Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:08 pm  

His Bobness wrote:

Congratulations on being ranked the 7th biggest club in Super League.

Just think of those extra points if Schneider could find touch a simple penalty.

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:30 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Just think of those extra points if Schneider could find touch a simple penalty.

And the 38 years of hurt would have been over.

But he didn't and it's not.

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:52 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Just think of those extra points if Schneider could find touch a simple penalty.

Dave K wins the internet!

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:53 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Just think of those extra points if Schneider could find touch a simple penalty.

Only 0.125 pts for a challenge cup win, same as having LED advertising boards at your ground!

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:07 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Only 0.125 pts for a challenge cup win, same as having LED advertising boards at your ground!

Tbf they don't even have them

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:14 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Only 0.125 pts for a challenge cup win, same as having LED advertising boards at your ground!

good post from a Leigh supporter who can see the light


Woohoo, Leeds are Champions of Super League despite having a crap team. How on earth can anyone call this game a sport anymore. It's an effing joke. Doesn't matter what you do on the field, an Excel spreadsheet will decide your future. They will kill the end of season games and I fear for the clubs left out. Some of the teams above us are a joke, especially Toulouse and Wakey. Last person out please switch the lights off. They should bin IM effing G before they kill the game.

Roll on Derek and his investors new league Ultimate Rugby. Super League or whatever IMG rename it - I suggest Droopy league - died today.

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:20 pm  

According to a journalist (I forget his name) the Craven Streat experience impressed IMG.

Bribed with free cheeseburgers. This is corruption and I hope the RFL are looking in to it.

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:21 pm  

It's about raising minimum standards across the sport.

Teams shouldn't be penalised for missing out on a major trophy, but they should be for not having simple things that have a commercial value as well as making the sport look more professional to the outside world.

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:33 pm  

Craven street is honestly awful… I attended a game with my grandfather who is a rovers fan and wasn’t impressed at all…. But if spare land they’ve shoved a few burger vans on.

Think we need to give IMG a chance. The game has been stale for 50 years. Heres a message from my same grandad about the state of the sport:

It’s strange to say but Rugby League has hardly grown since the early 50s, if at all. There were 30 teams, sometimes 32 in the old Rugby League table and, in total, about the same now. There were teams like Streatham and Mitcham, Merthyr Tydfil, Acton and Willesden, Liverpool City, Huyton, Brighouse Rangers, Nottingham City and many many more. Many with NO rugby league tradition. Only the traditional ones live on, it seems. So what is the powers that be doing wrong? It’s a strange one eh? The North, and RL territory, in particular, is a puzzle. What do you think?

Re: IMG score : Wed Oct 25, 2023 8:14 pm  

Whatamidoinghere? wrote:

Craven street is honestly awful… I attended a game with my grandfather who is a rovers fan and wasn’t impressed at all…. But if spare land they’ve shoved a few burger vans on.

Think we need to give IMG a chance. The game has been stale for 50 years. Heres a message from my same grandad about the state of the sport:

It’s strange to say but Rugby League has hardly grown since the early 50s, if at all. There were 30 teams, sometimes 32 in the old Rugby League table and, in total, about the same now. There were teams like Streatham and Mitcham, Merthyr Tydfil, Acton and Willesden, Liverpool City, Huyton, Brighouse Rangers, Nottingham City and many many more. Many with NO rugby league tradition. Only the traditional ones live on, it seems. So what is the powers that be doing wrong? It’s a strange one eh? The North, and RL territory, in particular, is a puzzle. What do you think?

I actually think Maurice Lindsay had the right idea when SL started that we needed teams in big cities but suggesting mergers put everyone off. Had the game really focused on Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Hull who knows where it might be now.

RLs always had an odd terriotory tho, big in Wigan but not in Bolton up the road, popular across Cumbria but not Carlisle etc that holds us back