Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:06 am  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Two tens works for nobody. Killing off two SL clubs to become part timers and increasing the number of loop fixtures is insanity. Crowds will fall.

LOOP Fixtures So you ask the SKY audience do they want to see?? Salford.v.Leigh for a first time OR Leeds.v.St.Helens for a third time.

One season Leeds played Bradford five times and the fifth crowd was 20,000

The first clash between SL clubs Halifax and Wakefield was before a crowd of 2,800

It's not insanity it's money.

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:25 am  

Donnyman wrote:

So the fact is this 2x10 has been in the pipeline for two years. Recently Superleague negotiated the new SKY deal with the RFL nowhere to be seen. This is the sea change that now brings back the 2 x 10 to the table.


Believe me the decision to stuff the RFL was taken a long time ago.

The RFL have been royally stuffed but SL will not make any move until the season is over, which makes sense. Then they will out 2 x 10 to the vote again and they will win it by offering places in SL2 complete with some decent funding.

The decision on this was made a long time ago, the key was always SL getting control of the SKY money

Some brains along tha M62.I thought you managed to leave your union flag at home and get along to watch Hunslet?
Anyway,the RFL may not have been anywhere to be seen - because they had to go cap in hand to the government of this forsaken country to get some money on behalf of Super League club owners,so they could take some money to keep going.
Put your England monogrammed mug of tea down and teach yourself what is going on.
The Super League re-negotiated the broadcast deal and accepted a lesser deal.I'm sure your other mate,before you kept name-dropping McManus,that failed football guy,Lenagan,assured anyone who would listen that Elstone would strike up far more commercial deals than the Rfl.More abject failure.
Still,this website can't even report on League 1 play-offs - but manage to report on the Ladies games - and allow you to accuse genuine posters as beings Trolls.
The joy of being a rugby league follower...

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:56 am  

Ornery Optimist wrote:

Some brains along tha M62.I thought you managed to leave your union flag at home and get along to watch Hunslet?
Anyway,the RFL may not have been anywhere to be seen - because they had to go cap in hand to the government of this forsaken country to get some money on behalf of Super League club owners,so they could take some money to keep going.
Put your England monogrammed mug of tea down and teach yourself what is going on.
The Super League re-negotiated the broadcast deal and accepted a lesser deal.I'm sure your other mate,before you kept name-dropping McManus,that failed football guy,Lenagan,assured anyone who would listen that Elstone would strike up far more commercial deals than the Rfl.More abject failure.
Still,this website can't even report on League 1 play-offs - but manage to report on the Ladies games - and allow you to accuse genuine posters as beings Trolls.
The joy of being a rugby league follower...

Great post.

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:26 pm  

Ornery Optimist wrote:

Still,this website can't even report on League 1 play-offs - but manage to report on the Ladies games - and allow you to accuse genuine posters as beings Trolls.

for twenty years I have been called a "TROLL" on Rugby League forums. I have to say, the frequency at which Rugby league fans call anyone a troll for having a different opinion is quite frightening...I currently sponsor 2 RL Clubs in the Wellington region, something i've never done for other sports, but because I don't think 2 pit villages playing each other is how the sport will grow, it's a cross i bear.

Donnyman seems hellbent on "outing" folk and crying that posters who disagree with his anti-expansion mantra are killing the site......he's that rabid he's lost sight of the fact that him posting threads like "French RL in trouble' are nothing more than pathetic trolling.......

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:47 pm  

orangeman wrote:

for twenty years I have been called a "TROLL" on Rugby League forums. I have to say, the frequency at which Rugby league fans call anyone a troll for having a different opinion is quite frightening...I currently sponsor 2 RL Clubs in the Wellington region, something i've never done for other sports, but because I don't think 2 pit villages playing each other is how the sport will grow, it's a cross i bear.

Donnyman seems hellbent on "outing" folk and crying that posters who disagree with his anti-expansion mantra are killing the site......he's that rabid he's lost sight of the fact that him posting threads like "French RL in trouble' are nothing more than pathetic trolling.......

That is rlfans to a tee. If you have an opinion that is different to the resident trolls, you are called a troll. I can’t emphasise this enough, but if you want a decent discussion come to Reddit. The game tonight had hundreds of decent comments whilst rlfans had about 3.

It’s people like Donnyman who have ruined the decent discussion on here

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:08 pm  

Ornery Optimist wrote:

Still,this website can't even report on League 1 .

It's not RLFANS fault the RFL refused them a media pass for Ourleague

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:16 am  

Hopie wrote:

It's not RLFANS fault...................

Odd how RLfans doesn't seem to mind being trolled and attacked daily?

Yesterday morning we had some good positive discussions, among genuine posters all morning

I thought the Mods must have dumped the one or maybe two people who ruin the site. I thought they may realise they'd get more "traffic" without the idiots.

Still if the number of posters doesn't affect the advertising revenue then I don't suppose it really matters to those who run the site if it's just a business thing??

But as the Mods seem to like joining in with discussions then it beats me what's going on??

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:09 am  

It’s just another thread drift of tit for tat ‘you’re a troll, no you’re a troll’.

No one comes out as a winner and even when you make valid points they are lost in the guff.

On subject, as has been said I can’t see how 2 x 10 solves the issues we have at the moment in the game without a significant money injection. Moving two down into a rebranded championship (and kicking out the bottom six into the wilderness) won’t change anything in my view.

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:10 am  

In answer to the OP

The 2 x 10 cannot be stopped.

Neither can the late announcement.

Re: What can we do to stop the 10 + 10 : Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:55 am  

Bulls4 wrote:

It’s just another thread drift of tit for tat ‘you’re a troll, no you’re a troll’.

No one comes out as a winner and even when you make valid points they are lost in the guff.

On subject, as has been said I can’t see how 2 x 10 solves the issues we have at the moment in the game without a significant money injection. Moving two down into a rebranded championship (and kicking out the bottom six into the wilderness) won’t change anything in my view.

Not sure it's random thread drift, the one troll (was it capdouze) was banned and came back in two personas, Steph and Silent.

Once they were binned off guess what, two more trolls so that's a big giveway. It's just one twisted person for my money