Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:27 am  

Lets hope fans get back into the habit of a London away trip. I'm looking forward to it. No way would I have trailed over to Toronto.

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:57 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Lets hope fans get back into the habit of a London away trip. I'm looking forward to it. No way would I have trailed over to Toronto.

It's not the away fans that London have to worry about, although it was always an excellent away day, it's finding a bigger home and attracting enough of their own fans.
Their current home has a capacity of 3000 and is woefully short of being a SL ground so, lets just hope that they have somewhere lined up and that their long suffering nomadic fans want to make the trip.
David Ward is without doubt coach of the year across the 3 "professional" leagues.

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:07 am  

PopTart wrote:

Time keeping is done by the ref not the big clock I think. Doesn't matter if they mess that up apart from it causing confusion in the crowd.

It's not or it certainly didn't used to be. There are two time keepers, one from each club. The Ref can stop the clock but the timekeepers prsee the H/T and FT buzzer.

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:14 am  

I'm pretty certain that the RFL now provide the Timekeeper

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Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:11 pm  

vastman wrote:

It's not or it certainly didn't used to be. There are two time keepers, one from each club. The Ref can stop the clock but the timekeepers prsee the H/T and FT buzzer.

I wasn't sure, so I stand corrected, but the timekeeper isn't the stadium clock though is it? That I thought was just for the crowd, and they simply try and stop the clock at the same time as the timekeeper.
I don't know for sure. I'm asking rather than telling.

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:54 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I wasn't sure, so I stand corrected, but the timekeeper isn't the stadium clock though is it? That I thought was just for the crowd, and they simply try and stop the clock at the same time as the timekeeper.
I don't know for sure. I'm asking rather than telling.

I hope not, it's usually miles off.

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:28 pm  

I do believe that for televised games the Official RFL Timekeeper is synchronised with the broadcaster so the time on the big screen is in real time. Not sure when the RFL dispensed with Club time keepers but just another area they want to have control over, in the timekeeping case it's not necessarily a bad thing though

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:54 pm  

Million pound game but a ten bob trophy !!!!

Looked like something knocked up by some school kids.

You can always count on RL making a mockery of itself .

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:32 pm  

Prince Buster wrote:

Million pound game but a ten bob trophy !!!!

Looked like something knocked up by some school kids.

You can always count on RL making a mockery of itself .

I'm not sure which is worse, that trophy, or the rFL congratulating Toronto on their promotion on Twitter afterwards

Re: Million pound game : Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:32 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Lets hope fans get back into the habit of a London away trip. I'm looking forward to it. No way would I have trailed over to Toronto.

I'm quite looking forward to a trip to London for this game, make a weekend of it. Assuming the dates all line-up with other commitments.