Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:21 pm  

It was against Adelaide where Paul Sterling scored his full length effort at Headingley if I remember rightly.

Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:24 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

I was at a Broncos game at the end of last year and they replayed the London v Canberra game which London won at the Stoop, 20 years to the day I believe. Meninga was coach of the green ,machine, they had Ricky Stewart, Laurie Daly in the halves plus many more stars. I was surprised at just how fast the game was played.

I actually think it's abit of a Myth that the games faster now.

I think the players are bigger and fitter now certainly. But some of the rule changes and lack of regarding the ruck have slowed it down.
Plus from vague memories there was less one man rugby, more offloads. But I could be wrong.

Weren't Canberra one of the big Australian teams back then?

Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:29 am  

Adelaide had the Rams back in the early days of the franchises.

I was there a month ago and there was no interest in bringing them back or on RL at all. Seems a daft move.

Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:03 am  

Steve51 wrote:

Adelaide had the Rams back in the early days of the franchises.

I was there a month ago and there was no interest in bringing them back or on RL at all. Seems a daft move.

Hopefully the SOO game will help revive Rugby League in SA

Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:44 am  

Would be good if one SOO game a year was rotated round Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne. Rugby League needs massive changes to keep itself afloat. Even the NRL has seen a decline in crowds. The sport can't keep plodding along.

Re: A SOO game to be played in Adelaide in 2020 : Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:05 pm  

We (Salford) played the Rams home and away in the 1997 WCC. For some reason I had us down as battering them at home before getting drubbed away but having Googled it we only beat them 14-12 at The Willows! They subsequently stuck 50 points on us in the return game.

A certain Michael Maguire was playing in the centres for them at the time and I remember they had a SH/SO that was about 2ft tall and 4ft wide like Ram Man off He-Man!