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I remember those rosettes. Always around for 4th qualifying round and 1st round proper days. Fantastic.
Under Dave it’s been Three quarter finals, two semi finals and a final where our name became embedded in cup history forever after we won it.
We can never thank him enough.Fully agree Donny. It will be a sad day when the Whelan family finally hand over control of the club. As a little kid pretty much dragged to my first game kicking and screaming I instantly fell in love once the game started and it has become as big a part of my life as anything else.
It was just before Whelan took over that I started going and since then I have seen things that I could only dream about in the first few seasons.
Winning the Auto Windscreens at Wembley was huge in 99 and one of my favourite ever days and then losing the playoff final the year later hurt like hell and will stick with me for all the opposite reasons. Fast forward 14 years and I had those same feelings watching us win the most famous cup competition in the world and then losing so agonisingly a year later in the semi final when we were so so close to defending it. Not to mention last seasons cup run as well.
It’s not just the FA Cup runs though is it? 5 promotions, 4 league titles, the Premier League, the League Cup final and 6 amazing games in Europe.
I wouldn’t swap what I have seen this club achieve for any other and as you say, we owe it all to Dave Whelan.
Don’t know why the advertisers aren’t targetting the Asian viewers of rugby league though ;)https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kim-jong-uns-mad-museum-13249470
The Americanised names (or utter cheesy shit) are just a marketing tool aimed at the kids and have very little to do with the popularity of the sport really do they? It’s not as though people will stop watching the team/sport because of it otherwise West Brom would be f**** with their new mascot.
At the risk of being a pedant.
1. Toronto’s average attendance for the 2018 season was 4500 – and half of the people who turn up to watch are ex-pats from the north of England.
Can you provide a link as to where that stat come from?
2. Canada already has its own football league system and will have a fully professional league from next season.And how long has it taken to get to this stage?
the Canadian clubs also play teams who are an hour’s flight away as well those that are at the end of a six hour flight – whereas every team that Toronto Wolfpacks play is across the Atlantic and on a different continent!Four clubs play in the MLS – Toronto, Ottowa, Montreal & Vancouver. Again, how many years has it taken to get to this stage?
The Canadian teams in MLS all have 20k+ average attendances, and therefore it suggests there is a football fanbase, and justifies them being in the richest league in North America.Again, how many years has it taken to get to this stage?
Toronto Wolfpacks on the other hand is another ridiculous attempt to try and popularise in a region where is there’s no tradition and scant fanbase – when they should be consolidating what they already have in UK.Your opinion. Why shouldn’t there be Rugby League played in North America? Frankly, with the anti-RL “establishment” in the UK that block any attempts to grow the game, it doesn’t surprise me that the RFL have decided to look elsewhere for expansion.[/quote]
Toronto are a farce it is as simple as that. They should have stuck the money into starting a Canadian league or improving the game over here. Leigh couldn’t field a team the other week.
Rugby Union do similar to us however with two of their comps. Super Rugby has sides from Australia, NZ, South Africa and Argentina.
The Pro14 has teams from Wales, Scotland, Ireland and South Africa.
The Toronto owner has been paying for the clubs to go over.
I agree though, utter farce. Start a league in Canada if they enjoy it so much.
Saying that, they get bigger crowds than some ‘established, clubs.
Replaced by Dean Smith at Brentford. A real shame for them as he has them playing some very good stuff.
But goal line technology used on the day proved otherwise.
Have they got it in the Championship these days??[/quote]
I thought it was PL only.
Same thing to us mere mortals TL lol.
I thought it was a shocker personally. Late, high and no intention to do anything but take the man out. Similar to the Cardiff one that Colin somehow though was ok but nowhere near as bad.
Kids tickets maybe, but not adult ones as well. I used to get offered kids tickets for BOTH sides when I was at school.
Aye, WWE is my guilty pleasure I suppose.
Totally different game nowadays.
I agree that international friendlies are rubbish though, but breaks for qualifiers etc are needed.
