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| Fast track a scottish club into super league. That way the RFL/SKY could throw wakey and cas out together next year.
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| It does make us paranoic's think that way!!
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| Quote GET EM ON SIDE REF="GET EM ON SIDE REF"When are us folk in West/East YorkshireLancashire and Cumbria and the idiots who run the game going to wake up and smell the coffee
The fact is RL is and always will be a regional sport. But what is so wrong with that it’s survived this long without the crazy dream of expansion
All the evidence is there Fulham etc Carlisle Mansfield etc Kent etc Cardiff
Celtic Scarborough Gateshead
When will we get the message that the vast majority of areas in the UK prefer Rugby Union and Football they may enjoy the odd game on sky but that’s not going to make them turn out week in week out and support a new club is it'"
When will the flat cappers in Wakefield, castleford, huddersfield and the M62 corridor wake up and smell the coffee & realise that unless RL improves its national and geographical profile it will be a DEAD game played by amateurs as top athletes will go and play other sports 
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| Quote Durham Giant="Durham Giant"When will the flat cappers in Wakefield, castleford, huddersfield and the M62 corridor wake up and smell the coffee & realise that unless RL improves its national and geographical profile it will be a DEAD game played by amateurs as top athletes will go and play other sports
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OK - what exactly do you mean by "improves its national and geographical profile" and how do you propose that RL actually goes ahead and does it?
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| Quote Durham Giant="Durham Giant"When will the flat cappers in Wakefield, castleford, huddersfield and the M62 corridor wake up and smell the coffee & realise that unless RL improves its national and geographical profile it will be a DEAD game played by amateurs as top athletes will go and play other sports
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How fortunate that the flat cappers in Wakefield, castleford, huddersfield and the M62 corridor pay to keep this great game going.If it was left to the Londoners, Welsh or French, just what do you think you would be watching now? It certainly would'nt be League.I find it quite amazing that our fore fathers, had the foresight to see a motorway being built in the 20 century to keep this Great Game alive. As for smelling the coffee, if those so called "top athletes" were any good at any other sport that payed more money, do you think they would really be playing RL? I doubt it very much.
As for being a flatcapper.I find it offensive that every time anyone says anything against expansion or the beloved"SL" they are a "FLATCAPPER". I've been watching the game nearly 60 years and have seen it being diluted to the game we have now. First the 1980s with too many over rated "Aussies" comming to feather their nests back home, to the SL era ie no P&R and franchising.
As for National or Geographical, in 30 odd years of the capital haveing a team maybe "ONE" perhaps no more have made the National team. The same goes for the Welsh.
As for dying, as I see it, the only thing that is going to kill this Great Game off is the "NOT" treating "ALL" the Rugby fraternity the same, as the usurpers are.
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| Quote Durham Giant="Durham Giant"When will the flat cappers in Wakefield, castleford, huddersfield and the M62 corridor wake up and smell the coffee & realise that unless RL improves its national and geographical profile it will be a DEAD game played by amateurs as top athletes will go and play other sports
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Seem to remember your club helping to improve the sport expand by swallowing up Sheffield Eagles,yeah, a big thank you for your expansionist policy!!!! 
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| Quote JINJER="JINJER"Seem to remember your club helping to improve the sport expand by swallowing up Sheffield Eagles,yeah, a big thank you for your expansionist policy!!!!
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| Quote JINJER="JINJER"Seem to remember your club helping to improve the sport expand by swallowing up Sheffield Eagles,yeah, a big thank you for your expansionist policy!!!!
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Yes unfortunatly the Cof E at Sheffield who helped to steer his team into oblivion was no other than Ralph Rimmer who has just been taken on by Abbot and Costello to oversee the expantionist programme . Talk about lunatecs runing the assylum, I think if the rules of geting into Super League was the same for everone no one would bother. It`s the moving of goalposts to ensure certain teams fit the criteria that gets other fans riled.
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| Quote johnny freeman fan club="johnny freeman fan club"Yes unfortunatly the Cof E at Sheffield who helped to steer his team into oblivion was no other than Ralph Rimmer who has just been taken on by Abbot and Costello to oversee the expantionist programme . Talk about lunatecs runing the assylum, I think if the rules of geting into Super League was the same for everone no one would bother. It`s the moving of goalposts to ensure certain teams fit the criteria that gets other fans riled.'"

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| Quote johnny freeman fan club="johnny freeman fan club"Yes unfortunatly the Cof E at Sheffield who helped to steer his team into oblivion was no other than Ralph Rimmer who has just been taken on by Abbot and Costello to oversee the expantionist programme . Talk about lunatecs runing the assylum, I think if the rules of geting into Super League was the same for everone no one would bother. It`s the moving of goalposts to ensure certain teams fit the criteria that gets other fans riled.'"
is it time for the fans to join together and stand up for the credibility of our game ?
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| Quote johnny freeman fan club="johnny freeman fan club"Yes unfortunatly the Cof E at Sheffield who helped to steer his team into oblivion was no other than Ralph Rimmer who has just been taken on by Abbot and Costello to oversee the expantionist programme . Talk about lunatecs runing the assylum, I think if the rules of geting into Super League was the same for everone no one would bother. It`s the moving of goalposts to ensure certain teams fit the criteria that gets other fans riled.'"
That is all.
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| Why dont you all answer the questtions.
The game in this counytry at any reasonable level depend on SKY money.
No Sky the game in this country would only be semi professional at best with only three possible teams competing Hull, Leeds, Wigan. No One else would have a look in. They are the only three teams who have the basics of being run profitably or at break even costs.
No sky money menas there would be NO top players left in this country. No McGuire, Tomkins, Eastmond, Richards etc. Not only that but any decent player coming through the ranks would be playing RU by the age of 21.
Sky sell their little boxes all over the countyry, sky's viewing figures show more people watch RL on there little boxes in the south East than Yorkshire.
SKY have said NO Harlequins no sky money ( they are probably the weakest of the three Expansionist teams Celtic and Catalans).
Get rid of expansion teams and get rid of RL as a profesional sport.
That is why i call you all flat cappers. If you were Turkeys you would be looking forward to Christmas.
And before any of you raise the Ken Davy card. I posted 3 years ago that if Huddersfield did not get a franchise but RL was stronger then so be it.
I love RL more than my own team.
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