USARL Grand Final - LIVE NOW (8am AEST)

[clarency]

It is no more ridiculous than the NRL attaching golden point at the end of their games.

 

[gyallop]

Karl have you been to the East Coast of the USA in summer.....they play quarters for the same reason the NRL does in preseason. The NRL rules allow for drink breaks in each half on hot days so effectively we can play quarters here if both coaches agree and this has occurred many times. NRL doesn't play international rules either by the way.

 

[bobmar28]

They shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game. Rugby League is not played in Quarters.

It is when played in summer.

I like Golden point.

 

[spinnerhowland]

The temp on the field at Axemen games during the summer is always above 35 dgrees celcius - on some days above 40 degrees. The heat along with the 90% plus humidity would become a dangerous situation if we didn't play in quarters. Almost all the teams that play RL in the USA are faced with the same challenge and player safety needs to be considered at all times. It is just one of the concessions we needed to make to find a way to have the game proposer. AND it is custom the USA locals are used too, so it's not a tough sell.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Axeman, next game World Club Challenge with the big boys

 

[deluded pom?]

They shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game. Rugby League is not played in Quarters.

They shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game. Rugby League is not played with two referees.

 

[FortyTwenty]

Gents,

The format (and time-keeping) of the game was an item that was given very careful consideration by the USARL Board, and deemed appropriate in lieu of best fitting the USA market. (Similarly, the optional use of yards in place of meters, to fit and grant allowance of Gridiron fields, was another matter carefully considered.)

At the end of the day, small refinements do more benefit to the sport's development than they do negatives (such as a concept of "bastardization", in the eyes of purists). Even the global RL bodies (such as the RLEF) support domestic refinements to certain elements of the game, so that an efficacious and positively-orientated development strategy can be fostered.

Underlying all, these USARL -approved & -ratified "tweaks" to the Laws of the Game, did definitively materialize in quantitative (and qualitative) results. The USA Rugby League: 2012 Grand Final played host to overflowing stands with over 600 fans (from New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Jacksonville (FL), as well as a handful from as far afield as Australia, England and even South Africa. Add to this, an additional 600+ viewers watched the action live online, there were over 1,200 people who watched the event live, as the excitement unfolded.

However we each wish to independently debate the statement "they shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game", one cannot ignore that the resultant fan experience (within a previously untapped market) was one that wasn't only positive, but lends itself toward a future-facing development strategy.

For some of the photos which have been released (to date), courtesy of "13 Photography" [ironically, no official/corporate ties to the Boston 13s RLFC], please see: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.415255831855664.90882.161963913851525&type=3

At the end of the day, the marquee event was a success, the game itself was second to none, and The Great Game won.

Congratulations to the Jacksonville Axemen for their monumental victory in, what was unquestionably, the greatest game of domestic Rugby League we've ever been a part of.

 

[Evil Homer]

The NRL are the worst culprits for 'messing with the game'. Get a grip.

 

[adamkungl]

They shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game. Rugby League is not played in Quarters.

The NRL plays some games in quarters at the start of the year. It's a safety issue... a far bigger one than nonsense whinging over shoulder charges.

It is no more ridiculous than the NRL attaching golden point at the end of their games.

yep

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Rugby Leagues Mid week comp (national Panasonic cup and so on) that went for decades in Australia was always played in quarters no matter what time of the year the games kicked off.

Never had a problem with it.

 

[Steve Davy]

Gents,

The format (and time-keeping) of the game was an item that was given very careful consideration by the USARL Board, and deemed appropriate in lieu of best fitting the USA market. (Similarly, the optional use of yards in place of meters, to fit and grant allowance of Gridiron fields, was another matter carefully considered.)

At the end of the day, small refinements do more benefit to the sport's development than they do negatives (such as a concept of "bastardization", in the eyes of purists). Even the global RL bodies (such as the RLEF) support domestic refinements to certain elements of the game, so that an efficacious and positively-orientated development strategy can be fostered.

Underlying all, these USARL -approved & -ratified "tweaks" to the Laws of the Game, did definitively materialize in quantitative (and qualitative) results. The USA Rugby League: 2012 Grand Final played host to overflowing stands with over 600 fans (from New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Jacksonville (FL), as well as a handful from as far afield as Australia, England and even South Africa. Add to this, an additional 600+ viewers watched the action live online, there were over 1,200 people who watched the event live, as the excitement unfolded.

However we each wish to independently debate the statement "they shouldn't be allowed to mess with the format of the game", one cannot ignore that the resultant fan experience (within a previously untapped market) was one that wasn't only positive, but lends itself toward a future-facing development strategy.

For some of the photos which have been released (to date), courtesy of "13 Photography" [ironically, no official/corporate ties to the Boston 13s RLFC], please see: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.415255831855664.90882.161963913851525&type=3

At the end of the day, the marquee event was a success, the game itself was second to none, and The Great Game won.

Congratulations to the Jacksonville Axemen for their monumental victory in, what was unquestionably, the greatest game of domestic Rugby League we've ever been a part of.

Well said!

If there is one theme which has carried through the history of rugby league, it is one of continual adaptation to survive and often prosper. This is a great game that survive persecution from without and the likes of Bill Fallowfield from within.

Rugby in the North of England only survived the onslaught of soccer as rugby league developed to survive. All the great and rigid rugby union bastions of that age (Manchester, Liverpool) are now soccer strongholds, while the Northern Union centers were places like St Helens, Leeds and Wigan. We should uphold the ancient tradition of progress and local adaptation that was started in 1895.