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Rothman2 
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Just wanted to congratulate Pete Seabourne and his Leeds Tykes team on winning National 2 North this season and look forward to renewing rivalries again next season. 👏👏👏👏👏🍾🍷🍺
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backrowb
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Their 2nds and 3rds have had a poor season, as have their colts juniors and minis. As for the ladies teams....
The Worcester Warriors of the North but with no ground. Possibly the most pointless club in Rugby. Walked away from millions in debt, and yet didn't have to start again at the bottom, and as you can tell still so much bad feeling for them.
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What are you saying?... if you are not careful you'll get your wrists slapped.
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Yawn 🥱🥱🥱
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Well done all at Leeds Tykes, I was certainly impressed with them when I visited The Sycamores a few weeks ago for the Lymm game.
Good luck in Nat 1 👍🏻
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Leeds get promotion from Nat2N and it gets mentioned on the Yorkshire Post Sports’ Twitter page but Donny beating the 2nd placed team in the Championship didn’t happen in their world. It doesn’t take me long when reading the Leeds love-in in recent days from a lot of the local regional press to remember why it was always extremely satisfying to stick one on them when they were in the Championship - which we did a number of times.
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It's mainly due to the fact that most people from Leeds can read so it's not wasted print đź‘Ť,
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What a twerp.
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Not millions in debt but promised funding pulled But don't let facts get in way of a good old gripe |
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 I'm not sure about how literacy levels vary across Yorkshire, but I would say it's more likely the fact that Leeds Tykes have actually achieved something meaningful at the weekend by winning promotion back up to National 1. As opposed to Doncaster beating an (admittedly very good) semi-pro side in a (currently) ringfenced league without any jeopardy or consequence in terms of promotion/relegation. Just my thoughts of course but I'm not sure the animosity is justified. Well done to Leeds.
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Wow 8 posts and you are already making friends!
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With all due respect, Leeds should have walked N2N this season - anything else would have been dismal failure. They’ve won the league, but let’s see how they do in ND1. If they can do anything similar to what Rotherham have done this year then that would be a terrific feat. I take your point about Donny, but let’s remember that Leeds are still well behind us in terms of Yorkshire rugby at the moment. I think Donny beating the (then) second placed team in the Championship deserved more credit because as well as Leeds have done this season, it’s still at level 4 of the pyramid. Leeds deservedly won promotion this year, but let’s not pretend that it was some unforeseen feat, it was pretty much nailed-on that they’d go up this year in my opinion. Next year for the Tykes will be interesting to see how they adapt to the higher level.
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Well done to those taking part.
This is first decent bit of discourse we have had for some time. The members in the north have woken up and are disagreeing. About time! As for Leeds, they have some good players who have gained the Club promotion. well done. But, Leeds is not really a Club in the true sense, no 2nd's, no Vets/social team, no Women's rugby, no youth or junior rugby and, worst of all, they have no Clubhouse or facilities of their own. This leaves a team that is the product of someone's ego. When he/they lose interest, who knows.... They are not on their own. Some say that this is way to go if you want success but, it's not for me. Give me a proper rugby Club, with foundations, any day. Again, I say well done to the Leeds team but, if anything happened to Mike Bidgood the whole Club would fall apart.
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Both Sheffield and Lymm ran Leeds very close this season, but in the end squad size/results prevailed and Leeds won promotion. Next season, their costs will be higher due to distance travelling and also the fact that they will arrive with about 8 or so "sideline" coaches who are scattered around the ground during the game, all microphoned up, passing messages to and from the Head Coach. We all know that water carriers etc will pass messages to players when they enter the playing area, but blatently having extra "official" eyes surely must be unfair? Or does it show just how desperate they are to win? Or do all the so called "bigger" clubs do this, I would be interested to know.
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I often see coaches with mics behind the posts at one end which seems fair enough if they keep well away from the lines. What is really annoying is when coaches travel up and down the side line barking orders. They will often have a troop of replacement players following them. I always thought the coach had to stay in their square and the players had to stay seated unless warming up at one end ??? Of course the sir can put a stop to all that if they choose.
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To be fair the Leeds Head Coach does stay in his allotted area, its the guys dotted around actually in the crowd with the microphones on that I was referring to.
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BP Youth
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With regard to reports in the Yorkshire Post, they long ago stopped any pretence of interest in rugby union. Bill Bridge was the last person I remember earning his rugby corn on that particular journal. For some time any sport outside the Leeds boundary struggles for coverage in the YP and I suspect someone knew someone who had a mate who made tea in the printing room and was able to pass the article on.
I'm sure all the clubs in N1 love it but I enjoy travelling round the great clubs in N2N. Good luck to Leeds, I'm sure they will recruit sufficient players to be competitive.
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Frankly I wish I’d never started the thread.
Frankly fed up with politics.
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Think we are just going to be unpopular as misinformation still lingers and debt that didn't exsist and why weren't we shoved to bottom of pyramid keeps raising it's head
Fact is the club were building a team to take on promotion to the prem, were promised backing then signed players from SH with Chris Stirling at the helm who throughout had no clue and I'm sure pirates and anyone who's paths crossed him knows he was a thoroughly decent bloke who did everything he could to build a side to take on a push the following season Then rug was pulled money wasn't there players had no jobs etc noone was more gutted for them than us it was a shambles, clearly an error to build on a promise but we weren't the first and certainly won't be the last to do it, but we conformed with everyone and were allowed to carry on Following season journeymen and young UN's got battered every week lots of folk enjoyed our demise, for those of us who stayed it was very uncomfortable but stay we did, Into Nat one better at WPL than headingley not fun rattling around there WPL very welcoming great facilities and a chance to reset, Inexperienced squad but stayed up just.... following year couldn't do it and Pete seaborne was brought in to try and turn it around, his university connections helped and we built a squad to take on Nat 2 north, had a fantastic ding dong season with Roth who came out on top and have recruited well again from higher to set them up nicely in Nat one they have had a very good season, but two teams only losing 3 games between them served up a great season last term Then onto this year few new additions but still paying a lot less than some clubs we have sponsors and great facilities and city/Uni links but all signings this year mostly from lower down pyramid our facilities and location help us secure talent who come from further afield as maybe while homely club is but maybe not the facilities at Beckett etc, Tougher year results wise much closer scorelines, lots of great away trips to established clubs with great clubhouses good crowds and for the most part very knowledgeable and welcoming, some clubs ...you know who you are seemed more hell bent on beating us than concentrating on rest of season seem to dislike us more than any other club and while tough games we won all four over the 2 seasons albeit close, hopefully without a bitter neighbour to try and beat you can put in a decent effort next year and have a go yourselves? For the record I have loved Nat 2 north I have been able to travel to games and sadly won't be able to do longer trips next year but hopefully we can recruit well and equit ourselves well, We not at same level of recruitment power as Rotherham and doubt we will hit their heights of this year it may well be tough, but wish all of Nat 2 north the best of luck next year, might nip up to Otley to watch a few if we are too far away to travel, it's a great league, have banter try not to make it personal accept sometimes other clubs are on their day better than yours and go home having watched a decent game of rugby We don't have a 2nds, 3rds, women's or colts our hosts have all of those and recommend watching the women's team if You get chance very impressive, We see ourselves as a new team we are in effect 4 years old, hopefully the ground and other teams will come in time we can only hope, Apologies to those who will still be offended by our presence and I'm sure there will be many but if your gonna have a pop get some facts in first and don't sulk if we have a pop back, Good luck to all for remainder of season and into next
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