Actually,if you think about it,if both clubs merged,it would be all peace and harmony.









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....and who wants that?

All the anger would turn inwards and there'd be no safety valve.



It would take something huge to make a merger happen - the arrival of SL wasn't enough. If the sport had a prolonged period of successful expansion or the RFL and RFU kissed and made up, then maybe. I won't hold my breath on either.
Other than the exceptional case of Sydney RL clubs, I can't of many big(gish) clubs that have merged. Sampdoria's parent clubs weren't well known outside of Genoa. Then it is Rushden and Diamonds, and Dagenham and Redbridge.
If Hearts and Hibs or Bristol City and Rovers merged they might, respectively, challenge the Old Firm or get in the Premier League. It gets talked about occasionally, but never happens.

You should try it pal. I go to Quins now, I love it.

I still go and watch Hull FC for family reasons but Quins is a great day/weekend out so why not do it most weeks. It makes sense kid

Did the majority of this even make sense to you?

Why are a combined Bristol City and Bristol Rovers going to join the SPL? You're as mad cheese Mild Rover, as mad as cheese.

Think the major question is which 4 mods would get the bullet when the forums combine

Rovers unofficial forum members rate FC's mods very highly.

When was that poll conducted ?

How do you know that?

I wonder

Well I doubt you can access it directly - they have a very tight system AFAIK.

Really

Suprising that they contact them by PM to tell them so too

Then go on about it repeatedly.

I remember all the talk the last time about the merger and it is right, there would be a lot of current fans that just would not go but there would be a lot of fans that would go as well.

I dont think 15k - 17k is unreasonable and the gains from sponsorship, merchandising, acadamy ect would give 1 club a hell of a platform.

We have the most passionate fans in the game, just look at our away support and when its in your blood its in your blood, saying that I do not think it will happen ever.

Indeed it is, and for this reason alone you should understand that this talk of mergers is the Word of Lucifer.

You should be burned for such heresy.

We obviously don't deserve better

Mergers don't even exist in this country anyway. I can't think of a single one in recent times that has been anything other than just a takeover of one club by another.

When you talk about it being 'in your blood' the difference I think between us and other big sporting nations like australia and the usa is that, whilst we love the sports themselves, it's the 'clubs' that are in our blood.

Theres too much tradition, history, family ties etc with sporting clubs in this country to just 'merge' for convenience and hope that the fans will just get on with it. Sports are all about competition and rivalry anyway - what's the point of eradicating one of the best in the world by merging two massive names in our game just so the RFL can stick another london club in SL that no one cares about?

Obviously not, both teams are beyond pathetic given the playing staff we have. Now I know we are missing Dobbo, Newton and Vella but thats life in RL terms and we still should be trying

for every step forward theres 3 steps back so far his year

weve lost 3 games we should have won already because of a lack of effort, the next 5 games are MASSIVE now, if we dont come out well then the plays could be gone already IMO

as for Hull, they need to bite the bullet sooner rather than later and splash the cash on a big name coach, they have a good squad already, just need someone to point them in the right direction IMO

yes very quite in both camps today, not even much trolling, oh well might put some matches on of the 80s when we where both worth watching

, whoops musnt but 1980 on

Neither team are in a particularly bad player availability situation. FC are trying, I won't fault our effort this season, we're not falling off tackles for example, we're just rubbish.

I'm very surprised Rovers have only won one of your last 4 games, but if you get a couple of wins from the next few, I can see you getting your main players back and mounting a decent play-off challenge. At FC we have only Ogre as a key player out and failed dismally against a ragbag of a Wakefield side last night at home. Neither of us should be very optimistic at the moment. Attendances are certainly on the slide at FC, which is very concerning.

I've decided to buy Morgan and Agar a lighter, because they keep losing their matches

The problem is that there is not enough quality players coming through both teams, overrated overpaid oversears players are killing hull and rovers. I,ve posted on fc website that were going to end up as feeder clubs for the so called big four and there will be nothing we can do about it.I personally think that neither team will compete for honours in sl because of the talent drain of having to teams in sl.We were a better team when you were in the northern ford because we didn't have to compete with you for younger talented players in our city,this is no way a dig but the raelity is there for all to see.