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Post by cobhamstokey on Oct 22, 2022 18:14:03 GMT
He’s rapid isn’t he. Haven’t watched RL as much over recent years shame as it’s such a great watch. Am I right in thinking it’s between the Aussies and NZ? I went to a GB v Aus at Wembley in the early 90s where Ellery Hanley was playing and we beat them with some Eastwood kicking. It was a great day and brilliant atmosphere. Such a shame there’s no clubs down here. I think the Aussies are the team to beat as usual but England have a good shout mate been impressed by them so far. Yep they’ve been decent in both games but not sure they’ve been really tested.
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Post by thevoid on Oct 22, 2022 19:34:11 GMT
The thing that puts me off League other than the occasional international is the 6 tackle rule whereby you have to surrender possession of you haven't scored after 6 'phases'. It's a bit too similar for American Football in that regard. In Union you can lay seige to the opponent's try line for phase after phase which is more exciting to me. Back in the day it was unlimited sets but the rule was changed for the very reason you identify. They wanted to increase the ebb and flow of the game and prevent a slow grind up to the opposition’s line. For me it was absolutely the right thing to do. There's definitely more flow to League but there's just something that stops me really taking to it- the RLWC has a hint of 'BDO' compared to the 'PDC' of it's Union equivalent, if that makes sense. I'd also like to see some closer games, Samoa were being vaunted as potential tournament winners and England put 60 on them. I do think Union should downgrade penalties and drop goals to 2 points though.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 22, 2022 20:02:58 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others
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Post by franklin on Oct 23, 2022 7:12:16 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Oct 23, 2022 7:20:55 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. It’s a shame as Id love a London team. It’s weird how that European league failed in the 90s where England had the London Monarchs and Scotland the Claymores. I guess some things just don’t work. Maybe if Sky was bigger and it was pushed more it’d have still been around. One of my regrets was never joining a team back in the 80s when the likes of the London Ravens were around. Did you ever used to get Gridiron magazine back in the day or Touchdown?
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Post by franklin on Oct 23, 2022 7:23:49 GMT
No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. It’s a shame as Id love a London team. It’s weird how that European league failed in the 90s where England had the London Monarchs and Scotland the Claymores. I guess some things just don’t work. Maybe if Sky was bigger and it was pushed more it’d have still been around. One of my regrets was never joining a team back in the 80s when the likes of the London Ravens were around. Did you ever used to get Gridiron magazine back in the day or Touchdown? I didn't I watched what I could on TV that's about it but as you know the amount of coverage now is brilliant roll on today's games.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Oct 23, 2022 7:45:45 GMT
It’s a shame as Id love a London team. It’s weird how that European league failed in the 90s where England had the London Monarchs and Scotland the Claymores. I guess some things just don’t work. Maybe if Sky was bigger and it was pushed more it’d have still been around. One of my regrets was never joining a team back in the 80s when the likes of the London Ravens were around. Did you ever used to get Gridiron magazine back in the day or Touchdown? I didn't I watched what I could on TV that's about it but as you know the amount of coverage now is brilliant roll on today's games. Indeed we are totally spoilt. It’s an amazing spectacle now especially when I look back to the 80s and a 1hr15 package on CH4 with Nicky Horne who I thought was great.
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Post by wagsastokie on Oct 23, 2022 8:46:28 GMT
No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. It’s a shame as Id love a London team. It’s weird how that European league failed in the 90s where England had the London Monarchs and Scotland the Claymores. I guess some things just don’t work. Maybe if Sky was bigger and it was pushed more it’d have still been around. One of my regrets was never joining a team back in the 80s when the likes of the London Ravens were around. Did you ever used to get Gridiron magazine back in the day or Touchdown? About ten year ago my eldest two lads played a couple of years for Norwich In some east Anglian league I don’t know if it’s still going
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 23, 2022 9:00:13 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. They are at least contested by evenly matched teams, that’s more what I was trying to say.
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Post by thevoid on Oct 23, 2022 10:54:04 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. I don't know much about baseball but I do know that the World in World Series was a newspaper that used to sponsor the event, and they kept the name.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Oct 25, 2022 12:04:14 GMT
Off to Samoa v France on Sunday. Not sure if it'll be a dead rubber by then or if Samoa will have something to play for.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 15:21:01 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. The World series title has nothing to do with it being a World Championship and the Superbowl is a closed shop? It's for NFL teams the same as say the FA Cup is for the Football league. No more nonsense than any other national tournament
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Post by Northy on Oct 27, 2022 15:40:05 GMT
It’s a bit of a closed shop isn’t it? I don’t mind rugby league especially in the 90s with Hanley and Offiah but a World Cup is a bit of a stretch. Australia then the others A guy who used to post on here many years ago set up the Stoke Staffies RL team for this season, but I'm not sure how they fared as the Facebook page has gone quiet and there isn't a team listed on the Midlands website, I couldn't find any fixtures or tables on there though everythingrugbyleague.com/dog-in-the-fight-staffies-born-with-an-aussie-pedigree/www.midlandsrl.com/clubs
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Post by franklin on Oct 27, 2022 15:46:29 GMT
No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. The World series title has nothing to do with it being a World Championship and the Superbowl is a closed shop? It's for NFL teams the same as say the FA Cup is for the Football league. No more nonsense than any other national tournament The FA Cup winners don't call themselves World Champions.
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Post by franklin on Oct 27, 2022 15:54:56 GMT
No more of a closed shop as the World Series or Suoerbowl now they are nonsense world champs. I don't know much about baseball but I do know that the World in World Series was a newspaper that used to sponsor the event, and they kept the name. Not thought to be correct and its disputed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 15:58:11 GMT
The World series title has nothing to do with it being a World Championship and the Superbowl is a closed shop? It's for NFL teams the same as say the FA Cup is for the Football league. No more nonsense than any other national tournament The FA Cup winners don't call themselves World Champions. You find a better team Worldwide at the sport than the Superbowl winners then... good luck. The Blue Jays have won the World Series and like I said it's as much a closed shop as any national tournament and the World Series champions doesn't refer to World Champions
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Post by franklin on Oct 27, 2022 16:00:58 GMT
The FA Cup winners don't call themselves World Champions. You find a better team Worldwide at the sport than the Superbowl winners then... good luck. The Blue Jays have won the World Series and like I said it's as much a closed shop as any national tournament and the World Series champions doesn't refer to World Champions Completely missing the point read the thread back. Edit: so you think the Rugby world cup is more of a closed shop than the NFL & MLB and they hold more gravitas as "World Champions"
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Post by lordb on Oct 27, 2022 16:37:14 GMT
The World series title has nothing to do with it being a World Championship and the Superbowl is a closed shop? It's for NFL teams the same as say the FA Cup is for the Football league. No more nonsense than any other national tournament The FA Cup winners don't call themselves World Champions. Neither do the World Series winners As explained above it was the newspaper name
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Post by franklin on Oct 27, 2022 16:44:00 GMT
The FA Cup winners don't call themselves World Champions. Neither do the World Series winners As explained above it was the newspaper name Which is disputed so it may or may not be correct which I explained above. Quote: For many years, it was believed that the name came from the fact that the original series was sponsored by the New York World Telegram newspaper, thus becoming known as the ‘World’s Series’. However, popular as this explanation may be, it’s not actually true and although the newspaper did report the results of the games, it had nothing to do with the naming of the competition.
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Post by franklin on Oct 29, 2022 14:11:36 GMT
Dom Young at it again he's a monster.
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Post by Bod on Oct 29, 2022 15:17:41 GMT
If this was Stoke, we’d still find a way to lose this somehow.
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Post by professorplump on Nov 6, 2022 4:33:45 GMT
I watched the NZ vs Fiji match last night. It was a good game and Fiji nearly caused a great upset before running out of steam. I think Australia will beat England in the final.
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Post by thewonderstuff on Nov 6, 2022 18:57:08 GMT
Wow!
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Nov 7, 2022 9:53:53 GMT
Top stuff. Tonga nearly pulled off a last minute win, but not quite enough in the tank. Great atmosphere from all the Polynesians there too.
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Post by Bod on Nov 11, 2022 20:29:43 GMT
Hell of a game tonight. Going to be really interesting to see who has still got any gas left at 65 mins. New Zealand look fluid, Aussie back play is not what it should be. Hopefully it doesn’t come down to a kick late in the game, as NZ’s kicking from the touchline is a concern.
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Post by wuzza on Nov 11, 2022 20:43:42 GMT
Good RL is awesome entertainment and that was very good. Be amazing if the 2nd half can keep it going.
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Post by wuzza on Nov 11, 2022 21:45:17 GMT
How England compete with that level of intensity heaven knows. Stunning game.
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Post by Bod on Nov 11, 2022 21:49:36 GMT
How England compete with that level of intensity heaven knows. Stunning game. They don’t, sadly. Southern Hemisphere has always looked like a different game and even though I actually think this is a decent England side, it would take all the stars to align to make the final and get close to Australia.
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Post by wuzza on Nov 11, 2022 21:59:29 GMT
How England compete with that level of intensity heaven knows. Stunning game. They don’t, sadly. Southern Hemisphere has always looked like a different game and even though I actually think this is a decent England side, it would take all the stars to align to make the final and get close to Australia. You are right. England are actually playing at a decent standard - especially considering SL hasn’t been that great in the past few seasons - but the step up to what was on display tonight is too much.
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Post by franklin on Nov 11, 2022 22:02:55 GMT
I fancy us Australia aren't on top form and we appear to be playing top class stuff.
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