Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:10 pm  

It's bad enough having to step foot in enemy territory for every home game never mind trailing all the way to Derbyshire and back. No thankyou.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:52 am  

On a temporary measure or just as a one-off i would be more than happy to go to Chesterfield or Rotherham for a change,I would rather got out of Sheffield than go to don Valley again,It really is the pits for watching rugby and would kill the Eagles if we went back there again,I would also put forward the Sheffield FC ground with capacity of 2,500 as a nice -off venue,Would be a cracking atmosphere.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:22 am  

E.S.O wrote:

It's bad enough having to step foot in enemy territory for every home game never mind trailing all the way to Derbyshire and back. No thankyou.

I have to travel from Derbyshire to watch the Eagles every week!

I do agree though, it should be in Sheffield, even though the 500000 inhabitants of the city seem to be largely unaware that the Eagles exist. Having to be in Sheffield takes Sheffield FC's ground out of the equation!

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:30 am  

Technically Sheffield FC ground is not in Sheffield,Bet it's less than a mile outside of Sheffield though,Also should we be playing our reserve games in Derbyshire

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:41 am  

I agree with ESO, first half excellent, second half we cruised a bit which we shouldnt do. I was disapointed with Toulouse, they looked good with ball in hand but just kept dropping it. I thought the ref was poor for both sides. Some stuff he gave against Toulouse was just plain daft.

One little observation, Tubby will be disapointed with the two first half tries we conceded. Poor defending from penalties.

Menzie stood out of course, Brown continues to shine and full credit to Finigan, looked very good on debut.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:49 am  

EAGLEBLADE II wrote:

Who is this Brendan you speak off?

Brendan Worth, pal.

He did OK. Worked hard.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:52 am  

sanjunien wrote:

don't know your area mate,it's not my neck of the woods - there has to be smewhere which would work out more economical for the Eagles surely ?

Well, no, there isn't.

I'd be dead against taking it out of the city. May as well move to Huddersfield or summat.

Which has been mooted in the past.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:39 pm  

EAGLEBLADE II wrote:

Technically Sheffield FC ground is not in Sheffield,Bet it's less than a mile outside of Sheffield though,Also should we be playing our reserve games in Derbyshire

The Eagles seem quite happy to get reserve, academy and scholarship players from the Midlands. Time to give a little back, I think!

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:45 pm  

We get first grade players from Samoa and PNG but I'd consider calls to play in Goroka a little eccentric.

Re: Sheffield Eagles vs Toulouse Olympique OFFICIAL MATCH TH : Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:59 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

It's bad enough having to step foot in enemy territory for every home game never mind trailing all the way to Derbyshire and back. No thankyou.

Poor you..................

I travel from Cumbria every game, so a couple of miles down the road is nothing.

Surely it is better to have the games played by an Eagles team,somewhere close to Sheffield, than not, which would mean that a representative side from Eagles could not play in the Championship.

Now Saints play at Widnes, Crusaders were franchised to play in Bridgend, but play in Wrexham.... but the RFL have this wonderful aspect of all rules are made to be broken !!