: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:23 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

Not having a go at Cas as they are a traditional heartlands club but are they really what the future of RL is all about.

Forget tradition, forget history(why you ask), the future of RL is about clubs spread far and wide in modern stadiums with big crowds.

Has a smallish town in Yorkshire surrounded by other RL teams got that potential?

If you compare RL with football traditional teams have dropped divisions over time and the game has moved on. Big crowds, nice stadiums , plenty of sponsorship etc That is the blue print for success in the premier league

I really cant see the likes of Hudds, Cas, Wakey etc all being in the top league in the future. Maybe this time, but longer term, I'm not sure

We may disappear as well, who knows where the game will go.

That's dumb. Cas are a great club and offer loads to the game, so what if they're in a small town in Yorkshire? Their support spreads a long way further than the borders of the town anyway and there are plenty of smallish towns in top level soccerball. Blackburn's hardly a metropolis, neither's Portsmouth. A good club's a good club. And Cas is definitely one of them.

: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:55 pm  

We will see the RFL's vision for the future on Tue. Everything else is opinion and conjecture

: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:40 am  

wire-quin wrote:

We will see the RFL's vision for the future on Tue. Everything else is opinion and conjecture

Which makes it much more fun

: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:09 am  

wire-quin wrote:

We will see the RFL's vision for the future on Tue. Everything else is opinion and conjecture

No we won't we'll see something between their vision for the future and an appeasement of the northern heartland's clubs feelings.

: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:35 pm  

Just a topic for discussion, but how much does th RFL and SL owe French Rugby League? I think there is both a duty and an advantage to help bring the French gane up to top class standard, but maybe that's fulfilled by Catalans. As such, I don't think that Toulouse should be in the mix on Tuesday.

: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:08 pm  

Anyone think Mr Dorn read some of the b0110cks written here? Anyone still think he isn't good enough?

: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:38 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Anyone think Mr Dorn read some of the b0110cks written here? Anyone still think he isn't good enough?

There were calls from a number of people to "sign him on"

Don't know why they want him on job-seekers allowance, surely a "sign him up" would have been a better chant for a man who grabbed a hat-trick.

: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:39 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Anyone think Mr Dorn read some of the b0110cks written here? Anyone still think he isn't good enough?

Yep. Not for what we are after. We don't need a support player. And running around Melling in the form he was in was no great feat. I could probably beat him after 10 pints and a kebab.

: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:43 pm  

Londo06 wrote:

There were calls from a number of people to "sign him on"

Word on the street is that he has already!

: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:46 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Yep. Not for what we are after. We don't need a support player. And running around Melling in the form he was in was no great feat. I could probably beat him after 10 pints and a kebab.

Melling's performance was woeful.
And the excuse of just coming back from injury, is no excuse.
Alot of the time, he is able to keep up with the attacking player.. But then his decision making skills lets him down.
He tries to push the person out, and really he should just tackle the man.
And some of the breaks Castleford made, they got to Melling, and ran straight round him, with almost no effort at all.
Woeful performance.
Glad Ricky's back for Bradford, we need him for Full back.

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The ones that saw Mark today, was it just me, or is he starting to gain back his bulk again?
Before he looked so skinny, but now hes started building it back up?
or is it just me?