That fake northern rugby want to charge holders to enter their competition?

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See that the Rugby Football League want to charge Catalans £500k to enter the Challenge Cup because the crowds were down last year when they won the competition??

Madness!!

I hope all the other clubs boycott the competition until this request is withdrawn.
 
The rugby league were happy for the Catalans to play as it helped grow the game elsewhere. Now they want to charge them half a million. It is like saying to Leicester your not in the champs league coz you don't have 50K crowds.
 
Ridiculous and smacks of a "my ball" and bitterness they won and took the cup abroad. Sadly I doubt they'll get much support from any of the other sides but hope common sense can prevail. Makes the RFL look stupid
 
RFL are losing the plot.

Trying to grow the game outside its heartlands and then penalising those teams.

Toronto Wolf Pack and Toulouse have also declined to enter as they are in the same boat although Red Star Belgrade do not have to pay as they are amateurs.

Game is in a mess as it is with the talant drain to Union and the ARL so this doesn't help.
 
Robster59 said:
Of course they do. In the Six Nations for starters.
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Rugby League is a regional anomaly of a sport. I do like watching the odd game and it is still miles better than football. Rugby Union is by far and away the dominant code in all facets (participation/finance/support etc.)
This decision though is laughable and will only harm the game.
 
Whilst were on about RL and ave 5 mins spare. I grew up two mins from Rochdake hirnets old ground. I never followed it coz i was a nipper. Mover in 1970 and forgot about rugby league. During the miners strike. I was at Orgreave where it priper kicked off between police and pickets. It was violence on a scale ad never seen. Anyway at half time between the lorry runs. The puckets started playing tag rugby. About a 100 a side. I was meamerised. An hour later the fighting started again. Never forget that game.
 
Captainron said:
Rugby League is a regional anomaly of a sport. I do like watching the odd game and it is still miles better than football. Rugby Union is by far and away the dominant code in all facets (participation/finance/support etc.)
This decision though is laughable and will only harm the game.
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Seriously, why open a thread with " fake northern rugby" and then take offence when someone has a pop back at union?

Was it just so you could come back with how superior you are to this "sporting regional anomaly".

If union is "so dominant in all facets" why are the the coaches of this "fake northern rugby" so much in demand, what can they possibly have to offer?

How can "fake northern rugby" players that transfer to "the dominant code" usually manage the very highest levels of the club game if not England itself?

"Fake northern rugby" must have something going for it if in such a short time its players can out perform 99.9% of the superior codes participants, don't you think?

Yes, you've more money though I'm lead to believe the combined debts of your premiership clubs are eye watering.

Though from what I've just been reading your game seems to be on the way to tearing itself apart at professional level.

Oh, and finally, having played "this regional anomaly" at the very lowest levels I can assure you there's nothing fake about it.

Still, I agree with you about Catalans, terrible decision, best hope they don't make the Grand Final.
 
Captainron said:
See that the Rugby Football League want to charge Catalans £500k to enter the Challenge Cup because the crowds were down last year when they won the competition??

Madness!!

I hope all the other clubs boycott the competition until this request is withdrawn.
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As I understand it it's a 500k deposit against the risk of lost earnings for the RFL. Last year's final had one of the lowest crowds for many years because Catalans were in it and obviously didn't bring as many fans as a UK club would have done. This meant that the RFL lost money on ticket sales for the final. To cover themselves they RFL have said that you can enter our competition but we don't want you to do well in it again because that costs us money, so if you do then it'll cost you 500k.

Totally agree with all the other posts criticising this decision.
 
Captainron said:
Rugby League is a regional anomaly of a sport. I do like watching the odd game and it is still miles better than football. Rugby Union is by far and away the dominant code in all facets (participation/finance/support etc.)
This decision though is laughable and will only harm the game.
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I like how all the facets you list have nothing to do with the actual product on the pitch Cam 😉

Think you have been fairly selective there as Rugby League wipes the floor with Union in the vast majority of core skills.

The game of union has progressed so much over the last 20 years and is a million miles away from the fat knackers of the past. Watching gusscot, carling et all was like watching a league open age side pre pub session.

These days it’s a different game.

Wonder if that’s because you have basically every ex Wigan school boy in senior coaching positions 🤔😉

Agree on the RFL criticism though.

That lot are fundamentals to blame for the widening gulf between the codes.

Flat cap wearing jobs for the boys.
 
Use to go and watch it when Fulham had a team. Enjoyed it even if I wasn't fully compliant with the rules and nuances of the game. As a sport I enjoy it and in the same way union has moved on and become faster and more physical so has rugby league and the game and the speed of both codes is so much quicker. The RFL have really "knocked on" with this decision and if Catalan don't get support and don't enter as holders surely it devalues the whole thing
 
Vikingman said:
Seriously, why open a thread with " fake northern rugby" and then take offence when someone has a pop back at union?

Was it just so you could come back with how superior you are to this "sporting regional anomaly".

If union is "so dominant in all facets" why are the the coaches of this "fake northern rugby" so much in demand, what can they possibly have to offer?

How can "fake northern rugby" players that transfer to "the dominant code" usually manage the very highest levels of the club game if not England itself?

"Fake northern rugby" must have something going for it if in such a short time its players can out perform 99.9% of the superior codes participants, don't you think?

Yes, you've more money though I'm lead to believe the combined debts of your premiership clubs are eye watering.

Though from what I've just been reading your game seems to be on the way to tearing itself apart at professional level.

Oh, and finally, having played "this regional anomaly" at the very lowest levels I can assure you there's nothing fake about it.

Still, I agree with you about Catalans, terrible decision, best hope they don't make the Grand Final.
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I can assure you that no offence was taken at the banter on this thread.

I happen to be good mates with a load of forumers from the North and it’s just light hearted ribbing about each code. I lived in Leeds for 13 years and went to Rhinos games regularly and enjoyed them.
My mates up there called union kick and clap, pile on etc etc. Constantly on about League beein greatest game int world and we would have arguments about it all night in the pub and then agree that both games were great. I call league fake northern rugby because it’s not union and it’s played in the north.
Don’t get all upset about it
 
tugglesf239 said:
I like how all the facets you list have nothing to do with the actual product on the pitch Cam 😉

Think you have been fairly selective there as Rugby League wipes the floor with Union in the vast majority of core skills.

The game of union has progressed so much over the last 20 years and is a million miles away from the fat knackers of the past. Watching gusscot, carling et all was like watching a league open age side pre pub session.

These days it’s a different game.

Wonder if that’s because you have basically every ex Wigan school boy in senior coaching positions 🤔😉

Agree on the RFL criticism though.

That lot are fundamentals to blame for the widening gulf between the codes.

Flat cap wearing jobs for the boys.
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No doubt your coaches have some of the best defensive patterns going and that’s why union wants them. They also move though don’t they? Money and the big stage help in that regard?
League players are also fitter on the whole I think.
 
Vikingman said:
Seriously, why open a thread with " fake northern rugby" and then take offence when someone has a pop back at union?

Was it just so you could come back with how superior you are to this "sporting regional anomaly".

If union is "so dominant in all facets" why are the the coaches of this "fake northern rugby" so much in demand, what can they possibly have to offer?

How can "fake northern rugby" players that transfer to "the dominant code" usually manage the very highest levels of the club game if not England itself?

"Fake northern rugby" must have something going for it if in such a short time its players can out perform 99.9% of the superior codes participants, don't you think?

Yes, you've more money though I'm lead to believe the combined debts of your premiership clubs are eye watering.

Though from what I've just been reading your game seems to be on the way to tearing itself apart at professional level.

Oh, and finally, having played "this regional anomaly" at the very lowest levels I can assure you there's nothing fake about it.

Still, I agree with you about Catalans, terrible decision, best hope they don't make the Grand Final.
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Oh and I call ballax on the outperform part of your argument.
Very very few league players have made it at international level

I make it 3 that have actually set the world alight

Robinson
Falau
Sonny Bill

Too many flops to name but two stand out donkeys were

Burgess and old man Farrell (but he is a good coach)
 
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