Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:34 am  

MattyB wrote:

Next years Challenge Cup games....will they be allowed to to play at home (if drawn)?

arent they changing the structure of the challenge cup anyway?

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:37 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

arent they changing the structure of the challenge cup anyway?

First I've heard of this. Anyone else know anything?

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:52 pm  

I can't see the structure of the challenge cup changing until the structure of Super League does which looks like it may be 2018.

On a different note, Warrington and Wigan organising pre-season friendlies with NRL clubs casts doubt on the World Club Challenge/Series.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:16 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

I can't see the structure of the challenge cup changing until the structure of Super League does which looks like it may be 2018.

On a different note, Warrington and Wigan organising pre-season friendlies with NRL clubs casts doubt on the World Club Challenge/Series.

Depends on how it's done. They might just follow football's example and have a small pre-season tour there. I for one encourage it, the more our teams play against the Aussies the more we will learn.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Sat Jul 22, 2017 1:23 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

I can't see the structure of the challenge cup changing until the structure of Super League does which looks like it may be 2018.

On a different note, Warrington and Wigan organising pre-season friendlies with NRL clubs casts doubt on the World Club Challenge/Series.

Don't you mean Hull and Wigan?

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Aug 01, 2017 6:44 am  

Having just watched some of the Toronto highlights (from their website), the crowd looked way smaller than 7000 ?, maybe a couple of thousand at the most.
Are they counting "members" or actual attendances ?

Also, in the context of what has gone before, the defeat against York was one hell of a shock.

Without being too disrespectful to York, Toronto should be all over them with their squad.
Did they rest players or just have a bad day at the office ?

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Aug 01, 2017 12:29 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Having just watched some of the Toronto highlights (from their website), the crowd looked way smaller than 7000 ?, maybe a couple of thousand at the most.
Are they counting "members" or actual attendances ?

Also, in the context of what has gone before, the defeat against York was one hell of a shock.

Without being too disrespectful to York, Toronto should be all over them with their squad.
Did they rest players or just have a bad day at the office ?

thought same when i watched them too, didnt look like 7k to me.

Toronto loss to york doesnt mean much they will still go up, toulouse did a similar thing last season.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:03 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Having just watched some of the Toronto highlights (from their website), the crowd looked way smaller than 7000 ?, maybe a couple of thousand at the most.
Are they counting "members" or actual attendances ?

Also, in the context of what has gone before, the defeat against York was one hell of a shock.

Without being too disrespectful to York, Toronto should be all over them with their squad.
Did they rest players or just have a bad day at the office ?

Well who knows how many the stand holds where they are filming from. Canadians have a tendency to turn up later in the game rather than get there for kickoff. I've watched every single one of Toronto's games on Premier Sports and I was shocked how empty the ground looked in the 10th minute but then by the 60th minute it looked really full! And they will count season ticket holders just like every other cub does.

Yes the York defeat was a shock but York played extremely well! Some fantastic rugby on show from them, they kept their discipline and Toronto did not hence the two sin bins from two team warnings. York coach must get a lot of praise too from taking points from their 64-22 loss in Toronto and using that to learn for this game.

You are right Toronto should have won and nope, no resting players. Toronto had a full team out minus the injured Andrew Dixon, Gary Wheeler, Sean Penkywicz and Ryan Bailey.

TORONTO - Quentin Togaga'e, Jonny Pownall, Greg Worthington, Craig Hall, Liam Kay, Blake Wallace, Ryan Brierley, Adam Sidlow, Bob Beswick, Jake Emmitt, James Laithwaite, Richard Whiting, Jack Bussey.

SUBS - Rhys Jacks, Fuifui Moimoi, Shaun Pick, Steve Crossley.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:15 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

thought same when i watched them too, didnt look like 7k to me.

Toronto loss to york doesnt mean much they will still go up, toulouse did a similar thing last season.

Am I missing something, the game was played at York.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:23 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

You are right Toronto should have won and nope, no resting players. Toronto had a full team out minus the injured Andrew Dixon, Gary Wheeler, Sean Penkywicz and Ryan Bailey..

What's Gary Wheeler's appearance record been like at Toronto? Has he managed to put a run of games together finally?