Re: Taxi for Chester? : Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:06 pm  

On the face of it we should be in with a good chance of victory tomorrow. We are at home, the squad is not as bad as predicted, Catalan will have flown in on the day and they lost at home last week.

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:27 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

On the face of it we should be in with a good chance of victory tomorrow. We are at home, the squad is not as bad as predicted, Catalan will have flown in on the day and they lost at home last week.

I honestly think we will win

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:34 pm  

I didn’t say that, history indicates probably not.

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:13 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

RL in the UK is going down the pan.
The new TV deal is bloody awful, a 25/30% cut and that's not taking account of inflation over the last 5 years.
Where the sport will be in 10 years looks scary, especially when yo factor in the lack of junior rugby and the very likely further drop in numbers when the game gets going again (primarily due to covid).

Your right there, the game is in a right state and the powers that be just seem to bury their heads in the sand or are completely oblivious to what is going on. Junior and open age teams going to the wall every season, pro teams having to make decisions on young players at 18/19 when they have left the academy with their bodies not yet developed and no A team structure to drop in to. When you get teams in Wakefield/ cas and fev struggling for numbers and teams like west Hull struggling to exist your in serious bother. The scouts are scrapping for the odd good player and are even turning up to games with 12v 11. The level of knowledge about the game is not there anymore in fact you don’t drive past parks or fields and see kids throwing a ball about anymore. Challenging times ahead

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Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:29 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

RL in the UK is going down the pan.
The new TV deal is bloody awful, a 25/30% cut and that's not taking account of inflation over the last 5 years.
Where the sport will be in 10 years looks scary, especially when yo factor in the lack of junior rugby and the very likely further drop in numbers when the game gets going again (primarily due to covid).

The reason for the cut is because the contract has changed.
We got something like 40 million when it was exclusive to Sky.
Now they have a chance of selling games to BBC and other broadcasters.
Apart from hitting a wider audience, if the money from other broadcasters eclipses the 15 million reduction, then it's a masterstroke. If not then it's a problem but we know the product has to change if we can't sell it anywhere.

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:37 pm  

What’s he going to blame this week.

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:41 pm  

Willzay wrote:

What’s he going to blame this week.

Wow ... you’re off the boil ! No problem today with our effort ... Kershaw could have been better . Infact he’s not good enough imo ....? Other than that they score off a huge forward pass and we have one chalked off for nothing like . Very flattering score for them .

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:42 pm  

cocker wrote:

Wow ... you’re off the boil ! No problem today with our effort ... Kershaw could have been better . Infact he’s not good enough imo ....? Other than that they score off a huge forward pass and we have one chalked off for nothing like . Very flattering score for them .

I genuinely cannot believe there is even one person on here wanting to keep Chris Chester.

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:50 pm  

cocker wrote:

Wow ... you’re off the boil ! No problem today with our effort ... Kershaw could have been better . Infact he’s not good enough imo ....? Other than that they score off a huge forward pass and we have one chalked off for nothing like . Very flattering score for them .

They been putplayed again by a poor catalan performance stop blaming refs catalan also had what looked a clear try not given

Re: Taxi for Chester? : Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:52 pm  

Line speed pedestrian, leading to Catalans rolling every play of the ball, making yards after contact and able to create overlaps.
Our passing is slow leading to flat runners getting dominated, can't create overlaps due to this.
Using Battye the same way as King, Battye can't change a game off the bench.
Never felt as fed up with how the team is playing week in week out.