[PopTart]

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:38 am  

spegs wrote:

Out with spegsdrinkingbuddy and trying to work out why a team that finished bottom “exceeded expectations “.

How many times did you expect them to win?

[Durham Giant]

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:31 am  

Sad to see them go but they gave it a great go on limited resources. Their coach deserves another shot at SL.

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:18 am  

PopTart wrote:

How many times did you expect them to win?

Not enough to finish above 12th place. The pseudo romance associated with a team that bring nothing to SL is quite amusing

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:24 am  

spegs wrote:

Out with spegsdrinkingbuddy and trying to work out why a team that finished bottom “exceeded expectations “.

With some pundits suggesting that they wouldn't win a game, one victory would have been "exceeding expectations".
They managed 10 wins and are only relegated on points difference.
Yes, they return to the Championship and in the final analysis, this is the same ending that it would have been had they not won a game.
However, with a small budget and equally small squad, they did themselves proud and they will no doubt be pushing for promotion next season.
Mind you, the top of the Championship (excluding Toronto) is tough, with 5/6 genuine promotion candidates, which all makes for an exciting 2020.

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:17 pm  

Spegsdrinkingbuddy wrote:

Lol, trust me I am not jean, I am slightly flattered that you make the comparison as I find him / her amusing, I would never reply to his posts because the joke is instantly on you for doing so, the Leigh fans response to the posts I think get the closest to fire with fire comedy ,I particularly liked the freezing dragon giff , in a world so serious is it really that bad that a bit of humour is shot down, I hope jean is out there and well as he is not a bad person ,just a bit cheeky and dry. I can only reiterate I am a robin and the only facts I can add is would jean know that we used to have an electric scoreboard at the new craven park that was not a lit up electric one but red and white tiles that had a few set images after tries , one was a giraffe with the phrase “things are looking up” and one was an elephant with sunglasses with the phrase” cool try baby”. Could a rovers fan verify this or was it my imagination

to true spegsdrinking buddy

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:20 pm  

Mild mannered Janitor wrote:

He appears not to have changed. Same old Joel. A liability to the club he represents.

ive said the same thing all season MMJ hes been very poor all year tbf no way should he be our captain

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:53 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

With some pundits suggesting that they wouldn't win a game, one victory would have been "exceeding expectations".
They managed 10 wins and are only relegated on points difference.
Yes, they return to the Championship and in the final analysis, this is the same ending that it would have been had they not won a game.
However, with a small budget and equally small squad, they did themselves proud and they will no doubt be pushing for promotion next season.
Mind you, the top of the Championship (excluding Toronto) is tough, with 5/6 genuine promotion candidates, which all makes for an exciting 2020.

London have lost about 7 players for their squad for next season, but no doubt will replace them them with mainly academy players

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:32 pm  

So Cunningham, who was accused of racial abuse during the Hull KR game has been referred to tribunal on the 16th.

Why was this not done before the Wakey game?

If nothing else this is very poor from the RFL. At worst it looks like they bent the rules as much as possible to keep London in SL.

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:41 pm  

Maybe he's requested legal representation in the same way Hardaker did over his homophobic comments. I think that hearing was delayed too.

Re: London , thanks for the memories : Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:47 pm  

Frankly, as a Wakefield fan, I have no happy memories of London.