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Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #240 on: October 12, 2021, 02:11:52 PM »
Yep. About three years ago I visited the area to look for graves and visit the memorials to relatives killed in the 1910 Pretoria Pit Disaster.

I arrived in Leigh around 8am and was desperate for a pee. The toilet in Tesco was out of order, so I popped into Wetherspoons. Busiest non-major city, non-touristy Spoons that I've seen at that time of the morning.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #241 on: October 12, 2021, 02:57:57 PM »
Yep. About three years ago I visited the area to look for graves and visit the memorials to relatives killed in the 1910 Pretoria Pit Disaster.

I arrived in Leigh around 8am and was desperate for a pee. The toilet in Tesco was out of order, so I popped into Wetherspoons. Busiest non-major city, non-touristy Spoons that I've seen at that time of the morning.

When we lived there, there was a "fun pub" on the corner that was always ridiculously busy on a Sunday night. Not a town or a job that I have any fond memories about at all.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #242 on: October 12, 2021, 08:46:35 PM »
I have no interest in Rugby League, on the basis that the support play is terrible and it's just glorified Rugby Union Sevens.

However, I decided a couple of years ago that Leigh Centurions are my team, due to my 3x Great Grandparents moving to Atherton in the 1870s.

Plenty of distant Redsox relations still in the Leigh area. :)

I see that their sojourn to Super League (as a replacement for Toronto) ended after just one season

I like Rugby League. The closest sport to NFL.

Whereas Rugby Union just seems like an excuse for fat posh blokes to hug each other for ages.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #243 on: October 14, 2021, 07:10:35 PM »
Yes. In related news, SWMBO's boss has been called up in front of the 'commission' for laying into the refs' decisions via the press.

Does he own the team?

Yes, Bernard Guasch.






Quote from: some internet site
It seems meat is the way forward for Super League owners of clubs beginning with the letter ‘C’, with Catalans backer Bernard Guasch at the head of a meat processing company. Nicknamed ‘Bernard the Butcher’, Guasch has been integral for the Dragons in recent seasons with the Frenchman ploughing extra finances – and his own private jet – into the club to help them compete in Super League in 2020. Guasch finally saw rewards for his investment when the Dragons lifted the Challenge Cup in 2018.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #244 on: January 30, 2022, 07:18:31 PM »
Catalans Dragons have won their first pre-season friendly against Toulouse 26-10.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #245 on: February 08, 2022, 06:43:29 PM »
Tumbleweed emoticon.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #246 on: February 08, 2022, 07:01:12 PM »
They should be up there again this season. Toulouse not so much.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #247 on: February 08, 2022, 07:58:06 PM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/60291630

Season preview although half of it seems to be about Saints

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #248 on: February 08, 2022, 08:12:38 PM »
Not overly optimistic for Huddersfield

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #249 on: February 08, 2022, 09:32:30 PM »
My team, in a sport that I have zero interest in, is Leigh.

I’ll be back in the town in a few weeks researching the Lancashire branch of the Redsox family and plan to buy a shirt.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #250 on: February 08, 2022, 11:59:58 PM »
Stay somewhere else, it’s a shithole.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #251 on: February 19, 2022, 06:33:33 AM »
Bernard Guasch had a heart attack yesterday. He should be ok though. Lovely bloke, except when the Dragons lose and he takes it out on his sales team.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #252 on: February 19, 2022, 07:38:53 PM »
Catalans Dragons beat Wakefield 24-22 today. Good work!

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #253 on: May 28, 2022, 04:51:06 PM »
Always seems to be the baddies that win at the end.

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Re: Rugby League
« Reply #254 on: May 28, 2022, 04:57:55 PM »
Always seems to be the baddies that win at the end.

I've been flicking between this and the fourth division play off final.  Both enjoyable and I'm rooting for Huddersfield as they're as good as us when it comes to the cup.

 


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