Re: Sheffield Home game : Tue May 17, 2022 5:14 pm  

Reboot wrote:

Jason Loubser - It’s always been our ambition to grow Rugby League across the region, and we hope our plans to host a one-off match each season in Kent can accelerate us fulfilling this objective.

I have never heard such b/s in all my time supporting this club.

I'd love to see the fag packet these objectives are written on.

The fag packet is with the other empty fag packet with the heading “ reasons why moving grounds is a smart thing to do at exactly the same time as going part time”. Possibly both under a big pile of team sheets for the Newcastle game they never got round to handing out!

Re: Sheffield Home game : Tue May 17, 2022 5:18 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

An ex Broncos fan I know was told by an Ebbsfleet official that this was on the cards at Steve Mascord's birthday bash. He told me at Army RL Challenge Cup 2nd Round day so it's been in the pipelines a long time.

One of the Ebbsfleet officials used to be employed by an NRL club, which is why they were so keen to host the match.

Just worked out that the guy in question is Damian Irvine. He has a decent RL admin pedigree and used to turn up on Rugby League BackChat quite a bit and made a lot of sense. He also did the commentary for one of our Our League games last season and although he struggled with the team sheet he made a decent stab at commentating and was insightful. Long story short, whilst this actual game makes no sense whatsoever, getting links with him might play out well in the long run as I think he knows what’s what and wouldn’t make the kind of crass mistakes we have been making recently.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Tue May 17, 2022 5:22 pm  

[quote="Deadcowboys1"]
If they had adopted even 30% of the suggestions made on this forum by us, the club would be in a better position

Although, in fairness, some of the suggestions made on this forum for what the board should do have been anatomically impossible!

Re: Sheffield Home game : Tue May 17, 2022 5:41 pm  

That's why I limited it to just 30% BT.

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Sheffield Home game : Thu May 19, 2022 5:24 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Hopefully no Sheffield fans booked cheap train tickets to London...

There's a few of us that have (not many obviously) although it's not really an issue, most Eagles fans would be arriving at St Pancras or Kings Cross anyway, so it's quicker to Northfleet than Wimbledon from there anyway.

However, if you're staying over, and you've booked a non refundable hotel somewhere near SW London...

Re: Sheffield Home game : Thu May 19, 2022 5:42 pm  

If you want to pay the high speed supplement it's about 20 minutes from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet International. It looks like parking at Ebbsfleet station is about £7.00 - slightly cheaper if booked in advance

Re: Sheffield Home game : Fri May 20, 2022 7:28 am  

"Funny old game, RL...and RLFans is stranger still: Leigh got a fantastic result uphill and down dale tonight and there's virtually no activity on our forum." That's why we're here Bongser.