Rugby League thread

[Ancient Citizen]

In 1948 the home crowd at Wilderspool was 34304.
30000 were common numbers during the 50’s.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

When you look at major trophies won: Wire (12 major trophies), Bradford (14 major trophies), Hull (11 major trophies), Huddersfield (13 major trophies), Swinton (9 major trophies), Widnes (10 major trophies)... all big clubs.

When you look at crowd sizes, both now and historically, Wire have (apart from the last decades of Wildespool) always been up there. You don’t get the biggest crowd in all Northern English sporting history going to watch a small club.

Wire are the only club to have never been relegated n’all.

If Wire are small, so are City Spurs Everton Newcastle Sunderland etc. in football.

But again, I only ever have to come up with reasoning around this to Liverpool, United and Saints fans for both City and Wire. In conversations between normal sports fans, this topic of “big club” never crops up.

Without even having won as many trophies as other clubs, you can be considered big and having a “history” through other ways too.

Salford have won 7 major trophies in their time but when they went to the South of France in the 1930s and the French gave them the name Les Diables Rouge, that is something historical that’s remembered as much as any title win. “Classy Cas” is another example, that Cas team of the 60s only won two Challenge Cups but earnt that nickname mainly from their playing style. But the name sticks to this day as much as any name given to any successful team. “Classy Cas” is a more famous name than “The Entertainers” that Saints were given for their 00s team even though that team won a treble one year and a fair few other honours around that time.

 

[Out on blue 6]

Just watching now and the Eels have a player called Haze Dunster. That's some name

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Wow, this is probably the best game of the play-offs so far!

I’m enjoying rugby league more than I am football this year.

I know the fans are in the stadiums in Aus, which does make a huge difference (feels like the games actually mean something). But I’ve said a few times that even watching games like Wire-Saints in the CC and Wire-Wigan last night with no fans, the actual game on the strip of grass is more exciting than football often is.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Wow, this is probably the best game of the play-offs so far!

I’m enjoying rugby league more than I am football this year.

I know the fans are in the stadiums in Aus, which does make a huge difference (feels like the games actually mean something). But I’ve said a few times that even watching games like Wire-Saints in the CC and Wire-Wigan last night with no fans, the actual game on the strip of grass is more exciting than football often is.

The other big miss for me is that a lot of the RL games were on Friday nights and stood on the terraces with a pint each hand really felt like the start of the weekend.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Just watching now and the Eels have a player called Haze Dunster. That's some name

Great name haha. They love names like that in Aus, there are loads of Trent, Dane, Boyd, Wade, Jarrod, Brent, Brett, Blakes...

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The other big miss for me is that a lot of the RL games were on Friday nights and stood on the terraces with a pint each hand really felt like the start of the weekend.

With that mental trumpet player in the South Stand!

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Great name haha. They love names like that in Aus, there are loads of Trent, Dane, Boyd, Wade, Jarrod, Brent, Brett, Blakes...

Then rugby league fans along the M62 corridor give their kids those sort of names lol

 

[Tim of the Oak]

With that mental trumpet player in the South Stand!

Haha. I tend to go near the scoreboard these days for some harmless banter with the away fans.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Kalyn Ponga is a good one, Cooper Cronk sounds like a rapper from Atlanta, Braith Anasta, Cameron Munster too.