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Offline noahrob

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on: 10 Dec 2020, 04:38:02 pm
Newcastle Thunder have won the race for the final Championship spot.


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Reply #1 on: 10 Dec 2020, 09:30:36 pm
Newcastle Thunder have won the race for the final Championship spot.

Good luck to them.

Possibly 12 English teams, 1 French and Australhaven

Be a competitive league


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Reply #2 on: 10 Dec 2020, 09:58:24 pm
Them grapes are sour eh  ;D


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Reply #3 on: 10 Dec 2020, 11:09:22 pm
Them grapes are sour eh  ;D

The wine tastes better in France than Australia


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Reply #4 on: 11 Dec 2020, 06:54:21 am
Think for some people it's a matter of opinion mate


Offline Championess2019

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Reply #5 on: 11 Dec 2020, 07:57:40 am
The bitter jameater driviling on again.


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Reply #6 on: 11 Dec 2020, 08:58:39 am
Them grapes are sour eh  ;D

The wine tastes better in France than Australia

It will taste better going to Newcastle than the long taxi to Wales enjoy
born and bred haven.


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Reply #7 on: 11 Dec 2020, 01:20:24 pm
Congratulations to Thunder. I wasn’t massively fussed whether town were accepted or not, I believe it was too early for us with a relatively young side to be able to compete it the championship.
Hopefully one day soon town will be back in the championship alongside Haven where both teams belong.
Good luck to both sides for the 2021 season.


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Reply #8 on: 11 Dec 2020, 01:46:45 pm
Congratulations to Thunder. I wasn’t massively fussed whether town were accepted or not, I believe it was too early for us with a relatively young side to be able to compete it the championship.
Hopefully one day soon town will be back in the championship alongside Haven where both teams belong.
Good luck to both sides for the 2021 season.

Think barrow will walk league 1 next season but fancy town to sneak up via play offs there's nowt between teams like town Donny Keighley and Rochdale so got as good a chance as any of the others


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Reply #9 on: 02 Dec 2022, 09:20:34 pm
Thunder have signed Marcus Walker from Hull FC, he was on loan at Whitehaven last season scoring 1 try in 13 appearances.


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Reply #10 on: 02 Dec 2022, 11:41:59 pm
Curtis Davies has signed on for thunder to


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Reply #11 on: 13 Oct 2023, 08:59:16 am
Sadly it appears that Newcastle Thunder have gone to the wall following relegation to League One.
https://www.thunderrugby.co.uk/article/786/statement-from-newcastle-thunder
League One is now left with eight teams...


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Reply #12 on: 13 Oct 2023, 09:39:40 am
Time to just have 2 leagues


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Reply #13 on: 13 Oct 2023, 11:08:39 am
London and now Newcastle folding. Maybe now the rugby league will realise that it's time to stop trying to spread the game to areas that don't play the sport.
In these times it's hard enough keeping traditional rugby league clubs afloat.
Start supporting the clubs from the heartlands and helping them to stay in business.


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Reply #14 on: 13 Oct 2023, 05:08:15 pm
How much time, effort and money have the RFL spent on expansion clubs over the years, plonking sides in metropolitan or Southern areas with big football clubs?

They need to learn to grow organically; if you can't get a decent club in somewhere like Preston, a few miles from the likes of Wigan and Saints, then what chance in these far flung, isolated places?

Sheffield was the logical progression geographically, just outside the established areas but you also can't ignore the dominance of football in the UK. There is a reason places like St Helens, Warrington and Wigan do comparatively well - decent population sizes without big football teams - see also Wigan's drop in gates as soon as their football team grew in stature. Leeds are the one anomaly but their football team has largely underperformed for decades. As much as RL supporters don't like to admit it, people simply prefer their town/city to be on the big national football stage.

You need firm up support in, lets say West Cumbria, and then you try and get the people of Carlisle interested, but not by pushing them to go full time and into SL but by helping the amateur grass roots game build foundations. Once they are fully established with a base of decent local talent, you can then look to go semi-pro. The RFL are always looking for the miraculous silver bullet that catapults Newcastle, Cardiff, Birmingham or London into the top echelons of the game.