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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:22 pm  
The video on Wigan t.v with Elstone, Lenagan and McManus is well worth watching.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:35 pm  
Did anyone else prefer the old league & CC structure with the premiership final at Old Trafford? I was stupidly thinking if the incentive of a premiership final win was to compete in the world club final it might work. Maybe I'm just being old fashioned.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:28 pm  
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Did anyone else prefer the old league & CC structure with the premiership final at Old Trafford? I was stupidly thinking if the incentive of a premiership final win was to compete in the world club final it might work. Maybe I'm just being old fashioned.


I much preferred the CC Final being in May. It being in August his diluted it somewhat IMHO.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:32 pm  
100% Warrior wrote:
I much preferred the CC Final being in May. It being in August his diluted it somewhat IMHO.



It needs to move imo although May would be difficult with football play offs, FA Cup Final etc. I’d go mid June and then get the rounds spaced out evenly rather then having this ridiculous 8 week gap between the quarters and semis.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:06 pm  
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Let's hope Mr Elstone recommends/insists all Super League teams have to run a reserves side.

He does mention that in the full press release, as well as minimum standards for promoted clubs.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:14 pm  
100% Warrior wrote:
I much preferred the CC Final being in May. It being in August his diluted it somewhat IMHO.


It’s not so much the month but where it is in relation to the season. The Challenge cup was effectively the season finale and the big day out. That has now been replaced with the grand final. Unless we move the CC to the end of the season and return to first past the post I doubt it will ever be as big as it was.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:56 pm  
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It’s not so much the month but where it is in relation to the season. The Challenge cup was effectively the season finale and the big day out. That has now been replaced with the grand final. Unless we move the CC to the end of the season and return to first past the post I doubt it will ever be as big as it was.


I see your point to an extent but even some years after the Grand Final was introduced the CC Final was still a big occasion. I just think it’s so spread out in the fixtures that they just sneak up on fans who don’t even realise their club are in a CC Fixture. We don’t make enough noise about it or put any real effort into it. I think the RFL sit in Red Hall thinking “its alreet lads, it’s the challenge cup. Be reet”.

If we shift it back to May and make fixtures every month fans aren’t allowed to lose that Cup Magic feeling. The first big event of the season followed by Magic, Internationals, War of The Roses, Grand Final run in.

Sport these days is all about events. Making the sport appealing to casual fans by putting on a show. That’s how darts has done it, the NFL and even Baseball are coming over soon! Bloody baseball! It’s rounders on a larger scale! And don’t get me started on NFL!

How we sit there and take that is beyond me.

We’re too reliant on the dedicated fans who come week in week out rain or shine. But they’re a dying breed. Fans and kids these days rarely go for the love of their team. Fans want entertainment.

If we could market ourselves half decently Sky and other broadcasters would sit up and take note. We’re poor at marketing and we always have been.

We have millions of closet RL fans up and down the country but would they go to a CC Final? Magic? No. It’s not an event. It doesn’t appeal to them. Make it appeal to them, market properly and in advance. Don’t just throw up signs in a bus stop a week before expecting every man and his dog to rock up, like was just done in Newcastle.

I’ve gone off on a tangent a little there :lol:
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:55 am  
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The video on Wigan t.v with Elstone, Lenagan and McManus is well worth watching.


Think it's quite funny the way Hetherington responded first, basically telling the inert Barwick that he needed to say something. And then Barwick jumped to it.

That, in a nutshell, is why we need this new age of SL to kick in as soon as possible, with proper people at the helm.
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:12 am  
As a general rule, if Hetherington disagrees with something its usually a good thing :)
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Re: 2019 Season - Super 8's scrapped : Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:40 am  
Cruncher wrote:
Sounds like a man under pressure.

sounds like a cry baby who has had his rattle confiscated!

it's good for the game, new ideas and no blazers in sight!
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