds go to 2,000, then game has a 3,000 attendance profit.
The problem we have is that there are a lot of big clubs close by, and so the young players still have big clubs to play for, like Leeds, and smaller local clubs to use as a stepping stone, like us, Fev and Cas. I might be wrong, but I imagine that all that has changed around Fev, for example, or Leigh, is thT the youngsters aspire to play for the bigger clubs, like Leeds and Wigan, as opposed to their real hometown clubs.
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