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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:45 am  
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The more I look into this the less sceptical I am.

1: Not much football in Cornwall.

2: Surprising number of well-run clubs in the South West, a Mecca of RL compared to Ottawa. Probably around 3-400 junior and senior players doing the rounds, not huge but a start.

Devon Sharks, Exeter Centurions, North Devon Raiders, Plymouth Titans, Somerset Vikings and of course Cornwall Rebels (AKA Cornwall RLFC) the parent club.

3: Rugby Union is the main sport, but, the Cornish and the RFU have a fractious relationship, not dissimilar to our own during the great schism. Converting people to watching RL may be relatively easy if done well. Ditto the players, many Cornish players consider themselves overlooked, perfect conditions to convert.

4: A place to go. Cornwall is one of the few destinations in the UK that will get RL fans to make a 'weekend' of it. So away support should be good, this in turn also attracts sponsors as it did in Catalan.

It's still a long shot but compared to the Canada fiasco it's one I'm happy to back whenever I can.

Best of luck and I hope the RFL doesn't mess it up.


Despite my comments, and those of others Vasty I think we're all for it, and I sincerely hope it works. I agree not much local professional sport to compete with, but the crucial bit for me is the last comment you make. The RFL can't just expect it to gel in a foreign part, so to speak, they will need to give a lot of support to make it happen. I hope it does.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:10 am  
It's a big area to go at.
Union is pretty strong there so there are clearly players who want to play contact sports.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:25 am  
You cannot be surprised at the response the venture will receive. RL is encumbered by dour and negative minds that want things to fail and seem happy when it does, plenty spend time on here. Fortunately, not all have woken up yet.
We will get some idea in the coming months in terms of media profile and response but the name is a good move giving regional identity. Plenty of old mining villages, albeit tin! More publicity for the game and with a pool of local talent playing RU, who knows what will happen.
Best of luck. Away in the Challenge Cup would be excellent.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:48 am  
I hope it works but it’s not fast track them into the super league till at least 10 years or longer build some solid foundations
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:27 pm  
I agree with lots of comments, even understand the anti’s beliefs. Cornwall is all Union and cricket along with obviously lots of water sports.
The thing is there are 10’s of thousands of us northerners down here living in Cornwall and a lot I talk to who supports other teams. We aren’t ever going to be weekly attendants at our chosen clubs so there’s a lot of us who want to see games and games against teams we were brought up with so there is a good chance of getting people already league supporters.
The good thing I see also is that a lot of Union clubs down here are already developing young athletes and won’t take a lot of them trying a new version of rugby to then have hopefully a good amount of Cornish locals platings in their squad. Obviously it won’t happen over night and is all down to how it’s promoted in the county and how much the owners will be willing to get into the community pushing for it.
Lie I said, my son played for Truro for a while and playing league in training wasn’t unfamiliar as they seem to have a respect for it that other Union areas do not.
Anyway as ever what happens is what happens and I’ll be there just glad to see some live games regularly again.
Cornish rebels was the amateur league team down here playing out of Redruth Union ground. Again could you see sandal Union club welcoming criglestone to play on their ground weekly? I doubt it, but I think that’s the difference down here it’s not quite as ingrained to be anti league.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:18 pm  
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Won't last 2 never mind 5 This is another white elephant ! Which players are going to play down there ? They are going to have to start off with players from the north who can't get a game up here, And after a couple of round trips of 12 + hours traveling with a game in between won't be long before they get fed up, and training wheres that going to be held if say half the squad are based down south and half up north! Remember the team south wales rl 1995 think it lasted 2 seasons if that , this is another 150 miles further on IT WILL NOT WORK.


I hope it works, but I've no faith in the RFL when it comes to expansion. It requires a long term vision, and this seems to have been thought up on a whim. And I don't know how they expect to recruit part time players from the north. Will they be expected to travel down for training after work and again on game day? As with all the other projects, I just can't see it working.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:38 pm  
Only had a brief scan of the reaction about CRLFC, and had to laugh at a lot of the scepticism from the RL journo's, particularly citing the travelling time as an obvious hindrance, yet they were pretty much united in their dismay regarding the fall of Toronto.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:00 pm  
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Won't last 2 never mind 5 This is another white elephant ! Which players are going to play down there ? They are going to have to start off with players from the north who can't get a game up here, And after a couple of round trips of 12 + hours traveling with a game in between won't be long before they get fed up, and training wheres that going to be held if say half the squad are based down south and half up north! Remember the team south wales rl 1995 think it lasted 2 seasons if that , this is another 150 miles further on IT WILL NOT WORK.


Yet fans are quite happy to travel the 1000+ miles to Perpignan each season??
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:46 pm  
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I hope it works, but I've no faith in the RFL when it comes to expansion. It requires a long term vision, and this seems to have been thought up on a whim. And I don't know how they expect to recruit part time players from the north. Will they be expected to travel down for training after work and again on game day? As with all the other projects, I just can't see it working.


I think you and a few others need to read the press release more carefully. That’s not a dig but you’ve clearly missed where the new owner has stated very clearly that the team will be overwhelmingly made up of Cornishmen from day one. Organic growth is the aim and there is no rush or wish to be side tracked. I honestly don’t think he could have made it clearer.

I to am a sceptic regarding the RFL and expansion but every new venture should be judged on its individual merits. We can’t throw the baby out with the bath water just because of past failures. It’s a long shot as all these things are but if the owners are to be believed this one has its merits.
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Re: Cornwall Rugby League Club : Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:21 pm  
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I think you and a few others need to read the press release more carefully. That’s not a dig but you’ve clearly missed where the new owner has stated very clearly that the team will be overwhelmingly made up of Cornishmen from day one. Organic growth is the aim and there is no rush or wish to be side tracked. I honestly don’t think he could have made it clearer.

I to am a sceptic regarding the RFL and expansion but every new venture should be judged on its individual merits. We can’t throw the baby out with the bath water just because of past failures. It’s a long shot as all these things are but if the owners are to be believed this one has its merits.


There’s an interview been done today that says they’ll need players from the north. Not a chance of them going with 25 local players, they’ll get annihilated.

The more I think about, the less likely I think they are to even start next season.
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