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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Nah. Rugby league is a sport we're terrible at because and only because so few people play the sport. I grew up in Warrington, supposedly in the heartlands of the game. How many kids here play the sport? How many schools do? None of the schools I went to did and no one in the schools I went to played it that I know of. Football was and still is everything, it's all consuming. I was a very good athlete at school, running for England twice in my early teens in the 200 and four times in the 400m and playing semi pro football. Never once did anyone suggest I play league and I didn't even know where it was played so never picked a ball up in anger.
I may not have been the English Greg Inglis myself but those who would have been are playing right back for the Nags Head blissfully unaware of their unfulfilled destiny. Thats just in Warrington, the same can be said right across the country.
Add to that the fact that it's dark after school for half of the year, the weather is terrible and it's all about 'not being competitive' at school and it's a miracle we're any good at anything.'"
I grew up in Warrington too and never saw RL been played at Schools level - however I now have kids myself and the situation is very different due in no small part to the excellent schools community programme run by the Warrington club. |
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Kids will continue to be lazy-asses when the only "sports" they see promoted on TV are virtual games on the Wii.
Call me old fashioned, but WTF?
Every night as kids our mums used to have to interupt our "jumpers for goalposts" footie games and drag us back home after dark to send us to bed.
This was only 30 years ago.
The future is grim for the state of peoples health in general, not just the production of future sports stars. Teach kids a healthy lifestyle and they grow up with that mentality and become less of a strain on our NHS in the future.
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| Quote Tre Cool="Tre Cool"If you were from St Helens youd probably just be happy to finish a game down the road with your mates and get back in time to mow the lawn and have dinner with the mrs.
That's why we're so s**t at international level, half our most talented players aren't winners.'"
If I was from St Helens my computer would be stolen, I'd be unemployed, I'd be missing teeth and my wife would have more tattoos than I do! |
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| Quote The Glorious League Freak="The Glorious League Freak"If I was from St Helens my computer would be stolen, I'd be unemployed, I'd be missing teeth and my wife would have more tattoos than I do!'"
Stop dreaming! We can't afford to get married in St Helens. |
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| Quote The Glorious League Freak="The Glorious League Freak"If I was from St Helens my computer would be stolen, I'd be unemployed, I'd be missing teeth and my wife would have more tattoos than I do!'"
Please move to St Helens |
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| Quote TheOtherOne="TheOtherOne"Stop dreaming! We can't afford to get married in St Helens.'"
Instead of Wife I should have said punching bag.
I am sorry about that! |
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| Quote pyeman="pyeman"In your opinion. For me the trophy which shows which team was consistantly the best throughout the course of the season has a lot of value. A team could struggle all year, be half way down the table and get lucky or there opponants might struggle with injuries/fatigue. Its possible a side could win the grand final by fluke, but you wont come top of the league unless your the best side in the competition.'"
And the results from all the Grand Finals -bar one - since the competition began have been contested between the teams finishing in the top two places of the league.
You could also say that with the skewing of the fixture list over the last few years and the fact that the league leadership has been decided by the odd point or two for the same period(apart from 2004 of course), that actually the lead leaders shield does not clearly define the Champion team. Champion teams perform on big occasions, that's what sport is all about. |
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| Quote DHM="DHM"And the results from all the Grand Finals -bar one - since the competition began have been contested between the teams finishing in the top two places of the league.
You could also say that with the skewing of the fixture list over the last few years and the fact that the league leadership has been decided by the odd point or two for the same period(apart from 2004 of course), that actually the lead leaders shield does not clearly define the Champion team. Champion teams perform on big occasions, that's what sport is all about.'"
Leeds must be poor then, they bottle the Challenge Cup every year. |
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I think the 'Champion' team should be the best team. Now we play every team home and away we should give the 'Champion' title to the team finishing top. The Grand Final could be a separtae competition and be great also. The Premier League and Champions League are 2 separate competions in football but are equally as important.
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| Quote Dougy="Dougy"I think the 'Champion' team should be the best team. Now we play every team home and away we should give the 'Champion' title to the team finishing top. The Grand Final could be a separtae competition and be great also. The Premier League and Champions League are 2 separate competions in football but are equally as important.'"
How do you make an 8-team end-of-season cup as important as the league title? Remember how great the 'Premiership' was? |
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| Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"How do you make an 8-team end-of-season cup as important as the league title? Remember how great the 'Premiership' was?'"
When St Helens beat Wigan in the 1993 Prem Final. I was ecstatic, personally. So far as, an anticlimactic post-league competition of friendlies... nah. |
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| Quote FearTheVee="FearTheVee"Leeds must be poor then, they bottle the Challenge Cup every year.'"
What's that got to do with the point I made? Did I mention your Stains or Leeds for that matter, are you just in the mood to pathetically kick off for no reason? |
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