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| Quote ="Sir Kevin Sinfield"How far Parramatta, Wollongong, Newcastle, Gold Coast, Brisbane and North Queensland Cowboys from Sydney airport? It’s one 6 hour flight a year for an away game shouldn’t be a problem, NRL sides have to fly regularly and as you said if this was an issue they should have never entered league 1 and the Championship'"
Add to that Brisbane and Townsville are coaround 5-6 hours from Auckland similar to Toronto.
I for one will hopefully make the trip to Toronto if I can fit it in.
And as for other away teams it really is not a big deal
I have heard the stumbling block is just one well known Super league chairman from a well known Lancashire club who point blank does not want them in and is stamping his feet.
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| Quote ="rollin thunder"Add to that Brisbane and Townsville are coaround 5-6 hours from Auckland similar to Toronto.
I for one will hopefully make the trip to Toronto if I can fit it in.
And as for other away teams it really is not a big deal
I have heard the stumbling block is just one well known Super league chairman from a well known Lancashire club who point blank does not want them in and is stamping his feet.'"
It is a big issue, a very big issue, jet lag is a pain in the backside and not easy until you are used to it. Travelling 5-6 hours in the same time zone is absolutely nothing the same as travelling to the other side of world.
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| Quote ="Gotcha"It is a big issue, a very big issue, jet lag is a pain in the backside and not easy until you are used to it. Travelling 5-6 hours in the same time zone is absolutely nothing the same as travelling to the other side of world.'"
Professional sports teams with forward planning should be able to manage jet lag quite easily, and phase training schedules Before and after to adjust. it's not like they have to be back to normal and back at a normal job at 8am Monday morning. Plus 5 hour time difference is fairly mild jet lag it's not like a 8-12 hour time difference. You are Totally over blowing the effects, of a flight to Toronto.
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| Jet lag seems to get me the day after I arrive when I come from USA
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| Is there anyone from the club in Australia right now on recruitment business?
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| I never seem to suffer with jet lag on the way there but the day after landjng back home is bad.
I dont think jet lag will be too much of an issue but if they are allowed large block fuxtures it will give them a huge advantage in my opinion. If they dont have to travel often and they are playing teams weekly who have travelled it has to be an advantage.
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| Quote ="Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!"I never seem to suffer with jet lag on the way there but the day after landjng back home is bad.
I dont think jet lag will be too much of an issue but if they are allowed large block fuxtures it will give them a huge advantage in my opinion. If they dont have to travel often and they are playing teams weekly who have travelled it has to be an advantage.'"
On the flip side it would be a huge disadvantage to them to play alternate home and away.
There needs to be some arrangement whereby they could play 2 or 3 games home, 2 or 3 away etc.
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| A discussion about jet lag wasn’t a place i thought this thread would go when I started it
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| Quote ="Him"On the flip side it would be a huge disadvantage to them to play alternate home and away.
There needs to be some arrangement whereby they could play 2 or 3 games home, 2 or 3 away etc.'"
This is a completely sensible solution to any sane person
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| I agree 2 or 3 but no more. However i think they are looking at Toronto playing all their home gsmes in a block in the middle of the seasom which is just ridiculous.
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| Quote =“Him”On the flip side it would be a huge disadvantage to them to play alternate home and away.'"
But that would be their choice to join that set up. We should not change for one club.
Quote =“Him”There needs to be some arrangement whereby they could play 2 or 3 games home, 2 or 3 away etc.'"
No there doesn’t. You don’t change rules for one club only.
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| Change of Subject rumours that Merrin may not be coming back as his partner is pregnant among other things that happened in his life
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| Quote ="Gotcha"But that would be their choice to join that set up. We should not change for one club.
No there doesn’t. You don’t change rules for one club only.'"
Oh come on. Yes we do. Like we gave Catalans protection from relegation in their first few seasons. And it’s a good job we did. Otherwise they’d have gone down in their first season.
The league change the rules for clubs all the time. Clubs often get allowances made for them in the fixture list. Whether it’s for football clubs they share with, for their pitch being relaid or for stadium redevelopments.
In the NRL the Warriors consistently don’t play alternate home and away.
The principal is already there. It’s just a matter of finding a middle ground.
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| Totally agree HIM.
If as a sport we want to include Toronto and the likes of Ottawa and New York you have to make certain concessions.
We can of course just stick to teams around the M62.
Some people just want their cake and to eat it.
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| Doesnt look like Trent Merrin will be with us next season unfortunately.
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| GH must have sworn everytime the wages were paid - Yorkshire war cry "Ow Much"
Big sigh of relieve from the CEO - 2 marquee players gone in a season - plenty cap room for more Donaldson and Crosbys!!
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| Well if Merrin does go, and I know this isn’t a universally popular view, but it gives us a chance to plan for a better balance in the side. We’ve been chasing our tails reacting for over a year and this could be a new direction for us.
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| he was our best player. by a million miles. we might have hone down without him.
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| Given the news about Merrin my expectations at present are significantly reduced
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| Merrin going just when we seemed to be getting things together two steps forward one step back.i interesting to see Leeds have put a time limit on him finding a new club.so hopefully this can be concluded quickly and Leeds may already have someone lined up
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| Exciting that we will have our home grown talent for next season, 22 players in total. L Briscoe, Broadbent, Dupree, Gale (when announced), Handley, Holroyd, Johnson, McLelland, McConnell, Mustapha, Newman, OConnor, Oledzki, Singleton, Smith, Sutcliffe, Sutcliffe, Trout, Waite-Pullan, Walker, Walters, Ward will all be have a squad number.
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| If Merrin goes it gives us the chance to sign an overseas marquee half back, presuming we haven’t already signed Luke Gale
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| Quote ="Sir Kevin Sinfield"If Merrin goes it gives us the chance to sign an overseas marquee half back, presuming we haven’t already signed Luke Gale'"
Too late for that, but possibly a marquee hooker or forward.
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| Without merrin we could well have gone down this season. If he goes getting a suitable replacement will be key to next season
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| You do start to wonder what the point of signing Aussies as marquee players is though. They chase the cash for a year or two then look to go back at the first sniff of a half decent contract.
I'd much rather we signed top class British talent. I know they are not immune to the lure of the NRL but it's a much bigger choice for a British player to go then for an Aussie to go back home.
We have had much more success over the years with the less 'popular' Aussies signings such as Kylie, Delaney, Hidden to name just 3.
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