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| Another poor quality game this evening. So many errors and penalties.
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| Quote: ComeOnYouUll "Another poor quality game this evening. So many errors and penalties.'"
Turned it off. Penalty or knock on every set. Really has been an awful weekend of rugby.
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| Quote: Hasbag "Turned it off. Penalty or knock on every set. Really has been an awful weekend of rugby.'"
Great if you are a HKR fan
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| Quote: bonaire "Great if you are a HKR fan'"
Or AP. One derby confirmed for next year, maybe 2 with the loop fixture. And we might get 6th now.
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| I've watch Burnley's v liverpool after turning off the rovers game after 15 minutes. Don't know why but the games in France always seem worse to watch than any UK ones
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| Quote: ComeOnYouUll "Another poor quality game this evening. So many errors and penalties.'" why complain you should be used to it
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| watching a football match,that takes me back 40 years.is it still 11 a side?
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| Didn’t bother watching any game on Sky over the weekend. I’m with JTP in watching football instead.
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| Quote: fosdyke99 "I do think the sport had more skill and flair when it was part time,but having said that I would still much rather watch rl than ru[ an upperclass sport that would be laughed at if it was the working class version of rugby] or football which ive never seen a game since the 70s.'"
How is RU an upper class sport?
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| if it wasn't supported by the upper class it wouldn't exist.twickers.ha ha I ask you.
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| Quote: fosdyke99 "if it wasn't supported by the upper class it wouldn't exist.twickers.ha ha I ask you.'"
Educated people, solicitors, doctors and the like? Do I detect a hint of jealousy? Plenty of people watching RU and RL are "working class", none so blind as them that refuse to see as they say.
Have you ever BEEN to an RU game, are all the people that go to brantigham "Upper Class"?
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| Ask grand final winners if the game is pants, I will only agree that the game has gone down hill after the 80’s , but I am a rovers fan btw
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| Long gone are the days of brilliant players playing the game. The salary Cap killed the game. Also if it is summer rugby why does the season start in January?
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| From my point of view there are a couple of factors about general apathy which have not yet been mentioned.
There is not real stand out, figure head type players in the English game at the moment. Ones a which you’d expect the sporting general public to be aware of if they appeared on something like Question of Sport. In my time of watching RL there has been the like s of Schofield, Hanley, Offiah, Edwards, Davies, Robinson, Farrell, Shorpe, Burgess and to a lesser extent Sinfield. All of which would have been widely recognised on TV. With the lack of a current day player, playing in the UK, the game struggles to get national coverage.
There is virtually no prospect of getting the top Australian talent to come over due to the salary cap difference .
The game now is much more about power and strength rather than craft and flair. IMO this could be putting off some kids from taking the game up.
From a Hull FC point of view, I thing we as fans probably expect too much. We are perhaps no real different from other set s of fans, but fans in general are hyper critical even after wins.
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| Quote: Mild mannered Janitor "From my point of view there are a couple of factors about general apathy which have not yet been mentioned.
There is not real stand out, figure head type players in the English game at the moment. Ones a which you’d expect the sporting general public to be aware of if they appeared on something like Question of Sport. In my time of watching RL there has been the like s of Schofield, Hanley, Offiah, Edwards, Davies, Robinson, Farrell, Shorpe, Burgess and to a lesser extent Sinfield. All of which would have been widely recognised on TV. With the lack of a current day player, playing in the UK, the game struggles to get national coverage.
There is virtually no prospect of getting the top Australian talent to come over due to the salary cap difference .
The game now is much more about power and strength rather than craft and flair. IMO this could be putting off some kids from taking the game up.
From a Hull FC point of view, I thing we as fans probably expect too much. We are perhaps no real different from other set s of fans, but fans in general are hyper critical even after wins.'"
It’s sort of ingrained in us, that we will beat Salford & Huddersfield “no disrespect intended” when we need to, but the realisation is, we are not as good as we think we are, and the shock of accepting this is hard to take.
This league has evened out, apart from Saints, when all clubs on any given day can beat each other, whether this is due to the salary cap working I don’t know. But one thing is apparent, whilst the league is interesting due to an equal competition, the actual quality is suffering all through the game. No superstars emerging, a very poor dynamic at present.
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