Nominate your preference on twitter using the hashtag #wembleystatue , I wonder if they are going to decide who or whom...

This is ridiculous - so many different votes been conducted, then changed, then added to..... They clearly haven't got the result they wanted in the first place!



Ask the RFL about their evaluation of junior development - and the changing of the goal posts whilst you're at it!

What have they changed now??

They'll keep changing it until Offiah wins the poll as that is the only one many of the media know

Wembley is the home of Football, I don't see the relevance of a rugby player being epitomised in bronze statue at there

Also the home of the Challenge Cup final since 1929? just a short amount of time to celebrate all the great rugby players that have played there?

Actually the "Home" of the challenge cup is Headiingley


And was only first contested at wembley in 1929 some 24 years after the first final


Plus It think you'll find that since 1929 the CC final has been played at 11 different venues

Hardley the "Home" of Rugby League

Wembley is the home of English Football not rugby

So that makes the Kennington Oval the home of the FA Cup Final, seeing as the first final was played there and not played at Wembley until nearly 50 years after that first one...(of course, when the FA Cup and Challenge Cups were first played for, Wembley was a long way from being planned and built.)

How about reading the rest of my post to try putting my statement in context

Surely a wayne McDonald statue is a no brainer

Wayne or Jayne

Since 1945 the only break in wembley hosting the final was due to the stadium being rebuilt, over 65 years to me certainly warrants being the home of the challenge cup if not RL, then I suppose it's also whatever suits your argument.

Wembley was titled as the 'National Stadium for Football and Rugby League' (or words to that effect.

It is part ours and our heritage does indeed belong there - and so should.

It is only since the SL started that the cup final, at Wembley, was seen as the pinnacle of our sport.

I cannot believe anyone would not see that it would be right to be commemorated by a venture such as this and my only gripe is the mess the RL are making of the selection process.

Don Fox for me - bitter-sweet memories and THE iconic Wembley moment for RL!

I take your point and will re-iterate my belief that Wembley is not the home of RL in this country and will concede to agree that it can be seen as the home of the CC, however to have 1 competition game of RL played a year (admittedly there were a couple of internationals played there last year) hardly makes it HOME






Don't think so, Wembley is "England's national stadium". It is the home venue of the England national football team, it is owned by English football's governing body, The Football Association, through their subsidiary company "Wembley National Stadium Ltd". There is no reference in WNSL press releases to it being ‘National Stadium for Football and Rugby League’ (or words to that effect)


BTW there have been as many RU games played at the "New" Wembley since re-opening than there has been RL, so should there be a statue of JPR Williams there as well



As I said in my previous post, I do not see the relevance of a RL tribute statue there

don and neil together for me. arms around each others shoulders or something like that.

I may not have the relevant press details, and I'm not kidding myself that Wambley was built for us, but it most definetely WAS built for Football and RL and was clearly used at the time to justify the expense.

I say we claim what we can of it. Wembley is still special to the game, although soemthing has been lost in the magic of it.

Why would the FA build a stadium to house RL

(for the record the new stadium was built in conjunction with the FA in order to launch a bid for the 2018 world cup finals)
You are way off track, as I said there has been as many RU games in the new Wembley as there has been RL games, which pales in to insignificance the amount of Football games played there and is also on a par with the amount American football games, Wembley (the new one) has very little, if not no affiliation with RL and to want an RL great epitomised there is at best hypocritical and at worst totally inappropriate

with the objective of ?



wembley is not sport englands stadium it belongs to WNSL who are the FA's subsidiary company "Wembley National Stadium Ltd". they used funding from "Sport Englad" in part but the stadium is not Sport Englands it is the FA's and in case you didn't know the F in FA stands for Football not Rugby League Football



Sport England did not build Wembley, nor did they make a case for the 2018 world cup finals to be held in England, that was 100% down to the FA along with the majority of the fund raising required to build the new wembley

Twist it how you like - we are entitled to use the stadium and entitled to the heritage that goes with it. Rather that than a cruddy old stadium in Leeds of which one stand is just shy of being condemned.

Wembley is part and parcel of the history of RL and should be recognised as such.

Shouldn't the statue be outside Odsal, what with it's recently procaimed status as an 'iconic' rugby league ground?

Sounds like the RFL are engaging in the type of consultation flim-flam normally reserved for local authorities; keep consulting until you get the result you want.