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    widnes vikings

    Bit rich coming from someone calling themselves "God-King" :shock:
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    widnes vikings

    Widnes fans are notoriously difficult to please when it comes to their scrum halves. Joel's starting over Ian Webster at the moment but they're both pretty good players. I don't think he's done enough - yet - to justify a starting place in SL if Widnes were to get promoted (especially if he's...
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    Where I want the game to be when the World Cup is held in Australia in 2017

    PM'd you - sensitive subject!
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    Rugby League All Golds vs Great Britain can humiliate Rugby Union

    ITV (free to air channel) has RU World Cup rights, as they've already started to remind us with their adverts :roll:. NU game will be on Sky. I doubt many people other than the die hards will bother with the NU game. (I'll be going :)) There may be a limited benefit if it's on in the pub...
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    Where I want the game to be when the World Cup is held in Australia in 2017

    Slightly o/t, but is it that they're unlikely to be interested, or not given the opportunity? And the bulk of the Asian heritage population are hardly immigrants, having been born here. It is a shame on our sport given our heritage of welcoming players from different ethnic backgrounds that no...
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    1995 world cup - tonga vs new zealand.

    According to "The Rugby League World Cup" by League Publications Ltd, the game was at Warrington, played in front of a crowd of 8083 and they lined up: NZ Ridge (2G, 1DG), Hoppe (T), Blackmore (2T), Wiki, Barnett, Ngamu, Jones, Pongia, Eru, Lowrie, Tony Iro, Kearney, Kemp (T) - Subs: Henry...
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    GB rake up record score against France!!!

    Agree that you won't see as many French players coming over as Kiwis but there's a healthy number who have gone from France to England. Off the top of my head over the last few years and currently I can think of Seb Martins and Damien Couturier (Leigh), Julien Rinaldi (Quins), Jerome Guisset...
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    Super League podcast

    You can get the Boots n All podcast via itunes - just go into "podcasts" and do a power search for "rugby league". (You may need to be in the UK itunes store for this - you can change the country by scrolling right to the bottom of the page). It's not bad - one of the Sky presenters and either...
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    GB rake up record score against France!!!

    Read an interview in the French press via another forum where he suggests he'll be back before the end of the season. In an interview with Rugby League World a few months ago he said he'd look at playing union in a few years if the chance came up - though to be fair he didn't seem to have his...
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    Celtic Crusaders Live Now

    I get told a lot of things in private conversations - and they stay private ;-) Seriously though - this could have been a throwaway comment. Who knows what goes on inside Leighton Samuel's head? You can imagine things both ways - he started the club as a reaction to being shafted by the WRU so...
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    Celtic Crusaders Live Now

    It's good to see them starting to interview Welsh people in the crowd who obviously care for the club and the sport. During the Barrow game they managed to find everyone who had a northern accent... Wasn't as exciting a game as Barrow but it was clear both teams were very nervous. Crowds don't...
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    GB rake up record score against France!!!

    Sky wanted a Friday night game as this is the slot attracting the highest viewing figures for Super League. Also meant that no national and conference league fixtures clashed with it - it's only a free weekend for SL clubs. Wouldn't be too disappointed with the crowd figure - last GB v France...
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    What do you want to see in the world of rugby league in your lifetime?

    Don't see Treviso in anyone's lists :shock:
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    How feasible would a L'Aude merger be?

    Well, you're splitting hairs really - my point was that Sky's coverage brings in £4k which isn't enough to cover the shortfall in speccys - this season. Next season clubs should be able to negotiate better sponsorship deals as a result of the TV coverage but it depends what deals they're already...
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    How feasible would a L'Aude merger be?

    IMO this could work well as a replacement for the Northern Rail Cup, which holds little appeal beyond the final. One problem is that it's not necessarily attractive for sponsors - companies operating solely in the South of France and the North of England are a bit limited, and you may need to...
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    WCC attendance will be embarrasing

    The same game at the same venue in 2001 drew 16,041, which is probably 10,000 shy of the capacity at the Reebok Stadium. I don't think we're going to see much, if any, improvement on that depending on the weather on the night. I bought my tickets a few days ago. We don't have the pax number...
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    London

    Player numbers are certainly doing well - London is the 5th biggest service area in the UK. Quins are certainly doing their bit for player development now, and are actually running a U21 side - which is more than the Broncos managed towards the end. Attendance wise, it's not quite so good - I...
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    I need Help!

    WC 2000 footage available from here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/world_cup_2000/default.stm Pretty poor quality, but (just about) better than nothing...
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    Rugby League World Cup 2008 - Who will join AUS, NZ, ENG, FRA & PNG?

    For me, the proof of Griff's argument comes from the ludicrous amount of coverage that Romania Vs (some other lower level RU nation) got in the 2003 RUWC (I'm talking about the coverage in Britain BTW). The angle was "it's being played in Tasmania, it's their only RU world cup game and people...
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    Is this right?

    I also think this needs setting in a wider historical context. It's clear now that the famed French Resistance was much smaller than portrayed after the war. A realistic estimate is that 60,000 people were involved in actively fighting against the Nazi regime, compared to the 2 million or so who...

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