Mintball Mick wrote:Why do I detect a feeling of sour grapes here?

You'd need to know all of the facts to understand how sour!

<t>If Pendlebury has left, good riddance! His scouting barely extended beyond IRB because he couldn't be bothered to go any further. And he took no notice of the qualified coaches employed by the club because he thought he knew better.<br/> <br/> He has a history of being in and out of the game - no...

<r>See this:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/2008/11/11/joe-lydon-to-be-wru-s-head-of-rugby-91466-22223542/"><s>[url]</s><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/2008/11/11 ... -22223542/">http://www.walesonline.co.uk/2008/11/11/joe-lydon-to-be-wru-s-head-of-rugby-91466-222235...

Poor attendance or not? It was still two thousand more than the table toppers managed last weekend!

<t>I think that sometimes there's no smoke without fire, so rather than right the idea off altogether, I decided to do a few checks.<br/> <br/> I looked at websites for Wakey, Saracens, Wigan (of course), RFL, BBC Sports and Sky Sports. Guess what: none of them mention this rather unlikely move.<br/...

I'm having trouble getting onto the Message Board as well. I assume it got overworked last night.

Either that or it is trying to emulate the Wigan players and just can't be ar*ed!!

standishcat posted:
So basically you would rather see Wigan relegated as long as GB beat the Aussies? :eh:

I fail to see how you've drawn that conclusion from what I've written.

<t>The club v country issue is a real one and highlighted by some of the statements made on this thread. The difference between RL and many other sports such as RU, cricket and football is that the others play fairly frequently throughout the year and therefore build up a following, whereas in RL we...

<t>One of the reasons Internationals are not well supported IMO is that few consider the GB team to be truely competitive with Australia or New Zealand. Maybe the reasons for that is that we perceive that what Phil has said is true: viscious circle!<br/> <br/> I take the view that we will never be c...

I've got a mod league coaching badge!!! And I couldn't make it any worse than the loud mouthed Aussie has.

I know coaches in the junior game that could do a better job than Millward has done so far.

It's simple Milly: shape up or ship out!!!