Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:05 pm  

RoyceSimmons Twitter (fake or not this made me LOL)

Have been making perry run while eating. Its reduced his gravy intake dramatically #roycetastic

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:07 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

It's a hell of a lot less tiresome than having to sit through 27 hollow, meaningless friendlies every season now...

If you hate rugby league so much then why not go and watch your dull, boring, girls blouse game of soccer and leave us in peace to discuss rugby league, the best team sport humankind ever invented?

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:08 pm  

Rommel wrote:

RoyceSimmons Twitter (fake or not this made me LOL)

Have been making perry run while eating. Its reduced his gravy intake dramatically #roycetastic

Whoever is doing that comes out with some genius lines at times.

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:18 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

Anyway, I'm off to Stadium:MK to renew my season ticket there tomorrow and then off up to the smoke on Tuesday to see them play yet another meaningful, important, tense, exciting league game, the result of which will have a strong bearing on the outcome of their season. I mourn bitterly for the long lost days when I could regularly do the same at Saints games and never in a million years ever considered going to the inferior spectacle of football instead. Sadly I just can't self-delude to the same extent that you, Eddie and Stevo can... At least they get paid for doing it though...

I get excited for friendlies. Maybe you're just not a very good supporter anymore.

Goodbye then, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:30 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

It's true, games against Salford were a cacophony of noise before the play-offs were introduced, absolute pandemonium at KR when Salford came to town.

That's how I remember it.

Oohhhh.... The pithy irony... It burns, it burns.....

SaintsFan wrote:

If you hate rugby league so much then why not go and watch your dull, boring, girls blouse game of soccer and leave us in peace to discuss rugby league, the best team sport humankind ever invented?

Good to see that the knee-jerk reactionaries have some presence on these boards and aren't all just confined to RedVee. It's nice to have a balance...

Who says I hate Rugby League? Don't be so patently bloody ridiculous. I love Rugby League more than any other sport. Even given the tedious 5 barge/kick/repeat debacle we have most of the time these days. I love Saints 1000 times more than I ever could any other team in any other sport. Come the playoffs and Challenge Cup I'll be jumping up and down, singing and shouting abuse at officials in a way that I'll never be able to generate the degree of passion required to at Diamonds or MK or wherever else. I've happily sat on delayed trains for 6 hours to get to Saints games in the past. I've done 300 mile journeys through 6 inch deep snow to get to games and never regretted it. I've waded half-way across the country through horizontal wind and rain to see 15 minutes of a cancelled game and been happy to have done so. How dare anyone ever question my passion and fan credentials frankly... But those games all mattered and were worth the effort to be a part of. SL games now don't and aren't. I can't on any level justify 5 hour round-trips through Friday afternoon/evening rush-hour traffic to watch some soulless dead rubber against the likes of Salford (or anyone else, frankly), new stadium or otherwise. I will however still fight through hell and high water to be there just like in days of old come the games that still do matter. Sadly there are so precious few of them these days...

Again, whatever... If you good folks want to delude yourselves that being near the top of the league right now is important in setting us up for the rest of the season then you go right on ahead and be excited about it - I'm not stopping you, honestly. Just don't shout abuse my way in such a distastefully "Other Saints Board"-like fashion for the heresy of daring to reveal and challenge the RL's New Clothes and we'll all be happy.

Just don't come crying to me the next time someone from 5th or 6th becomes "Champions" and makes us look a laughing stock again. Or when Sky's next brilliant idea has SL teams all playing in giant foam rubber boots and clown costumes for added "entertainment" value...

BackrowSaint wrote:

I get excited for friendlies. Maybe you're just not a very good supporter anymore.

Goodbye then, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

See above. Try RedVee - you'd love it there, really...

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:01 pm  

I really don't get it Northampton, the playoffs have been with us for some years now. I'm not a fan of the playoffs but it makes a game no less meaning full.

A league system has it's flaws in that once half the season is gone those further down than 4th cannot make top spot and so alot of the meaning in their games also goes. Lets face it no team has 5th spot as their glory target.

Not even MK dons. I'm sure it's more a means to an end for MK dons, ie for them to get into the playoffs, but then that would make the rest of the season meaningless wouldn't it???????

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:06 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I really don't get it Northampton, the playoffs have been with us for some years now. I'm not a fan of the playoffs but it makes a game no less meaning full.

A league system has it's flaws in that once half the season is gone those further down than 4th cannot make top spot and so alot of the meaning in their games also goes. Lets face it no team has 6th spot as their glory target.

Exactly. Complete and utter myth that the competition was packed with meaningful games under first past the post.

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:14 pm  

These posts are way way to long! You need a a full day to read them.

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:18 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I really don't get it Northampton, the playoffs have been with us for some years now. I'm not a fan of the playoffs but it makes a game no less meaning full.

A league system has it's flaws in that once half the season is gone those further down than 4th cannot make top spot and so alot of the meaning in their games also goes. Lets face it no team has 6th spot as their glory target.

Oh, I'm bored of debating the same points now frankly... In precis: Top 5 system rewarded top teams significantly, made league games worthwhile... Top 8 does neither.... Only 3 or 4 mediocre mid-table teams pushing for 8th have anything to play for for 27 games anymore, completely arse-about from what should by any form of reasonable logic be the case... Yadda, yadda, yadda etc.

And if you think it's a good idea to completely wipe out and ignore all achievements made by all teams in the competition over the previous 85% of the season up to that point to then artificially bring all the mediocre teams back to the party to keep them and their fans interested and forking out for their Sky subscriptions, then I just can't debate with you anyway as my mind will just not stretch to seeing any kind of debatable sense in that kind of logic, sorry.

Anyway as I say - wait until the next time (it won't be long I promise you) we have laughing stock "champions" lucking out on the timing of their fitness/form and stealing it all at O/T and then come back to me with whether you think it's still a good idea, eh?

Re: Perry : Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:20 pm  

St pete wrote:

These posts are way way to long! You need a a full day to read them.

Sorry - my bad...

Me no like playoffs - make league boring, innit?

That better for you?