Lopag is a no no !! He doesn't train with the 1st team anymore and hasn't for 3 months now. He now is a part time player training on an evening. His form in the reserves is poor as well mainly due i think to the club not renewing his contract at the end of the season.
Anyone who has watched the reserves will see that, i think NL1 or NL2 beckons for him if he wants to play at that level. Such a shame considering the enormous potential he had between 10 - 15 years old. He hasn't moved on physically or skills wise.
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Halifax Wildcat wrote:Such a shame considering the enormous potential he had between 10 - 15 years old. He hasn't moved on physically or skills wise.
Maybe a reason for this is that he played from 8 years old to 16 years old at Deighton, King Cross, Calderdale Service Area, for Yorkshire & England as a Centre. The Giants said that they thought he would make a better winger so he never gets the ball and loses interest. This is just my opinion but I did follow Richard a lot from his days at Deighton all the way through to Deighton folding in I think 2003. The fact that he was then banned from playing Club Rugby for 3 years due to the stupidity of the West Riding Youth League and BARLA. This for nothing that he had done wrong other than being an excellent player who the WRYL did not want to play for a club which would benefit from his services.
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Big Stuart wrote:Maybe a reason for this is that he played from 8 years old to 16 years old at Deighton, King Cross, Calderdale Service Area, for Yorkshire & England as a Centre. The Giants said that they thought he would make a better winger so he never gets the ball and loses interest. This is just my opinion but I did follow Richard a lot from his days at Deighton all the way through to Deighton folding in I think 2003. The fact that he was then banned from playing Club Rugby for 3 years due to the stupidity of the West Riding Youth League and BARLA. This for nothing that he had done wrong other than being an excellent player who the WRYL did not want to play for a club which would benefit from his services.
The reason he was stopped from playing was because he wanted to sign for King Cross. At the time King Cross hadn a large proportion of its squad in the service areas. WRYL and BARLA rules stipulated that you could only have "x" number of service area players in your squad. This was to stop the formation of "super" clubs which could (in theory) have 17 players from the service areas thus creating an unfair advantage to opposing teams.
Had Richard wanted to play he could have joined one of several teams in his area. Siddal, Brighouse, Ovenden, Illingworth, Stainland and Elland all had teams to accomidate him.
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Gahan wrote:Doesnt detract from the fact that the West Riding Youth League are idiots.
No comment!
Sing a song of Yorkshire, from the Humber to the Tees Of cricket, rugby, beer, of pudding and of cheese I know no other county where the land is quite so fine England's lovely county. And I'm proud to call it mine
Where shining purple heather stretches far across the moor And the lapwing's cry above me takes the place of traffic roar And peace comes drifting gently, there's no place I'd rather be Than this land of hills and valleys, from the Pennines to the sea
So when I've done my roaming, and when my step grows slow When heart and mind assure me that the time has come to go Then let me rest in Yorkshire, for its there I want to lie 'Neath sun and wind and heather... and a gleaming Yorkshire sky
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i would put out a strong first team and hopefully get them to get back to basics, noticeably, catching the bloody ball, trying to complete sets, and not giving stupid penalties away.
we should win the game easily but i would settle for a solid, no nonsense, improved performance to remember how to do the basics
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