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Can you quit with the bitching please, it's getting tiresome.bowes said:Sad to say a f**k up of that proportion has already been made
Can you quit with the bitching please, it's getting tiresome.bowes said:Sad to say a f**k up of that proportion has already been made
No, Bowes is completely right. It's been proved in the past week that we have at least 12 teams of a similar standard that could be competitive. There's no excuse for not including all 12 and having a proper, fair draw. It's not too late for the RLIF to change things, although it won't happen as the likes of Love have far too much pride to admit they made a mistake. Massive, massive shame because these qualifiers have built up so much positive momentum for international league, both here in Britain and in the southern hemisphere by the sounds of it, and chances are it will all be ruined by the horrendous format.Lockyer4President! said:Can you quit with the bitching please, it's getting tiresome.
Evil Homer said:No, Bowes is completely right. It's been proved in the past week that we have at least 12 teams of a similar standard that could be competitive. There's no excuse for not including all 12 and having a proper, fair draw. It's not too late for the RLIF to change things, although it won't happen as the likes of Love have far too much pride to admit they made a mistake. Massive, massive shame because these qualifiers have built up so much positive momentum for international league, both here in Britain and in the southern hemisphere by the sounds of it, and chances are it will all be ruined by the horrendous format.
screeny said:Bowes is a true leaguie, so I for one will never ask him to stop his bitching.
Part of being a true leaguie is an innate sense of desperation and paranoia borne out of supporting our beloved sport that has been abused, slapped around and smothered half to death more times than the kidnapped RU fan I keep locked up in my fortified basement.
Therefore, bitch away Bowes, I salute you...
PARRA_FAN said:I got something in the post as well. A good sign of promotion.
I also realised that the Aus Vs Eng match is around the same time as the Melbourne Cup next year which I'll already be going to. Perfect timing, so Im definately get tickets to that game.
I reckon its gonna be huuuge.
yeah, though needn't even be that drastic a change, if they switched England and the repechage winners round and then had the top two of pool A and the winners of pool B and pool C go through it would be instantly more credible. Changing the numbers is sadly probably too late though now that the qualifiers are nearly done, though it must be 12 in 2013Evil Homer said:No, Bowes is completely right. It's been proved in the past week that we have at least 12 teams of a similar standard that could be competitive. There's no excuse for not including all 12 and having a proper, fair draw. It's not too late for the RLIF to change things, although it won't happen as the likes of Love have far too much pride to admit they made a mistake. Massive, massive shame because these qualifiers have built up so much positive momentum for international league, both here in Britain and in the southern hemisphere by the sounds of it, and chances are it will all be ruined by the horrendous format.
thommo4pm said:How many season ticket holders would there be across all 16 NRL clubs?
Well and truly over 100,000 surely.
S.S.T.I.D said:I got mine in the mail too, but as to that estimate? 100,000 would not be even remotely close. Souths have one of the highest at around 4K. Manly have only 1500 for example. The Broncs might bump the numbers up a bit, but I'd say it would be closer to half that. Still, not bad exposure and a good idea.
I wouldn't have had it in the first place. Nothing to do with accomodating teams that have 'tried hard', it's just the sensible thing to do. There's no prestige in the current format anyway, as Bowes said it's basically an emerging nations comp with a Tri-Nations running at the same time.Ari Gold said::lol: I'm glad you're not in charge of the RLIF, would you seriously change the format now, after all the qualifiers? THAT would be a farce.
The World Cup has already started, you can't change the format to accomodate teams that have "tried hard". It adds prestige to a tournament when good teams miss out... maybe some teams will take it more seriously next time round.
Evil Homer said:Massive, massive shame because these qualifiers have built up so much positive momentum for international league, both here in Britain and in the southern hemisphere by the sounds of it, and chances are it will all be ruined by the horrendous format.
are you sure? im a eels STH, i haven't received anything so far.thommo4pm said:It appears all season ticket holders from every club have received the same letter and correspondence in the mail.
It contains a letter explaining what's happening and the draw/schedule for the world cup.
Angry_eel said:are you sure? im a eels STH, i haven't received anything so far.