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Starbug wrote:And the point of that would be what ?
You wouldn't be plugging up the Crusaders' boards with vitriol. You'd be writing to the very people you say you have a problem with instead, thus allowing the Crusaders fans to get on with their chat without being trolled to death.
Joined: Mar 09 2004 Posts: 33944 Location: watching out for low flying geese
SaintsFan wrote:You wouldn't be plugging up the Crusaders' boards with vitriol. You'd be writing to the very people you say you have a problem with instead, thus allowing the Crusaders fans to get on with their chat without being trolled to death.
And you think they would reply ?
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SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Joined: Jul 22 2008 Posts: 16170 Location: Somewhere other than here
Starbug wrote:And you think they would reply ?
They might do. You won't know unless you try. And think. If all the so-called dissenters on here - or the 90% of them you refer to - emailed the RFL en masse then they would be blitzed by emails. cc Sky and you'd be laughing.
And meanwhile, the Crusaders fans could just get on with chatting about their club without being buried by trolls. Which I'm sure the fans of Leigh and every other club would prefer for their own boards.
Joined: Mar 09 2004 Posts: 33944 Location: watching out for low flying geese
SaintsFan wrote:They might do. You won't know unless you try. And think. If all the so-called dissenters on here - or the 90% of them you refer to - emailed the RFL en masse then they would be blitzed by emails. cc Sky and you'd be laughing.
And meanwhile, the Crusaders fans could just get on with chatting about their club without being buried by trolls. Which I'm sure the fans of Leigh and every other club would prefer for their own boards.
It would get a bit boring for them , it would be much easier just to chat across the room while having a brew
Look I'm kidding ok
kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Joined: Feb 25 2004 Posts: 2874 Location: Sometimes Workington, Sometimes Warrington, Often on the M6
jannerboyuk wrote:c'mon dude. 20 years in sport is a starting point. I got grief somewhere else for saying ten years - thats a blink of an eye. Sports develop in generations. Did Cumbria and castleford get up to speed in 2 minutes. .
Workington were the League Champions in only their 5th year, and won the Challenge Cup in their 7th year. HTH.
Derwent wrote:They entered the RL Championship in 1945 at the end of the war and won it in 1950/51 season.
Prior to that there had been no professional RL anywhere in Cumberland. Workington were the first club and Whitehaven joined the league in 1948.
Barrow had of course existed before then but Barrow was in Lancashire until 1974.
what was the amateur scene like prior to that? had any foriegn teams toured? Genuinely interested. Are there are any cumbria rugby league histories knocking about?
Joined: Apr 18 2006 Posts: 5870 Location: God's little green acre - Widnes!
Derwent wrote:Workington were the League Champions in only their 5th year, and won the Challenge Cup in their 7th year. HTH.
My Dad reckons they were one of the greatest teams to play the game of Rugby League he ever saw.
On thread drift:
tb wrote:Tough. Conversations develop. It's their nature.
Little Pepe went to nursery school one day wearing his Widnes hat. His teacher asked him why he was a Widnes fan. He said, “Because my parents are.” His teacher said, “That’s not good. What would you do if your parents were drug dealers and hookers?” He replied, “Well then I would be a Warrington fan.”
There's a Wooly over there, baggy kecks and feathered hair with a 3 star jumper half way up his back, that’s a fecking Wooly back! Oooh-to… Oooh-to-be… Oooh-to-be-a… WOOLY!
The problem with growing old is, what people today call history, you remember as yesterday. You talk about Workington in the late forties, and who led it? None other than Gus Risman born in Cardiff. He recruited ' Ginger' Hughes from Barrow to organise the forwards. Hughes came from Llanelli, and had a son called Emlyn-average footballer I believe.
Buy 'The 'Indomitables' it covers the '46 tour of Australia and New Zealand published by London League publications. It gives you the state of the game at the end of the war, and there are pen pictutes of all players who took part.
There were often up to ten Welshmen in a side of the top rugby league teams in the forties. By the way we used to beat overseas teams at that time. A very good reason for having a Welsh team in the league.
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