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Black Backgrounds/Zoot.gif A wise man once told me, "Any hole is a goal".:Black Backgrounds/Zoot.gif |
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| There are some interesting ideas in this thread.
If the league and cup competitions remain as they are, I would personally prefer dropping down to 12 teams for many of the reasons already stated. As someone has already said, to keep the season the same length, introduce the bye (although the play offs would have to drop to six teams) so Sky get more or less the same amount of games per season to televise.
If there was to be a shakeup at Redhall, I 'd like to see a return to the team winning the most games in a regular season crowned champions. And the reintroduction of the Premiership trophy; it'd still be an end of season finale, there'd be the second knock out competition that some posters would like to see (three season trophies up for grabs) and those teams not in the championship run off would still have something to play for at the end of the season.
I don't mind the whole GF scenario but I think the system is flawed when it's possible for a team to just scrape into the play offs and possibly win the competition. The biggest accolade should be for the most conistent, therefore season long performance.
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54781_1349275167.jpg Standee wrote: "because watching hull fc isn't worth the 200+ mile round trip ."
I rest my case:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_54781.jpg |
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| FWIW I think if the heartlands of RL are suffering then look after your own and not anymore do we continue to look outwards, its time they looked inwards at the backbone of British RL grass roots clubs .......
Spend time and money investing in community development at the West hulls, Heworths, Thatto heath, crossfields, st pats and such clubs in the UK and start all over again, help clubs like Batley, York and so on with investment but no more Londons or crusaders for now till austerity is a thing of the past and finances look brighter , support the flat cappers who go to doncaster and whitehaven etc week in week out and bring their teams forward instead of taking the SL backwards by spreading the jam too thin
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| Quote: voodooroo "FWIW I think if the heartlands of RL are suffering then look after your own and not anymore do we continue to look outwards, its time they looked inwards at the backbone of British RL grass roots clubs .......
Spend time and money investing in community development at the West hulls, Heworths, Thatto heath, crossfields, st pats and such clubs in the UK and start all over again, help clubs like Batley, York and so on with investment but no more Londons or crusaders for now till austerity is a thing of the past and finances look brighter , support the flat cappers who go to doncaster and whitehaven etc week in week out and bring their teams forward instead of taking the SL backwards by spreading the jam too thin'"
I like jam.
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54781_1349275167.jpg Standee wrote: "because watching hull fc isn't worth the 200+ mile round trip ."
I rest my case:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_54781.jpg |
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| Quote: Barnabus "I like jam.'"
you are clearly whom they thought of when they banned brothers from marrying their sisters
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| Quote: voodooroo "The RFL gave them a license in SL however what travelling finances do they offer to the rest of SL,
if the rest of SL fans from each club decided to travel to them in the same numbers their massive army of travelling support and the cash cow do to the rest of SL , they would be bankrupt in 6 months as they survive on one thing
travelling supporters!!!'"
They survive because their owner pours money into them. You're kidding yourself if you think enough travelling fans pitch up to fund their club.
Quote: voodooroo "The RFL continue to allow name changes, ground changes , underwhelming performance and have i believe supported them in the past
bank rolling IMO to even grant them a license, would SL be a worse place without them or even notice they had gone.....'"
The RFL have never given them money. The RFL has no authority to stop a club changing it's name or ground. The decision to re-admit them after they went bust was made by the club chairmen. And SKY would notice they had gone.
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| Quote: voodooroo "FWIW I think if the heartlands of RL are suffering then look after your own and not anymore do we continue to look outwards, its time they looked inwards at the backbone of British RL grass roots clubs .......
Spend time and money investing in community development at the West hulls, Heworths, Thatto heath, crossfields, st pats and such clubs in the UK and start all over again, help clubs like Batley, York and so on with investment but no more Londons or crusaders for now till austerity is a thing of the past and finances look brighter , support the flat cappers who go to doncaster and whitehaven etc week in week out and bring their teams forward instead of taking the SL backwards by spreading the jam too thin'"
The only money spent on London is the money they are due from the SKY package, so whether they are in SL or not is irrelevant to how much gets invested in the grass roots.
BTW - do you know how much that is? Or have you just assumed that it's not much?
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