Fair point. Imagine if it got a foothold in one of the big untapped markets in Asia that football hasn't yet? I mean, Japan has both RU and football, China has a league etc. But there are other big markets out there that football hasn't colonised yet that maybe RL could?
RL would be better off trying to get a foothold in places like, erm, Lincolnshire, before they go about colonising Asia. There is a reason it hasn't caught on.
It’s a good evening out…how old are your kids….if you haven’t been before it’s difficult to follow what’s going on. Current team owned by two local lads so worthy of support. Last weeks match was a sell out and Remembrance respectfully observed.
Yeah I went to the new ice arena next to Bellend Road last year for to see the Leeds and Hull teams. It looks like a really good sport...if you can follow what on earth is happening, which I couldn't
A well used phrase over here is... "I went to the fight last night and a hockey game broke out !" Used to love watching the T'ranna Maple Leafs, even bought myself a couple of hocky sticks but never mastered the art of skating. It surprises me that at the top pro- level there are not more serious career ending injuries. The speed they hit each other into the boards is mind-boggling. When I first started watching the game the daft buggers didn't even wear helmets ! "Crazy Canucks" is an apt description.
Thanks for that 2Rs. After all these years I've never seen that video, or saw(chuk ) him play live - as I came to Canada in '72 after his retirement - but all hockey fans I subsequently met talked a lot about him with glowing admiration. It certainly was/is a brutal sport with a lot of excitement and drama involved. Great video, thanks again. (I still use a tea-towel emblazoned with the Maple Leafs club logo on it - in fact it's hanging on my stove's door handle as we speak !). Happy times.
Right next door is Form Shop and Studio. It's a great place to buy jigsaw puzzles, they have really fun designs. I bought a quality tea tray for a family member who loves tea trays (convenient), some misanthropic socks, and a goofy-looking felt dog tree decoration for someone who is obsessed with dogs Definition of Misanthropic , having or showing a dislike of other people; unsociable. Blooming clever socks those been unsociable.They put some absolute guff in that rag.
Have to say boooo, my family are all from the west coast, my cousin despises the Leafs. I am however, a huge huge baseball fan, and love the Jays, always have done.
My cousin actually lives in Salmon Arm, so I went along to a game for the feeder team there, Salmon Arm Silverbacks. I went up in the ice half way through (my cousin put me forward) and had to race across the ice with a shopping trolley collecting stuff at 3 pick up points. I was last at the last pick up point, but went for it and won the race and a hockey stick signed by the whole team, one of them went on to the NHL.
Did you see the documentary ‘Ice Guardians’ about the enforcers years ago? Don’t know much about the sport but thought it was a cracking documentary. Some of the players in that YouTube clip featured in the documentary too I think
Did you see Gretzky playing for the Oilers...back when Edmonton were top notch? Back when teams visiting Alberta referred to it as Death Valley, playing the Oilers and Flames consecutively on the road.
Me, the missus and a mate and his missus did a road trip from Calgary via Banff, Kamloops and Whistler to Vancouver, I dunno, about 30 years ago. Beautiful trip. Somehow I seem to recall we debated making a detour for an afternoon to Salmon Arm but decided against it, probably because we had organized a ferry trip across to Vancouver Island a couple of days later. Just googled the place. Looks like a lovely spot. Logging industry based I imagine? Scared the living daylights out of us when we encountered those fully loaded monster logging trucks with trailers when they overtook us or stopped next to us at traffic lights. Must do B.C. again sometime, spectacular places to explore.
I must have missed that one too. Just googled it and found quite a few clips from the show. Certainly a number of players I recall interviewed. Dave Semenko , Bob "Mad Dog" Kkelly and Dave "The Hammer" Schultz were three notables I recall most, but each team had one or two such "minders". Bobby Hull, probably the "hardest" hockey player I ever saw (on TV) never needed protection. After Gretzky, probably Hull was the second most talented player ever, perhaps tied with Bobby Orr in retrospect.
Worth a watch The importance of enforcers providing protection for flair players like Gretzky was fascinating as there was a good case made it was actually safer then, when someone would take your head off if you messed with a flair player as it stopped cheap shots
To be fair to 'em, they say it's a football City as well in the article. Hull KR head coach Willie Peters said: "What I've loved about living in Hull and coming to Hull KR is that it's a rugby league city, and obviously we've got a football team in the city as well. People love their rugby league. For people who don't watch rugby league too much, I think they are starting to know who Mikey Lewis is now and, certainly off the back of this, people will know who he is. Opportunities that you get like this, that aren't just rugby league related, you need to be doing some special things and Mikey did that last year and he's been rewarded.
