Re: South Yorkshire Team : Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:33 pm  

Has anyone noticed that EB is always updating on here during working hours? His gaffer must let him get away with murder........

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:34 pm  

West Country Eagle wrote:

It's interesting that this has been brought up again. A couple of years back I interviewed Gary Hetherington for a piece that was due to go in a book about the history of English schools rugby league (remember Sheffield Schools U11 played at Wembley in 1993). The conversation naturally wandered onto Eagles matters and Hetherington reiterated his opinion that the only way a Super League club would work in our neck of the woods would be a merged South Yorkshire "franchise".

Well, I don't know what young Gary's thinking of. One minute he's saying it's the only course of action and then it's a non-starter. Said it earlier in the thread - the reason it won't work is that neither side will see it as "their team".

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:25 pm  

8 pages of this, thought someone might of locked this before now!

Anyway since it's still going...

Sounds un-loyal (if that is a word) but I wouldn't travel to Donny every other weekend for a home game and I'm sure Donny fans wouldn't travel to Sheffield neither.

It's a non-starter for me, I know we have so much to compete with in this city, not just in terms of sports teams but other stuff to do but if we surely should be able to get an average of 2,500 in if we push for it in the next 2 years.

Everything this club has achieved since it's reform has been the 'Sheffield Eagles', not South Yorkshire Eagles. Let's keep it that way.