probably why 7 million people live in London then ?

not to mention the hundreds of thousand commuters who travel daily to the metropolis maybe ?

Yes but it's still a dump , maybe just like Leigh , but bigger , we haven't yet reached the point where when advertising jobs in shop/bar windows , we have to request that applicants speak English , admittedly there aren't any jobs , but we still have 99 percent of our population that can speak the language

I haven't visited London other than to watch sport or on business a couple of times , I have no wish to , I don't like large cities , they are full of ignorant d...heads , I recently had to drive through Manchester during the rush hour , I only wish I had been in a 50 ton tank then I could have ' cleansed ' the place of a few hundred

Have you just slated London, then said you've hardly ever been there?

can't disagree with any of that mate,though I have family in London who really love being there,I lived and worked there in the 70s and it was great especially with all the big sporting events to watch - it takes all sorts ! - I have friends in Norwich who commute daily to London for £20 grand a year more than they can earn in norfolk

met an english chap in Limoges the other day from Haverhill in sleepy suffolk,a town of about 20,000 people - apparently the local Tescos has a check-out 'manned' by polish speaking staff ! - ok,I know britain has changed a lot since I lived there and I am naiive but that really takes the biscuit for me !

I have visited to watch sport and a couple of times on business , I wasn't impressed , just as we have people on here slating Leigh after 1 visit to the LSV

I don't like any large cities jonny , and I'm not having anybody having a ' pop ' and not getting a reply

Cities are nothing more than groups of small towns all clumped together , and yet some try to make out they are superior , and the people in them superior , they aren't

What's the general pop at Leigh? I can't be bothered going through a 16 page thread.

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Is that it?

You get wound up too easily mate.

Don't take no s... From these cockneys

this thread was started by a kiwi who says he has to deal with the smell of english people as he lives in london, so if your a kiwi what are you doing in england don't you have a nice country to go back to if england is so bad? London is the capital of england one of the best citys in the world wouldn't really be that bothered if i was from leigh its hardly a great deal not to have a better town than the capital of england. As far as the small attendence there was alot of noise and passion being show as widdop went in for that last try so that makes up for it.

But was the Boars Head full pre and post match

It foes not happen at domestic level so why should it at any other. Fair enough have different prices between stands but not within a stand it's stupid.

Can you point out where I said this was leighs fault please?

Never had a problem at any other ground, why can't you just face it I don't like the ground get over it.

In my experience of Haverhill supermarkets, most of the checkouts will be 'manned' by Polish speaking staff. It's a new town where most of the population commute to Cambridge or Stansted for work. Any low paid jobs (waitress, bar & shop staff, factory work etc) round here will have mostly East Europeans doing it - and we'd be stuffed without them. If you want a more extreme example, try some of the back lanes through the Cambridgeshire fens and see the 'slow down' signs for drivers written in 15+ European languages. You don't get too many British workers in the fields picking vegetables.

Back on topic - we've had three enjoyable internationals on tv this weekend, all with 10K+ crowds (Aus v NZ, England v Wales, France v Scotland). Well done to Leigh, Warrington & Perpignan - all the events seem to have gone smoothly. Plenty of England cricket matches won't have 10k in attendance, same for GB Davis Cup tennis & I've been to England or Wales RL games in the past that had half that number in attendance. No way can you call this a 'poor' crowd.

I don't see reason to be embarrassed. We're a small-medium-sized sport - sometimes an extremely entertaining one - trying to increase attendances for national and domestic games. Embarrassment over attendances only comes about through trying to pretend we're something we're very obviously not.

Have you missed a word out? Shouldn't you have said "massively boring international matches". The Rugby Union world cup was the biggest crock of sporting sheeite that's ever been televised. Any Rugby League player that moves to union is doing it purely and simply for the money. The wingers that play for England Rugby Union may as well sit in the stand with the rest of the crowd for the amount they are actually involved in the game.

is the 'minimum wage' in the uk just a myth then ?

Not at all. Round here, jobs paying minimum wage tend to be filled by people who don't speak much English. Supermarket staff(for example) do need to speak English & get more than minimum wage. Of course, illegal immigrants working for dubious gangmasters probably get rather less than minimum wage, but they seem to have clamped down pretty hard on that stuff in the past couple of years.

Cant you post without having a pop about Hull.

99.9% of my posts have had no relevance to Hull.

HTH.

10,377 the crowd... leigh wont hold much more will it anyway?? dont think its that bad seeing as england were always going to win, was on bbc and a game down the road the night before

though the crowd for the aus v nz game was a good one night before too 14k.

think next week at wembley could be bad though, any idea how may tickets have been sold??

Hmmmmm.....So why wouldnt you watch rugby in Hull then.Great stadium in which to watch it in.

Seen a few of your posts and you do like to partake in a bit of FC bashing....theres a thread on here about our changes and you have posted on there.

Absolutely RL has rarely got big crowds only England vs Australia in England or Australia and Australia vs. NZ in Australia.wo matches regularly generate crowds over 20k. The crowds so far have been at least as good as expected the LSV being the best all things considered.

RL fans follow clubs rather than follow RL as a sport, which is rather strange only once every 2 or 3 years they get the chance to see the best players in the NRL you would have thought that is a big incentive to go to the matches.

Rather embarrasing that we couldnt sell it out plus i think the venue needs looking at in future...the car parking was a joke...a steward told us to park where we wanted...the over-flow carpark was a 15min walk down a dual-carriageway with no footpath.....1 poxy bar,2 burger vans and nothing at all for speccies to do who had got there early.

sorry to off topic again but,
so,who are the actual people on the dole then (2.5 million ish ?) ?

is it that the indigenous population - the british don't want these jobs ?

do they automatically get higher paid jobs because they are not 'immigrants' from eastern europe ?

or are the british peolpe quite happy to be on the dole and 'milk' the benefit system where they are better off ?

i'm not taking the p**s,just asking out of pure ignorance