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    Devastated - RL1908.com

    From Monday RL1908 will be posting messages each day about news & other happenings in RL, in real-time, as if this year was 1908 not 2012. These will be posted on http://twitter.com/RL1908 & on Facebook via http://www.RL1908.com/facebook The idea is that RL fans experience RL history in...
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    OT: League player suspected of killing wife before shooting self

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    Neville Smith pushing for a Champions League involving 8 teams from the NRL and SL

    No. St Helens came to Aust in 1976, and Harry Sunderland came very close to getting a Wigan team here in the late 1930s, but that's about it.
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    Neville Smith pushing for a Champions League involving 8 teams from the NRL and SL

    I think you're about right with mush of that. Eventually RL will connect its two heartlands - the same as the Sydney & Brisbane joined into one - it is only a question of time, distance & expense vs profitability. If I was to speculate (for what that's worth I dunno!) I don't forsee the two...
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    Neville Smith pushing for a Champions League involving 8 teams from the NRL and SL

    Thanks Von. The game in the late 1980s & early 1990s appeared to me to strike a good balance. Of course, the other factor is that players of that era were not training fulltime, so even if the playing rules were today those of c.1990, some issues of player burnout would arguably still be...
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    Neville Smith pushing for a Champions League involving 8 teams from the NRL and SL

    Sort of - I was advocating both teams be set back 5m. That would take some of the collion force out of the game, some of fitness demands generated by 10m rule, and hopefully more expansive/specualtive play to advance the ball upfield. What is obvious is that RL in its present form is beyond...
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    Neville Smith pushing for a Champions League involving 8 teams from the NRL and SL

    RL's problem is the on-field game itself - all these opportunities to make extra $ & grow the game, but can't, as playing the game exacts too big a toll on the players. Over the past 15 years the game has continued on a path toward being the NRL and nothing else. All gone due to concerns over...
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    The League Lounge (on Fox Sports)

    How did the 2011 ratings for 'NRL on Fox' & 'The League Lounge' stack up against AFL360, On the Couch, AFL insider, TheWinners, AFL Teams, After The Bounce?
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    Daily Telecrap at their lowest - Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity

    Not sure what got him wound up, but i have already replied > The answer is there is no one still around flying the VFA flag.
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    Daily Telecrap at their lowest - Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity

    All sport, including RL, RU & VFL, continued in Australia in WW2, and that was even when the continent was under direct threat of invasion.
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    Daily Telecrap at their lowest - Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity

    Been commenting on this at http://www.twitter.com/RL1908 - some of the posts...
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    2012 Jersey & Sponsorship Discussion

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    RL in PNG (Aust Federal Parliament 1960)

    This item of interest came my way recently...extract from Hansard - Aust Federal parliament 28 April 1960: Seems to be suggesting RL was pushed to some degree by Aust govt, and was preferred over soccer and AR as the latter two were more a game to be watched, and the Papuans were more likely...
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    AFL jumps at foothold

    Same story on a repeat run...
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    Scrums - the dinosaur of Rugby evolution.

    Good grief! I've think you've just invented a means for AFL players to take up rugby league...as front rowers!
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    Scrums - the dinosaur of Rugby evolution.

    I'm not in favour of the collision. Even in RU it is not a traditional concept, having been introduced to the game in the 1980s. In RU the winning of the collision goes towards winning the scrum. RL doesn't have RU style scrummaging props to play that sort of scrummage battle. Nor do I think the...
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    Scrums - the dinosaur of Rugby evolution.

    The point is there should be some of effort being made to devise a workable way to keep some semblance of a scrum (preferably contestable) in the game. There should be some workshops going on looking at different scrum/pack formations and seeing what might work. Having 3 men in the front row...
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    NRL - Too many games?

    The problem is that playing rugby league exacts too high a toll on those that play the necessary number/type of games to fund and sustain it. The evolution of the game's playing rules under the 10m rule and one-sided play-the-balls/scrums has been carried on without any regard for the...
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    Storming in to Hobart!!!!!

    Thanks Von.
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    Scrums - the dinosaur of Rugby evolution.

    Team A knocks on, then Team B knocks on in recovering the ball, then we have a stop work meeting for 60 seconds, that ends by giving the ball back to Team B anyway. I'm not sure what the solution to it is, but the above scenario that plays out in every game of RL is, when you step back and...

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