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Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

This sounds viable and not completely absurd at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jan/26/salford-red-devils-marwan-koukash-english-team-nrl

quote:

Salford owner Marwan Koukash wants �British Bulldogs� to play in NRL

The Salford Red Devils� owner, Marwan Koukash, said a bold plan to base an English team in the NRL is financially viable.

Koukash wants the �British Bulldogs� to compete in an expanded NRL from 2018, playing home games around England and at a halfway house in Dubai.

Koukash, who has put between �3m and �4m of his own money into Salford since saving them from financial ruin two years ago, is prepared to bankroll the plan and has sponsors already lined up.

Koukash tried to buy an Australian club in 2014 but has made little progress and said: �This is a better way of me getting into the NRL. It boils down to whether the NRL want to expand but, if they do, I can�t see why an English team cannot participate.

�The distances involved would be greater but the world is a much smaller place nowadays. It would work, it is financially viable. I have got a major airline willing to back it and I have a hotel group also willing to provide sponsorship � and we haven�t started to market it yet. It is three years in the planning.�

Koukash says one of the motivations behind his plan is to counter the threat from rugby union following Sam Burgess�s code switch to Bath.

�People are worried about losing players to the NRL but the biggest danger to rugby league in this country is rugby union,� he said. �The rugby union are aggressively marketing their product in our heartland, so why can�t we take our game to their place?

�We would have the best rugby league players in the world playing in Gloucester, London and Manchester and I would also like to play one of the games in Dubai. I have already held initial talks about that.�

Koukash, who said the British Bulldogs concept would not have an impact on his involvement with Salford, has run the idea past the NRL, who are toying with the idea of increasing their number of clubs from 16 when their television deal expires at the end of 2017.

Additional teams in New Zealand and Queensland are among the likely bidders for a place in the NRL, alongside Perth and the Central Coast.

Koukash, who said the English team would operate under the NRL salary cap, is set to unveil further ambitious plans for the game when he launches Salford�s 2015 Super League season at the AJ Bell Stadium on Thursday.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2015 02:55

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 14:08

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

BCR posted:

Where are you getting that from Mills?

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/23/elite-players-mired-in-queensland-drugs-scandal-linked-by-sole-accused-dealer

Key quotes are:

quote:

The CCC has publicly said the charges against Hunt and the Titans players related to alleged supply of cocaine �for personal use or to on-supply cocaine to friends and colleagues� between June and December last year.

...

Investigators will allege the amounts sought by them typically were in the realm of one ounce.

If that's true then yeah it's just personal/party use and not dealing.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 07:18

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Can't link because I'm on my phone, but the guardian has an exclusive about the initial supply charges against karmichael hunt and it reveals the superstar footballer he allegedly supplied to: he supplied drugs to karmichael hunt

# ¿ Mar 5, 2015 23:48

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Someone please make a gif of the dick grab at 65:00 in the manly Newcastle game tia

# ¿ May 10, 2015 06:39

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Sure to be a suspension for attacking the head of an opponent imo

# ¿ May 10, 2015 06:45

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Found it! https://vine.co/v/em61wA1HKrT

# ¿ May 10, 2015 06:57

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Byolante posted:

I honestly don't know how you could watch that game and come to any conclusion other than the refs were told to make nsw win. Blues had a knock on given as a try, a forward pass given as a try, a try from a set of six given for nothing called a knock on and on the other side you had the inglis try not given. In no loving world can you give the morris try in the first half then disallow the inglis try in the second. Its a loving disgrace to borrow from drogba

Are you always such a whiny loser?

# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 13:22

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Game owns so far. Gonna end in a 70-all draw at this rate

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 09:42

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 11:21

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Come on Thurston!

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 11:22

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Noooooooooo

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 11:25

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Yesssssss

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 11:30

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

What a loving game!

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 11:31

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

It's amazing that you can gently caress up something as simple as "pay people to work for you" but tigers lol.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2015 01:12

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

16 years, with a few exceptions where they hosed up loving up and accidentally did well. They've regressed back to terry lamb era idiocy right now.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2015 01:25

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 14:08

Contra Duck: Nov 4, 2004; #1 DAD

Nrl 2016 - 5 0 years since our last dog loving incident!

# ¿ Jan 27, 2016 12:30

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