Rugby League Week: End of an era

[axl rose]

double

 

[Pedge1971]

1970 Tommy Bishop
1971 Bob Grant
1972 John Ballesty
1973 Johnny Mayes
1974 Arthur Beetson
1975 Bob Fulton
1976 Ray Higgs
1977 Mick Cronin
1978 Geoff Gerard
1979 Ray Price
1980 Kevin Hastings
1981 Kevin Hastings
1982 Kevin Hastings
1983 Phil Sigsworth
1984 Peter Sterling
1985 Ray Price
1986 Peter Sterling
1987 Peter Sterling
1988 Ben Elias
1989 Gavin Miller
1990 Mal Meninga
1991 Ewan McGrady
1992 Paul Langmack
1993 Steve Walters
1994 Cliff Lyons
1995 Laurie Daley
1996 Allan Langer
1997 Brad Fittler
1998 Andrew Johns
1999 Andrew Johns
2000 Andrew Johns
2001 Andrew Johns
2002 Andrew Johns
2003 Steve Price
2004 Nathan Hindmarsh
2005 Nathan Hindmarsh
2006 Luke Bailey
2007 Johnathan Thurston
2008 Billy Slater
2009 Jarryd Hayne
2010 Paul Gallen
2011 Corey Parker
2012 Ben Barba
2013 Corey Parker
2014 Jarryd Hayne
2015 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
2016 Jason Taumalolo.

Easy to see why RLW named Johns an immortal. 5 years in a row...only Kevin Hastings comes close.

 

[siv]

Interesting that RLW also has a concept of their Top 100 players in recent years also

Who were their #1 Top player over the years ?

I think this when RLW used to name a team.of the year

Noticed that the RLW player of the year and the #1 player in their Top 100 arent always the same

 

[TheFrog]

Easy to see why RLW named Johns an immortal. 5 years in a row...only Kevin Hastings comes close.

They've always had their favourites, both players and clubs. Hastings and Johns were champion players but there were many others equally deserving. Corey Parker in 2013 when his team ran 12th seems especially odd.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I rang my mum about a couple of cartons of RLW I'd saved from 1989-2000. All the super league era stuff.

Apparently, my old man recycled them...despite the DONT TOUCH OR YOU f**kING DIE labels.

Went with a near complete collection of Inside Edge and the 1989-1994 Hot Metal mags I had too.

merkins i tell you. So dirty right about now.

 

[grouch]

Bit of a twitter slanging match between the official RLW and one of it's writers, Steve Mascord, right now. I tend to side with Steve

 

[adamkungl]

RLW Online is getting all pissy

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

RLW Online is getting all pissy

They'll be over it in a week or two.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Well I finally completely finished the crossword today without cheating

 

[insert.pause]

The Mole sign on with Wide World of Sports
Read more at http://wwos.nine.com.au/2017/05/04/...mole-wide-world-of-sports#XibG5M6HKD8qzlDr.99

The NRL owned the IP of 'The Mole' from the sale of RLW, along with its twitter account with a following of over 100k, and instead of leveraging it's popularity to drive traffic on NRL.com, they let it go to a rival rugby league website. All while they are spending $20m a year on the games digital strategy, which presumably is about driving web traffic to NRL.com & the club network. It may be a small thing, but its affirmation of the sheer lack of initiative by the NRL.

 

[POPEYE]

Pity the Imaginary Immortal concept doesn't get buried with RLW

 

[The Marshall]

The Mole sign on with Wide World of Sports
Read more at http://wwos.nine.com.au/2017/05/04/...mole-wide-world-of-sports#XibG5M6HKD8qzlDr.99

The NRL owned the IP of 'The Mole' from the sale of RLW, along with its twitter account with a following of over 100k, and instead of leveraging it's popularity to drive traffic on NRL.com, they let it go to a rival rugby league website. All while they are spending $20m a year on the games digital strategy, which presumably is about driving web traffic to NRL.com & the club network. It may be a small thing, but its affirmation of the sheer lack of initiative by the NRL.

You have to question how many of the 100k Mole followers have even heard of rugby league.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Pity the Imaginary Immortal concept doesn't get buried with RLW

I think its pretty safe to say that the Immortals brand is better known than the Hall Of Fame, even if the Hall of Fame is a far better concept.

In the same way that they SHOULD be using the DallyM brand with the superior system of the RWL Player of the Year, the could use the Immortals brand with the HoF system.

 

[POPEYE]

I think its pretty safe to say that the Immortals brand is better known than the Hall Of Fame, even if the Hall of Fame is a far better concept.

In the same way that they SHOULD be using the DallyM brand with the superior system of the RWL Player of the Year, the could use the Immortals brand with the HoF system.

As long as the HOF can't be used to sell something it will always be disadvantaged by cockamamie rubbish like the immortals. Given the way KFC ingratiates the Bunker maybe Hall of Famers could be given a KFC Badge and their obligatory faces on billboards across the country

 

[ed-grimley]

As long as the HOF can't be used to sell something it will always be disadvantaged by cockamamie rubbish like the immortals. Given the way KFC ingratiates the Bunker maybe Hall of Famers could be given a KFC Badge and their obligatory faces on billboards across the country

And a year's supply of KFC.