: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:46 am  

Asim wrote:

The logo looks classless and tacky, but I guess that befits the modern game and its current "made for tv" outlook, as we blindly move towards a WWF style "product".

However, some of us used to prefer Rugby League when it was a sport.

Forgive me for not expecting a mass flow of people down to the Shay to watch Fax as a result of this change.

Unlike yours I doubt this post will meet with the approval of this forums self-appointed judge and jury, but what the heck.

Come on Asim. It is a way of showing that the club is modernising. Your in no position to start critisising the crowds. Bulls average crowd four years ago was around the 15K mark, I believe, I was at Odsal when you played Leeds in from of 26K (number may be wrong), but what is your likely average crowd figure going to be this year, languishing at the bottom of the league?

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:49 am  

spanishbob wrote:

Come on Asim. It is a way of showing that the club is modernising. Your in no position to start critisising the crowds. Bulls average crowd four years ago was around the 15K mark, I believe, I was at Odsal when you played Leeds in from of 26K (number may be wrong), but what is your likely average crowd figure going to be this year, languishing at the bottom of the league?

Asim isn't a Bulls fan. You'd need to ask him questions about the crowds in Bradford Northern times.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:58 am  

Asim wrote:

The logo looks classless and tacky, but I guess that befits the modern game and its current "made for tv" outlook, as we blindly move towards a WWF style "product".

However, some of us used to prefer Rugby League when it was a sport.

Forgive me for not expecting a mass flow of people down to the Shay to watch Fax as a result of this change.

Unlike yours I doubt this post will meet with the approval of this forums self-appointed judge and jury, but what the heck.

Good hyperbole. Lovely anger. Like it!

Rugby League still is a sport - the central part of all the glitter and marketing remains. Not sure where your'e looking but it's there in the middle in two bursts of 40 minutes and IMO it's a lot better than 20 years ago.

The rest of the show may not be to your taste but then it's probably not meant to be. It's for the people that hadn't been watching before and it has attracted in over the last decade and a half to the clubs that got it right. It's for the people that still haven't made the trip yet. It's a show to focus people's attention on the game in the hope that they may enjoy the sport. It's called marketing.

Again, good luck Fax.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:57 pm  

spanishbob wrote:

Come on Asim. It is a way of showing that the club is modernising. Your in no position to start critisising the crowds. Bulls average crowd four years ago was around the 15K mark, I believe, I was at Odsal when you played Leeds in from of 26K (number may be wrong), but what is your likely average crowd figure going to be this year, languishing at the bottom of the league?

I'm not criticising your crowds, there's probably more RL knowledge in the couple of thousand of regulars at the Shay than there is in the 9k who are, (currently) still turning up at Odsal, and having been to Fax games a couple of times last season it is a much better matchday experience for it.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:00 pm  

Block5Bull wrote:

Good hyperbole. Lovely anger. Like it!

Rugby League still is a sport - the central part of all the glitter and marketing remains. Not sure where your'e looking but it's there in the middle in two bursts of 40 minutes and IMO it's a lot better than 20 years ago.

Indeed, you know what they say about opinions.

Personally the glorified touch and pass affair that "Super" League has morphed into does nothing for me, and as proven by the World Cup debacle, has done nothing for the playing standards of RL in this country.

Most of the NL clubs have to realise they have no chance of ever getting a SL license, so trying to emulate how things are done in SL is not going to work for them.

[Bullseye]

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:05 pm  

Asim wrote:

Indeed, you know what they say about opinions.

Personally the glorified touch and pass affair that "Super" League has morphed into does nothing for me, and as proven by the World Cup debacle, has done nothing for the playing standards of RL in this country.

Most of the NL clubs have to realise they have no chance of ever getting a SL license, so trying to emulate how things are done in SL is not going to work for them.

Has AP stolen your login Asim

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:06 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Has AP stolen your login Asim

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:17 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Has AP stolen your login Asim

Be careful, you're not allowed to mention "him" on here!

[Bullseye]

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:18 pm  

Ancient Provocateur wrote:

:?

Not you mate! I meant Agent Provocateur!