Joined: Mar 22 2009 Posts: 1200 Location: South Wales
northernbloke wrote:Well have you ever seen a ref knock on? Or one be offside! Just a thought!
What kind of answer is that? Perhaps that's where we've been going wrong, expecting the ref to get decisions right rather than being able to play the game. Hope you had a bit more of a sensible approach when speaking to players who dared question a decision of the ref.
I swear to god NB is simply a wind-up merchant! He is the only person defending the referee, whilst others, who rarely post criticism of the referee are adamant that he was pants. I wasn't there, but I have seen the challenge on social media and even a relative newbie like me can see that the challenge was illegal and the consequences potentially lethal and therefore, regardless of some pipe-dream defense about "playing advantage", the Ref should have immediately blown and the tackler should have been shown Red. Instead, it took London players getting stuck in for anything to happen and as a result we were down 2 men to their one, as a direct result of their foul play and an inadequate referee.
JESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them.
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