Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:12 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

South Yorkshire isn't a county.

It was a council.

Boringhell.

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:13 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

Boringhell.

<chuckle>

But you know it's right .........

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:21 pm  

rupert bear wrote:

If this was a discussion about the Cumbrian teams joining together for a SL team everyone would be saying what a good idea it was.

No they would not..................... Ask ANY Cumbrian Rugby League Supporter........

Merge three teams that are so close together.....

Barrow to Whitehaven = 53 miles
Workington to Barrow = 61 miles

Come on.......you obviously have no idea about Cumbria. There are approx 25 separate clubs in the Furness and Cumbrian area with 8 of those in Barrow alone. Barrow/Furness Area deserves a SL Club just as much as Workington and Whitehaven.

Why not merge all these clubs around Featherstone, Castleford and wakefield or even Widnes, Crusaders and Saint Helens or Rochdale, Swinton, Leigh and Wigan..............

Failed mergers: Gateshead to Hull = 141 miles

and Huddersfield to Sheffield = 35 miles...............


In 1995 when Sheffield bought Doncaster for a £1 and the talk of a merger then fell on deaf ears. Donny may be twice as old as Sheffield in terms of RL, but merger...... it would not work.

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:46 pm  

Barrow's not a Cumbrian team.

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:49 pm  

Why was Hull/Gateshead Hudders/Sheff a failed merger?

Castleford,Wakefield,Widnes,Wigan,St Helens,Leigh can all manage on there own they get crowds and are happy on there own,I would be dancing on the feckin moon if we got 3k plus crowds,i wouldnt have even mentioned it,The fact ive mentioned it is because we dont get any crowds and its the only thing stopping us getting there and i cant ever see us getting crowds so have to look at alternative options if we want to get in super league,Its not that hard to grasp,Im not rupert Murdoch and not planning on merging Cas,Feath,Wakey or anybody else,Just think it would be worth a thought for us,Would be interesting to find out Eagles fans who dont live in the city and what there opinion is?

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:18 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Barrow's not a Cumbrian team.

To many of us Barrow is Lancahire through and through and you had to drive from Lancashire thro' Cumberland and Westmorland to get here in Barrow, Lancashire. Unfortunately due to a certain political party South Yorkshire AND Cumbria were formed at the same time and certain people "tagged" Barrow as Cumbria. There is a Barrow and District ARLFC and there are the Cumberland Leagues and no matter what they do not want mergers.

Barrow is not a team at the moment Well not as such !!

Workington and Whitehaven could merge as they are close together, but with their history I can not see and that suggestion going down too well.

The "discussions " [ ] about Cumbrian Mergers have gone on for years but it wont happen. Pride takes a big part in that.

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:05 am  

Griff - 1974 happened. Deal with it.

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:27 am  

Griff lives near Featherstone remember, 1974 hasn't happened yet.

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:01 pm  

Featherstone - not in Wakefield.

Allerton Bywater - not in Leeds.

Barrow - not in Cumbria.

QED.

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: South Yorkshire Team : Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:25 pm  

I really enjoyed my holiday last week in Yugoslavia.