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If you were doing anything with Sheffield it would be to create a South Yorkshire team sharing the games out and playing them in Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley – much like the county cricket teams do and Munster do between Limerick and Cork.
I’m sure if the Cumbrians suddenly had a Super League team that varied its games between Barrow, Whitehaven and Carlisle they’d get on board. But in any case, f’ck em! It’s either that or they watch amateur rugby.
Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield could be West Yorkshire.
Saints, Warrington and Widnes could merge to become Livwerpool, or Merseyside,and
Wigan. Salford and Oldham could become Gt Manchester and play at that sports stadium next to City’s ground, or Salfords new ground.[/quote]Back on topic if we could seeing as we actually have a half decent RL based thread here:
There is actually more chance of us merging with Bolton than any of that happening.
IF there were to be any mergers in rugby league then you’d be looking at a similar layout to that that was first pressed in 1995.
Initially, several mergers between existing clubs were proposed:
Castleford, Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers would form Calder
Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers would form Hull
Whitehaven, Workington Town, Barrow and Carlisle would form Cumbria
Warrington and Widnes were to form Cheshire
Salford and Oldham were to form Manchester
Sheffield and Doncaster were to form South Yorkshire
They were to be included with the following stand-alone clubs: St. Helens, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford Northern, Halifax, London Broncos and Paris Saint-Germain.That would now change to having something along the lines of:
Castleford, Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers would form Calder
Whitehaven, Workington Town, Barrow and Carlisle would form Cumbria
Salford, Swinton and Oldham were to form ManchesterStand-alone clubs: St. Helens, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford, Hull FC, Hull KR, London Broncos, Catalans Dragons, Warrington, Widnes, Huddersfield.
It’s about time we were on the happy side of late goals. I used to have my eyes shut during added on time.
John Spot on. The build up in the Square before the game was amazing and to miss that after being told you would be there in time to enjoy the pre. match atmosphere and paying a PREMIUM price is akin to paying to go to watch your favourite artist in concert and only getting there to see them sing their last song. If they(Shearings) hadn’t altered the original stated departure time this problem wouldn’t have happened. Has anyone found out why the original time was changed?TBF they usually save the best till last ;)
Rugby fan and general WUM that he may be, wishing death on Mutty or any other poster will not be tolerated joking or not.
You being racist again Griff with your Scotland comment ;)
The Euro 96 semi final was the first major low I experienced
Joey Barton regularly comments on the televised matches.
That, on its own, is enough to give the whole sport a swerve, in my opinion ;)[/quote]
I did think that when I wrote it :cheer:
And all those Utd/City/ Liverpool supporting Wiganers all seem to support the Warriors and that is what gets my goat, insecure plastic tw*ts!Correct, and then they need to ask me the best ways to and from Old Trafford
What a shame that all the Warriors players ( and their coach ) all seem to support United or City then like the proud Wiganers that they are :blush:TBF most Wiganers support Utd, Liverpool or City hence why we have sh*t crowds :cheer:
Another problem is that they expect things to work immediatley. They should have left Celtic Crusaders in the lower leagues for a further 3 years minimum to build their name. Throwing them in the Super League and expecting them to survive was doomed to fail.
Gateshead were doing ok and then scrapped to save Hull. Sides like Leigh and Featherstone are stepped on to save sides like London.
If they want to grow the game then they need to take it step by step as they now seem to be with Oxford and Gloucester.
Coyle stated when he took over that he’s a big fan of the sport and will try to get to some games when he can.
Scott Carson is a supposed life long Wigan fan and a friend of his plays for Whitehaven.
Joey Barton regularly comments on the televised matches.
Rio Ferdinand tweeted good luck to the Wigan players before they beat Leeds and then tweeted about being Champions. He has been to Wigan games with Wayne Rooney (supposedly a Leeds fan), Ryan Giggs (life long Wigan fan), Gary Neville and Roy Keane.
Ryan Giggs was interviewed at half time during the state of origin decider in Australia and the whole Utd squad watched the game live.
Football fans may hate the sport, but most players love it.
Some good points there Standish. I do think some of the smaller clubs/areas would benefit from a merger as opposed to trying to support 2 or 3 sides but imagine your reaction if we were told to merge with Bolton so we could fill a 30,000 seater stadium between us.
The big problem that RL has in my opinion is that the powers that be are too scared of upsetting the little clubs and thus punish the big clubs.
Ian Lenegan has taken some stick from Wigan fans due to the sale of some players and his voting to keep the salary cap as it is as opposed to raising it. He did that though because the smaller clubs are struggling to compete now so by giving the likes of Wigan, Leeds and Warrington even more money to spend will just widen that gap and see more clubs go bust striving to compete.
Personally I would bring a ruling in regards homegrown talent. If a club like Wakefield produce a player then they should be able to either keep that player or sell him for a substantial amount as opposed to losing him for nothing. Can you imagine if that great Utd side of Giggs, Neville, Scholes, Beckham, Butt had to be split up because Utd were broke or would break the salary cap. I’m not sure whether the way forward is to put loopholes in place for homegrown talent such as only 50% of their wage counting on the cap or bringing in a rule that any club wishing to sign them has to pay for them regardless of whether they’re under contract or not which follows the under 23 rule in football (think it’s 23 anyway). Whether you could get away with that under employment law I don’t know but I’m not sure how you get away with the salary cap either.
I am genuinely worried about the future of the game but not because of the money or the competition. The governing body are complicating a simple game with rule changes and silly ideas like the club call. They try to promote the sport and pride theirselves on the toughness of the players but then create rules that water down the toughness of the sport. My biggest worry about RL is that in 2 years time it’ll be tick and pass.
I thought we’d established that the world didn’t watch egg chasing. Thus it will tell the world naff all id imagine
