Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:53 pm  

I've heard fans complain that youngsters don't get the opportunities
Heard groans of anguish when players leave to play a code with a higher international profile
And periodic grumbles about how Hall/Watkins should be dropped
Complaints when we're beaten (again) by Australia
Moans about the predictability of the league
Despair at the same few teams winning everything.

It's. One. F******. Game. Where we'll be missing a centre and a winger.

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:58 pm  

PrinterThe wrote:

RU can do that though because the 6 Nations generates so much money that feeds back to the clubs which they benefit from.

It does now but it didn't used to.

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:09 pm  

Clearwing wrote:

I've heard fans complain that youngsters don't get the opportunities
Heard groans of anguish when players leave to play a code with a higher international profile
And periodic grumbles about how Hall/Watkins should be dropped
Complaints when we're beaten (again) by Australia
Moans about the predictability of the league
Despair at the same few teams winning everything.

It's. One. F******. Game. Where we'll be missing a centre and a winger.

Well said Sir, Well said

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:23 am  

I don't have any issue at all with players being taken for this one game. All teams pretty much will be hit. If it benefits the England cause, which it hopefully will then great. Infact, should really be two games out there if we are going to do it, do it right.

Moon back to centre for this game and Handley onto the wing, not going to weaken us all that much is it?

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:43 am  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

It does now but it didn't used to.

The 5/6 nations has always been a huge money generator for all the home nations. It has underpinned the club game for decades.

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:54 am  

Maverick Rhino wrote:

Leeds significantly disadvantaged as they are playing the French team on the weekend of this pointless international, obviously Catalans will not be artificially weakened for this game with no England call ups.

Ridiculous.

Leeds have two players in the squad Castleford have 3, Wigan and Saints also have 2 - so why are Leeds any worse of than teams playing the likes of Wakefield, Widnes, Salford, Leigh that weekend?

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:15 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

The 5/6 nations has always been a huge money generator for all the home nations. It has underpinned the club game for decades.

The club game in rugby union was an amateur sport until 1995.

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:24 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

The club game in rugby union was an amateur sport until 1995.

"Allegedly".

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:00 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

The club game in rugby union was an amateur sport until 1995.

Well that money I received in the late 80s/early 90s must have been a figment of my imagination then

Re: RD 12 | Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos : Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:24 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

The club game in rugby union was an amateur sport until 1995.

The clubs still needed to be run, facilities maintained, kit purchased travel expenses paid

That is where the internationals came in.