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 Post subject: Re: Oldham 100 West Wales Raiders 4
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:39 pm 
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Teams like this have had long enough to get there act into gear.
It's just so the rugby league can say they have a team in South Wales.
Cornwall will go the same way.
It doesn't attract support and it only gets media exposure for the wrong reason.
What is the cost for away teams to travel these distances?
In a time when less money is distributed to league 1 how can we expect players who work to give up there time for a meaningless game.
Surely the likes of Sidal and other top amateur teams would be more beneficial to our sport

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 Post subject: Re: Oldham 100 West Wales Raiders 4
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:52 am 
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Amateur teams along the M62 corridor, and Cumbria have had the best part of 100 years to step up, and turn (semi) pro and expand the competition.

So why, in the main, don't they bother ?

Which Northern amateur clubs have been denied the opportunity to step up to allow Cornwall, Toulouse, London Skolars, Coventry Hurricane, North & West Wales and Newcastle to be in the league (I'm not just after a list of names of great amateur clubs - just the ones who actually applied and had their applications rejected in favour of those other clubs) ?

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 Post subject: Re: Oldham 100 West Wales Raiders 4
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:34 am 
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I am an out and out expansionist. But when we roll out utter absurd clubs like Cornwall then I can see why traditionalists think the game has gone mad. We've had short lived clubs all over the place but I can't think any of them have been as daft as that.

In terms of South and West Wales. Rugby is in their DNA but I do wonder if the only way its ever going to work is if a pro Union club set up an RL arm in the same vein as the Leeds cross-code model. They get to sweat their primary asset (their ground) so it's used year round, and tap into more Rugby players.






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 Post subject: Re: Oldham 100 West Wales Raiders 4
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:26 pm 
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dddooommm wrote:I know that they've struggled to raise a side at certain points during previous seasons. I don't blame them. If you're working full time all week and have a family, you're sacrificing an entire day to travel to and from the game. Perhaps if the games were somewhat competitive instead of these complete annihilations it maybe more appealing to some players. They're doing it tough at the moment after yesterdays game at Oldham.

What happened to the Gavin Henson signing? Did he play one game and then retire again?


Gav found that he simply wasn't fit enough, even for this level. He fully admitted it after the game.

It's not that he's some young pup trying the game out. He's the wrong side of 35 years old, pushing 40.
Maybe he realised that he'd never be fit enough, even for a League 1 run out.

Scott Gibbs pointed out, when he returned to RU, that even playing lower league RL teams require fitness, that you're going to get tackled and that's going to take its toll on you.

Two interesting fixtures will be when West Wales take on Cornwall.

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 Post subject: Re: Oldham 100 West Wales Raiders 4
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:49 pm 
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Well it's just a leisurely 220 miles each way from Bridgend to Penryn....

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