For services to Rugby League........

.......this should be a good thread.

Graeme Bradley sends hugs and kisses.

One word

Disgrace

Freemasonry alive and well.....

That's made me squirm a bit

We wait years for an acknowledgement in the Honours, and then...

What is going on


what's going to be next
Arise sir Steve Ganson

Is it not about time a match official won something? An area of the game that is much maligned with everyone having an opinion yet not getting in the middle themselves?

How it can be a disgrace that someone who put themselves in the line of fire from those who know less can be awarded for quite a bit of commitment is beyond me.

Must admit though I agree with the Graham Bradley comment, it was an absolutely terrible decision when he was sent off in his final game, considering he didn't commit an offence worth sending off for. IMO Cummings was getting his own back but let us not forget what an absolute gobe Bradley had been with that mouth of his while playing over here. Not a good time for rugby league when the players openly questioned decisions and weren't dealt with. Definitely a problem that came from McCallum's decision that the refs should go first names with the players so I suppose the counter argument is that if the refs were trying to be matey with the players why shouldn't the players take advantage of it?

Anyway, nice to see the sport get an honour.

Well deserved. www.rfu.com/news/2013/june/news- ... ueens_bday Lots of others in other sports get them all the time. Our sport gets one and our immediate reaction is the deride the one honour we get, every 2 or 3 years. Of course we will snip but he has put a lot into the game before taking it on as a paid job and don't forget he was a ref before that was a full time job. Personally I'm not in favour of people getting paid for a job and then getting honour's, but lots of less deserving people earn a lot more money and get a lot of recognition for it without having contributed anything.

Well deserved. www.rfu.com/news/2013/june/news- ... ueens_bday Lots of others in other sports get them all the time. Our sport gets one and our immediate reaction is the deride the one honour we get, every 2 or 3 years. Of course we will snip but he has put a lot into the game before taking it on as a paid job and don't forget he was a ref before that was a full time job. Personally I'm not in favour of people getting paid for a job and then getting honour's, but lots of less deserving people earn a lot more money and get a lot of recognition for it without having contributed anything.

Make that 2 Martin Coyd, for services to Rugby League. (Gillingham, Kent)- OBE www.kent-lieutenancy.org.uk/kent ... announced/

Make that 2 Martin Coyd, for services to Rugby League. (Gillingham, Kent)- OBE www.kent-lieutenancy.org.uk/kent ... announced/

Three, and hugely well deserved too... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-25546775

Three, and hugely well deserved too... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-25546775

The Cabinet Office is still yet to pick up on my 'MBE for Stevo' campaign!

Quote ="wire quin"Make that 2 Martin Coyd, for services to Rugby League. (Gillingham, Kent)- OBE www.kent-lieutenancy.org.uk/kent ... announced/'" Knowing Martin as I do he will be chuffed to bits but will be more for saying it is an award for everyone like him down at the Medway Dragons. Not a bad bloke, for an ex sapper!!!

Quote ="wire quin"Make that 2 Martin Coyd, for services to Rugby League. (Gillingham, Kent)- OBE www.kent-lieutenancy.org.uk/kent ... announced/'" Knowing Martin as I do he will be chuffed to bits but will be more for saying it is an award for everyone like him down at the Medway Dragons. Not a bad bloke, for an ex sapper!!!

The more MBE's the better. Shows some recognition for the game, regardless of what you think about the awards system in general.

Whilst internally we can wrangle all day long.

External awards should be greeted with a good response. Who knows we may get a few more.

Prescott is an obvious choice, but we could get a few more in there too. Lots of fund raisers in RL circles who have done a lot for the game and the wider community.

Probably the simplest way is to raise it with your MP, petitions are all well and good but awards tend to be from nominated people.

13 years after he cheated Wigan out of a Grand Final win he gets his reward.

Fair play, whatever individuals personal opinions of him are he has served our game well over the years in various roles whether you think he did a good job in those or not. About time this sport and it's people got some recognition.

+1

no Sir Kev

M.B.E. - Makes Bloody Errors !

So that's how he got it

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