Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:55 pm  

brummie-eagle wrote:

Prefer the javelin myself

There's always one, and today it's you.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:36 pm  

Dr Badvibes wrote:

I think the time is now right to unify NL1 & NL2, with the loss of Widnes and the withdrawal of Toulouse we could make and 18 team single division work. Scrap the NRC as well.

Discuss.

18 ? I make it 19 or 20, depending on what Crusaders decide to do.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:38 pm  

I think we were desperate to get Q and Joe Hirst back and better vs Hunslet than say a stronger team but perhaps a game too early for both? Joe looked as if he was hobbling a bit.

Is the squad too small?

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:47 pm  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

I think we were desperate to get Q and Joe Hirst back and better vs Hunslet than say a stronger team but perhaps a game too early for both? Joe looked as if he was hobbling a bit.

Is the squad too small?

It is when the dual reg players go back.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:55 pm  

An alternative name for these dual regs could be the tampax brigade,As there in one week then out for three.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:11 pm  

There's a massive gap between the top of the Championship and the bottom without introducing Gateshead/Skolars/S Wales into the mix right now.

I know a lot of people don't like licenses (unless they have "off" in front of them) but I would have a slightly larger, licensed (or at least minimum standards) Championship. Say 13-16 clubs, 24 league games with play-offs. The other clubs would be in a new National division with the new expansion clubs, semi-pro but still subsidised and with less onerous standards. Winners get promoted subject to minimum standards and ability to sustain the higher level. Automatic relegation from Championship for going into admin.

Northern Rail Cup? Straight knockout, include Championship and National League clubs. Or don't have it at all, whatever.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:13 pm  

tim2 wrote:

There's a massive gap between the top of the Championship and the bottom without introducing Gateshead/Skolars/S Wales into the mix right now.

I know a lot of people don't like licenses (unless they have "off" in front of them) but I would have a slightly larger, licensed (or at least minimum standards) Championship. Say 13-16 clubs, 24 league games with play-offs. The other clubs would be in a new National division with the new expansion clubs, semi-pro but still subsidised and with less onerous standards. Winners get promoted subject to minimum standards and ability to sustain the higher level. Automatic relegation from Championship for going into admin.

Northern Rail Cup? Straight knockout, include Championship and National League clubs. Or don't have it at all, whatever.

Fine if you can get enough clubs for Div 3, but I suspect you can't.

I've always said the Rail Cup - or indeed any Cup - should be knockout. It's the whole ethos of cup competitions - at domestic level at least.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:27 pm  

If we expand the league season we can't be faffing about with an NRC group stage. We all hate those games anyway.

You never get enough teams for a third level, the Conference National lineup changes every year.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:39 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

It is when the dual reg players go back.

It is then, full stop. Can't be relying on these players, the whole system is ludicrous, if I had my way we wouldn't sign one dual reg player next season. Loans - fine, otherwise stick with the young lads, at least we know they will be available and will actually want to pull on the jersey.

Re: Hunslet Hawks v Sheffield Eagles OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:40 pm  

EAGLEBLADE II wrote:

An alternative name for these dual regs could be the tampax brigade,As there in one week then out for three.

There's no way you thought of that by yourself!