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It's rumoured that Ottawa Aces will be playing in league 1 next year and will be playing their home games at Odsal Stadium. How do we all feel about this? Personally I have no problem with this and the more contributing to the upkeep of the ground the better.
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Well I hope they pay their Bill's and are not fly by night. lol.
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Pointless exercise really. Wouldn't trust Perez as far as I could throw Nigel Wood.
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If they are going to actually do this, what is the point of the Ottowa Aces? Is there a great thirst for watching old Aussies play third-tier rugby on the telly over there?
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If they play all games in the UK then what's the point? I don't understand the concept.
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the idea will be to play in Ottawa once travel is resolved
I accept this then asks the next question, is there a market for it but that question was appropriate before Covid when they applied
The Odsal home game will be 12 as a needs much option
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I was open-minded about Toronto and whilst they existed Ottawa seemed like a logical next step. Without Toronto, Ottawa seems beyond pointless.
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Is this a rumour with any credance? I can't find any mention of this anywhere...
IF true, and it makes sense with the Nigel Wood / Eric Perez link - then there could be a 'method in the madness' with some sort of 'dual reg' arrangement whereby our fringe players could play games for 'Ottawa' (and I use that term loosely)
It [icould[/i be a way of Race, Jowitt, O'Hanlon, Ho et al getting some game time
But I'll believe it when I see it
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| Quote ="paulwalker71"Is this a rumour with any credance? I can't find any mention of this anywhere...
IF true, and it makes sense with the Nigel Wood / Eric Perez link - then there could be a 'method in the madness' with some sort of 'dual reg' arrangement whereby our fringe players could play games for 'Ottawa' (and I use that term loosely)
It [icould[/i be a way of Race, Jowitt, O'Hanlon, Ho et al getting some game time
But I'll believe it when I see it'"
It's mentioned on the Love Rugby website. |
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I'll wait and see if anyone else reports it before I believe it.
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It [icould[/i be a way of Race, Jowitt, O'Hanlon, Ho et al getting some game time
But I'll believe it when I see it'"
Couldn’t they just play for our reserves next year? Fair enough league 1 would be a higher standard |
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| Quote ="paulwalker71"Is this a rumour with any credance? I can't find any mention of this anywhere...
IF true, and it makes sense with the Nigel Wood / Eric Perez link - then there could be a 'method in the madness' with some sort of 'dual reg' arrangement whereby our fringe players could play games for 'Ottawa' (and I use that term loosely)
It [icould[/i be a way of Race, Jowitt, O'Hanlon, Ho et al getting some game time
But I'll believe it when I see it'"
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Ottawa have tonight confirmed they are ‘permanently relocating to the uk’.
Will they revert back to Hemel? Or something else entirely?
I’m not sure of the make up of the proposed Ottawa set up but wouldn’t it be nice if any proposed money men and investors could stick with the game in the UK. Invest in a UK team?
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It makes sense TO THEM
I think the idea is bonkers |
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OK the announcement is here
https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham. |
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OK the announcement is here
https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham. | |
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Quote ="paulwalker71"OK the announcement is here
https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham.'"
How about somewhere with a BD postcode but outside of the city? Like Silsden or Bingley out that way? Then people don’t have to travel across the city to watch professional rugby league. |
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https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham.'"
How about somewhere with a BD postcode but outside of the city? Like Silsden or Bingley out that way? Then people don’t have to travel across the city to watch professional rugby league. | |
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There’s literally nothing out that way sports wise. Not when it comes to rugby league that I can think of. You know out towards Skipton that way. |
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Quote ="paulwalker71"OK the announcement is here
https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham.'"
An Ottawa club permanently based in the UK with Aussie players is not an Ottawa team. It’s a ridiculous concept. If it does happen and as you say expands the footprint of this great game I’d support the ideas of promoting local rivalries. May be a club in Sunderland or Durham to become rivals with Newcastle, or Rotherham or Barnsley to go up against Sheffield or Doncaster. I know these are still Northern clubs but I have always felt that expansion should flow slowly outwards (geographically) from our heartlands over many years (which should have been done 30 years ago) instead of just plonking a club in London, Paris, Scarborough etc.
The amateur game is very very popular all over the country which always surprises me that when a club enters championship 1 there isn’t more local support for them. |
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Quote ="paulwalker71"OK the announcement is here
https://www.ottawaaces.com/club-announcement/
Clearly we are now discussing something different. I’d assumed the original idea was to base Ottawa at Odsal until COVID allowed them to play in Canada.
We are now talking about totally relocating to a new location permanently. Remember they bought the Hemel license, so they can base themselves somewhere and just crack on as if Ottawa never happened.
I assume that means Odsal is off the table as you surely can’t just have another Bradford club playing out of OdsaI? I hope it will be somewhere that expands the footprint of the game, perhaps Bristol or Nottingham.'"
An Ottawa club permanently based in the UK with Aussie players is not an Ottawa team. It’s a ridiculous concept. If it does happen and as you say expands the footprint of this great game I’d support the ideas of promoting local rivalries. May be a club in Sunderland or Durham to become rivals with Newcastle, or Rotherham or Barnsley to go up against Sheffield or Doncaster. I know these are still Northern clubs but I have always felt that expansion should flow slowly outwards (geographically) from our heartlands over many years (which should have been done 30 years ago) instead of just plonking a club in London, Paris, Scarborough etc.
The amateur game is very very popular all over the country which always surprises me that when a club enters championship 1 there isn’t more local support for them. | |
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Bang goes the New York venture then...
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Oh Dear. Donnyman will be having pups!
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Will be playing in Cornwall next season
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Feel sorry for the poor sods that draw them for the Monday night game on Premier sports.
The closest club to them is West Wales Raiders and that’s still a 12-13 hour round trip on a coach with two drivers.
As for any thoughts of tourists going to watch its Penryn which is on the south coast it’s not a bus or taxi ride from Newquay.
This makes zero sense. Plymouth, Exeter or Bristol would make more sense to me.
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Clearly the idea remains to get as far away from the heartlands as possible without leaving the British Isles! They might as well be in Ottawa....
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Should've been in an area already with some RL grassroots - Gloucester?
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Why are we so obsessed with setting up teams in these far-flung places when we've not even covered our own heartlands yet. People in areas such as Brighouse and Wyke haven't anyone decent to watch so I think a new team based at Hartshead Moor service station would be really successful.
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