Joined: Jan 21 2009 Posts: 2899 Location: Wembley block 514
We need London in Super League but just isn't enough interest in London. On another note went to watch North Wales Crusaders against Barrow today and was over 1500 there. Good game aswell Crusaders should have won but lost 26-24
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Beeston_Loiner wrote:I'll go for Warrington are SH1T3! and Leeds are gonna make 'em look silly like we do to all the Pretenders in Finals..... 64th Minute when the Pressure starts to tell on the Useless TW@!
Been a while since the RFL bailing them out tripe has been trotted out. Could someone please explain when and what happened?
Me: I'm still reeling from the news that someone is considering watching the 1st and 3rd game on Saturday and NOT watching Warrington play. It's like being in Shea Stadium when the Beatles came to town and deciding to nip out for a fag.
knockersbumpMKII: Is it FOOK, you're good but you're not THAT good, jesus you wanky fans need to get over yourselves, Beatles at the Shea in '65 was a once in a lifetime opportunity for some (despite the following years performance), you can watch a very good team in primrose & yellow play every week if you really wanted to but comparing it to one of the very best music groups of all time in an iconic stadia such as the shea is overegging your importance, you're not even the best team in SL atm
Joined: Oct 14 2004 Posts: 12106 Location: The Middle of the Land
If they and the Skolars continue the work they're doing to expand grass roots participation down there then I'll be happy. A mate of mine teaches in London and told me that RL is now the 2nd biggest sport in London's schools in terms of numbers participating. Obviously I wouldn't rely on his word as evidence (he may also have been drinking) but there does seem to be a lot of anecdotal evidence that they've got a lot of kids playing RL down there.
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sally cinnamon wrote:I think as a club London Broncos is heading for extinction but they may struggle along for a few more years.
For the first 10 years of SL they were reasonably successful on the field, usually mid table playoff contenders, with some good players, but since Tony Rea left in 2006 they have been in decline and so have their gates, they had average gates of 4600 in 2006 but since then its been creeping down towards the 3000 mark.
There will always be a few die hards there but there's no real market for rugby league down there and the whole project of a London franchise is running out of steam.
As far as 'expansion' teams go Catalans have left London for dead, they have always been around 7000-8000 crowds mainly made up of home supporters as its expensive for away fans to travel, the difference is there's a market for RL in the south of France, there isn't a market for RL in the south of England.
You do know that Catalans is not an expansion team.
Playing devils advocate, millions of kids playing it at school means Jack sh*t, everyone i went to school with and all the surrounding schools in my area, possibly every school in GB play Badminton.
Name me the British No.1 Badminton player without google search?
How many people buy tickets to watch Badminton matches?
Colin_Fishwick wrote:Super League would then be a much stronger competition and most games would be entertaining and of higher intensity rather than the majority of one sided dull affairs we have now.
I can't doubt the theory of less top flight teams with the same available player pool should = a stronger competition. It makes perfect sense.
My only quibble is that the evidence doesn't back the statement up - we had a 12 team Super League in 1996-1998, and 2000-2008. I don't really recall those seasons being particularly stronger, in fact we still had teams at the bottom of the league getting severe pastings (and in 2002 one of those teams were us).
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Joined: Oct 14 2004 Posts: 12106 Location: The Middle of the Land
Horatio Yed wrote:Playing devils advocate, millions of kids playing it at school means Jack sh*t, everyone i went to school with and all the surrounding schools in my area, possibly every school in GB play Badminton.
Name me the British No.1 Badminton player without google search?
How many people buy tickets to watch Badminton matches?
I only played badminton in PE, because I had to. Even then, it was probably about 3 times. These kids are most often doing it as an after school activity. We certainly didn't have a badminton team at my school.
No idea who the top UK player is (and I fail to see the relevance) but I do recall we won medals at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics (doubles I think on both occasions). I would expect several thousand people have bought tickets to watch badminton in London this summer...
If you don't have junior participation, where will your senior players come from? If you have no junior system in a city of 10 million people, how many possible professional players will be missed out on because there was no RL for them to play? In my book anything that broadens the talent pool we pull our players into the pro ranks from is a good thing. If there are talented youngsters in London (which there are) how likely are they to up sticks and move to an academy in the north as school-age kids?
Horatio Yed wrote:Playing devils advocate, millions of kids playing it at school means Jack sh*t, everyone i went to school with and all the surrounding schools in my area, possibly every school in GB play Badminton.
Name me the British No.1 Badminton player without google search?
How many people buy tickets to watch Badminton matches?
Exactly - in the USA more kids and students play soccer than play American football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey etc, but the US soccer league is still a million miles behind those.
And haven't we been hearing about all these 'superbly talented youngsters' in London for about 15 years?
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sally cinnamon wrote:Exactly - in the USA more kids and students play soccer than play American football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey etc, but the US soccer league is still a million miles behind those.
And haven't we been hearing about all these 'superbly talented youngsters' in London for about 15 years?
Didn't the US soccer team beat italy last month (for the first tim ever)
If that isn't improvement, I don't know what is!
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