Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:38 pm  

Conorgiantsfan wrote:

Will putting in Keighley Cougars solve this problem?

Of course it will

The Cougars are a dead duck with minimal interest and are laying people off.

Progressive or what!!!!!!

The current chair reckons the club will get a franchise in 2015

Not sure what type mind you but it wont be a soooooperdoooooooper league one.

BUT!!!!!!!

If it happens (and it's not impossible) then the game in this country will be going from strength to strength and will SOLD OUT at all venues. The national side will be beating all and sundry by massive margins and there will be a minimal smattering of overseas players and coaches involved in the game here if at all!


You can see that happening form where the game is now can't you.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:32 pm  

I can now, thanks Leaguefan

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:33 pm  

Richie wrote:

Well we know football fans don't go to watch the spectacle of the game itself, because it's always poor. Never has anything been as incorrectly named as "The Beautiful Game"

Why is it franchising is always seen as "consigning to the lower leagues for all eternity" which it never has been.
It's simply a way of requiring more than a single set of results from a single team to decide the league a club play in.

In the same way that RL isn't strong enough to have a genuine 'league ' competition decided that way either , we need to have a 27 match qualifying competition to decide who gets to play at home in the real comp which is the play offs

Get rid of location and subjective criteria and I doubt anybody would have a problem with franchising

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:30 pm  

Starbug wrote:

In the same way that RL isn't strong enough to have a genuine 'league ' competition decided that way either , we need to have a 27 match qualifying competition to decide who gets to play at home in the real comp which is the play offs

Get rid of location and subjective criteria and I doubt anybody would have a problem with franchising

Not sure you can have a set of criteria that is entirely objective, almost everything involves some area of subjectivity.
Why shouldn't location be a factor?

Why would finishing with a playoff series imply the league isn't strong enough (whatever that means) and why would a playoff series imply the league isn't genuine?

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:35 pm  

Richie wrote:

Not sure you can have a set of criteria that is entirely objective, almost everything involves some area of subjectivity.
Why shouldn't location be a factor?

Why would finishing with a playoff series imply the league isn't strong enough (whatever that means) and why would a playoff series imply the league isn't genuine?

The fact you ask these questions tells me one of three things

1 you don't understand what sport is really about

2 you are trying to be ' smokey ' clever

3 you are truly thick

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:41 am  

Starbug wrote:

The fact you ask these questions tells me one of three things

1 you don't understand what sport is really about

2 you are trying to be ' smokey ' clever

3 you are truly thick

1. Maybe my belief in what sport is truly about is just different to yours.
2. Nope
3.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:45 am  

Richie wrote:

1. Maybe my belief in what sport is truly about is just different to yours.
2. Nope
3.

Away you go ?

I'm all ears , well eyes actually , but you know what I mean

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:27 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Away you go ?

I'm all ears , well eyes actually , but you know what I mean

The spectacle and appeal and entertainment of the sport itself. I'd already said that. You laughted at the idea of that. It's as if you are not entertained by watching the sport of rugby league being played.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:28 pm  

Richie wrote:

The spectacle and appeal and entertainment of the sport itself. I'd already said that. You laughted at the idea of that. It's as if you are not entertained by watching the sport of rugby league being played.

Ask the residents of the South stand at Leeds if that is why they watch the game ?

If it was the spectacle then nobody would watch anything other than a big club in a big stadium full of people

If it was just for entertainment I could watch Leigh East under 10 s for free

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:00 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Ask the residents of the South stand at Leeds if that is why they watch the game ?

If it was the spectacle then nobody would watch anything other than a big club in a big stadium full of people

If it was just for entertainment I could watch Leigh East under 10 s for free

Do Leight East Under 10s demonstrate the skills of the game to as great a standard as Leigh Centurions? (nicely cued you up for a sarcy answer there)

If it's just this emotion and tribality we're basing the game on, then the increasing mobility of the country's population, with people feeling a lesses and lesser attachment to the place they live, then crowds are certainly going to decline. As you quoted yourself, you're seeing fewer and fewer young fans. Why? Because they're not interested in "emotion , tribal controlled violence to spot them killing each other " they want entertainment.