This years grand final entertainment. James. A step up from the usual tripe that the RFL attract.
But compaired to Def Leppard at the NFL London regular league game it's still pretty lame.

Not one of the better bands to come out of Manchester, but it could be worse.

'still pretty lame'???? they're amazing!!! Sold it for me (oh, that and Fartown will obviously be playing.....)

Trust them to finally pick a decent band when I'm not going.

NFL annual turnover: $9bn
RFL annual turnover: £14.5m

Not sure how much money has to do with it, def leppard Yorkshire band has any body bothered asking them to play at GF or CC. Don't ask you don't get.

Well, if you want cheap tickets and discount codes for the GF then you'll get budget entertainment. IIRC the NFL games at Wembley were pretty expensive to attend.

a crap band, even at their height, even their "best" song didn't make the top ten.

to be fair, chart success isn't always the measure of what makes a good band. they're decent, not great, but have a much bigger nal of well known songs that most people realise

their most well known song reached no.2

Laid ?

As if "the top 10" is the yardstick for crapness! (Are you a big Joe Dolce fan?)

Any band that God (Neil Young) picks to play a series of gigs as his support is, objectively, not a "crap" band.

I'm no James fanatic but they are a fine band to watch, nowadays so crap that they most recently headlined on the Friday at Bestival last month - and got invariably [url=http://www.supajam.com/review/show/Camp-Bestival---James-1fine reviews.[/url. My lad was there and he says they were excellent and went down a storm. On that basis alone, seeing them for free at the GF is a bit of a coup, tbh.

I'm not that into The Smiths either but although they hardly ever troubled the "Top 10" I don't think many would cite that as evidence they're "crap".

Def Leppard were made for the NFL. Inane chants in a stadium is right up their street. Awful band who promised so much in their early days. They should have got The Temperance Movement to do it for me. Good party band.

Rather them than Def Leppard any day

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His musical knowledge is about as impressive as his RL knowledge



[iSit Down[/i made the top ten twice. Seven top ten albums, too.

As you say chart placings are no indicator of talent. Westlife had fourteen UK numbers one singles; The Who, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, REM all had none.

Sit Down never made the top ten, but it's not like you to be completely wrong, is it?

crap band, crap music, cheap old stagers.

Isn't number 2 or 7 in the top 10?

There's not a curtain raiser is there?

Never let it be said that Rugby League is a Northern sport stuck in the past

Yep, if there was ever any doubt that rugby league fans will moan about literally [ianything[/i, this thread should prove it once and for all

Yes it did.

It reached number two in April 1991 for three weeks. Held off number one by Chesney Hawkes. Also made number seven when re-issued in 1998.

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Feel feel to admit you were wrong (again).

ac/dc have had no top ten hit singles, yet almost everybody would love them to play at the GF (not that they would ever entertain anything like this - they have even turned down the superbowl half time show in the past)

btw Sit down might be James most successful song, but Laid or Sound i reckon are their best

The teletubbies and wigfeild have top 10 hits, as does all the rubbish from x factor.

As for James, it's a matter of musical taste. Some people are very narrow and only like 80's leopard skin mimers, but you know they have their place.

Personally James is a pretty decent gig. It ain't the stones but certainly a step up on def leopard.

I can name zero def leopard songs off the top of my head, james I think 3, laid, she's a star and sit down.

Greenday would have been good, but hey, it's a RL match not a gig we are going to. The key for any opening group is have a recognizable sing along song. And they certainly have that in sit down.

Maybe next year the prodigy???

Highway To Hell got to No 4 December 2013. An attempt to stop Cowell's clones from having the Xmas No 1 I think.

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