Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:06 pm  

Interesting day today with Huddersfield winning the Super League winners shield and Doncaster beating us and what is the connection between the two - failed mergers. This got me thinking who is our main rival which team do you take great pride in winning against ? I have only been supporting Sheffield for the last 3 years so for me it has to be Featherstone we have had some interesting games in the last few seasons especially last week and the highlight beating them in the Grand Final last season.What annoys me about them is that the whole population of the town is 15K yet they get attendances of 2K compared to Sheffield with a population of 500K and only attendances of 1K !!!

We have only started playing the reformed Doncaster this season, geography suggests they are our rivals but i personally dont mind them doing well, it is good for South Yorkshire rugby league. However I guess they hate us though trying to merge/take them over in 1995.

Which leads us to Huddersfield there was an interesting report on Look North showing an old clip in the late 1980's early 1990's of Huddersfield old ramshackle ground with hardly any supporters when we merged in 1999 we were the better side it sounded like we got well and truly shafted in that deal in our first season they only played 2 matches in Sheffield all the rest was in Huddersfield no wonder it only lasted one season and I guess for long standing supporters they are to blame to our demise so I guess taht Huddersfield are our real rivals although the only chance at present of playing them at the moment is in the cup

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:40 am  

I hate Huddersfield a lot more than Doncaster. Featherstone don't bother me.

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:16 am  

Featherstone expands and contracts depending on what point its supporters are making.

One minute, the team has the highest attendance/population average in the world, the next minute they have a catchment area of millions because a bloke from Rawmarsh goes to games.

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:08 am  

I'm another bloke from Rawmarsh but I follow the Eagles so do I cancel him out and the team I most like to see beaten is Halifax

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:50 pm  

Don't think we have a big rival as such. Obvious animosity towards Huddersfield but we've not played them for a lot of years. I guess geographically it's Doncaster but I wish them no ill.

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:00 pm  

There's barely a club we visit where I don't know at least one person.

Struggling to "hate" anyone. I'd rather leave that sort of stuff to soccer.

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:23 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

There's barely a club we visit where I don't know at least one person.

Struggling to "hate" anyone. I'd rather leave that sort of stuff to soccer.

You don't know Charlie .

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:53 pm  

Huddersfield is my biggest pet hate, beating fax is always nice apart from that and the heavy dual reg abusers i'm not too bothered about anyone else in a rivalry way

I like doncaster like alot do, maybe that is because there is only 2 clubs in south yorkshire? unlike the M62 and west yorkshire

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:45 am  

Halifax - mainly because of the Sam Barlow & Rob Worrincey affairs.

Like going to York not just because we usually hammer them on the rare occasions that we are in the same division but also because both my wife and myself have relatives in York so we enjoy a good crack with them in the evening.

Re: Who are our rivals ? which team do you love to beat : Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:18 am  

charlie caroli wrote:

You don't know Charlie .

Didn't say I knew everybody, Charlie. Just somebody.