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Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: a Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season Pdf FREE RUGBY LEAGUE YEARBOOK 2016-2017: A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE 2016 RUGBY LEAGUE SEASON PDF Tim Butcher | 300 pages | 14 Nov 2016 | League Publications Ltd | 9781901347333 | English | Brighouse, United Kingdom Toulouse Olympique - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Daniel Spencer. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published November 29th by League Publications Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Rugby League Yearbook -please sign up. 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The Championship featured 12 teams, which all played one another twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The season also featured the " Summer Bash Weekend " for a second time. This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates Super League's Magic Weekend concept for the Championship sides. After these 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve were split into three divisions of eight, the "Super 8's". Following the split into the Super 8's, the top four teams in the Championship joined the bottom four teams of the Super League in the qualifiers. This group saw each team play each other once each, totalling seven extra games, with points reset to zero for the qualifiers. After seven extra rounds, the top three teams earned a place in the Super League competition forthus either retaining or earning a place in the top competition. The teams finishing 4th and 5th in the qualifiers played off in an extra fixture, hosted by the fourth-place side, for the final place in the Super League competition. The loser of this fixture, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th, and 8th in the qualifiers, were either relegated to or remained in the Championship for the season. Teams finishing after 23 rounds between 5th and 12th in the Championship played in the Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season of the three "Super 8" groups, "The Championship Shield". This saw each team playing each other once more, but with points from the original season retained. Following the additional seven rounds a four- team play-off took place pitting 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners playing each other in the final to win the new "Championship Shield". The two teams finishing at the bottom of this group of eight were relegated to the Kingstone Press League One, being replaced by two promoted teams from the League 1 competition. Relegation to League 1 was in place for the season, with the two bottom teams from "The Championship Shield" group after the split suffering the drop, with promotion to the Super League being available to teams finishing in the top four after 23 rounds. All of the teams in the Championship also competed in the Challenge Cupwhere they entered in the third round. This year's competition featured 12 teams. The teams consisted of ten of the 12 teams fromthe champion of the Championship 1 season, Oldhamand the champion of the Championship 1 playoffs, Swinton Lions. Doncaster and Hunslet Hawkswho finished in the bottom two inwere relegated to League Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season for From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Featherstone Rovers. George Illawarra Dragons Wests Tigers. RFL Championship. Widnes Vikings York City Knights. Championship Cup. Fairplay Index. Rugby league in Great Britain and Ireland. Hidden categories: Articles lacking sources from November All articles Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season sources. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Leigh Centurions. Workington Town Whitehaven. Batley Bulldogs. Fox's Biscuits Stadium. BatleyWest Yorkshire. Bradford Bulls. BradfordWest Yorkshire. Dewsbury Rams. HalifaxWest Yorkshire. LeighGreater Manchester. London Broncos. Trailfinders Sports Ground. EalingLondon. StalybridgeGreater Manchester. Sheffield Eagles. Swinton Lions. Sale, Greater Manchester. Recreation Ground. WhitehavenCumbria. Workington Town. Leigh Centurions C. London Broncos Q. Batley Bulldogs Q. Featherstone Rovers Q. Bradford Bulls F. Championship Shield. Halifax F. Sheffield Eagles F. Dewsbury Rams F. Swinton Lions F. Oldham R. Workington Town F. Whitehaven F. rugby league yearbook products for sale | eBay T hirty years ago this week, 10 leading clubs had a secret meeting at Headingley to plot a breakaway from the RFL. They wanted to create a self- contained elite league where they had more influence, more control and, of course, a far greater share of TV and sponsorship revenues. The RFL were forced into a compromise, appeasing the rebels by cutting the First Division to 14 clubs, halving the levy top-flight clubs contributed to central funds and increasing their share of sponsorship deals. And I thought Uncle Rupert started all this in A few weeks later, the championship title — the last under the sponsorship of Blackburn brewery Matthew Brown and their Slalom Lager brand - was won by Halifax thanks to a all draw with Featherstone. The result relegated Rovers. It is hard to imagine such a shambolic situation now. The dirty dozen who wanted to breakaway got what they wanted eventually, each finding out what a super league tastes like. Despite being in the first division when Super League was gestating, Featherstone were unwanted and remain on the outside, looking in. They were unfortunate or naive enough to win the second tier four years in a row when there was no promotion to Super League attached, yet fell away last year when a route up via the Middle Eight play-offs beckoned. They finished last season on a minor high, thrashing London Broncos to win the ultimate trinketthe Championship Shield. They did it again on Saturday night, dumping London out of the Challenge Cup at the first hurdle, thanks to an extraordinary second-half display at a near-deserted Trailfinders Sports Club. In a shocking pink and navy kitwhich looked rather fetching collectively but ludicrous close up on an individual, they trailed at half-time to the Championship leaders. But, despite being down to just two interchange options, ran in try after try down the slope as the hapless Broncos fell apart. Expect far more when they return to West Ealing in the league on Easter Monday. Under experienced top-flight coach Jon Sharp, Fev are a team with no star names, other than former England prop Darrell Griffin, who can still punch holes in defences at this level at the age of There may be Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season expectations on Post Office Road this year but they have quietly moved to within Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season point of headline- grabbing fellow part-timers Batley — who they face in the Challenge Cup fifth round — and would be top of the Championship if they won their game in hand. Seeing Widnes on top of Super League should be inspiration enough for Fev. If I had been spending my annual week in South Rugby League Yearbook 2016-2017: A Comprehensive Account of the 2016 Rugby League Season last week rather than in May, I would have been pleasantly surprised to stumble across Scotland head coach Steve McCormack. I hope he had time for a stroll on the beach and an ice cream. McCormack was hosted by Devon Sharks, who also have Dewsbury Rams player Antony Tonks putting on some coaching days for under-eights later this year. Among those running the Sharks, who have been going 10 years now, are Barry Whittle and his dad, Malcolm, one of the few late-middle-aged men in the south who can reminisce about watching Liverpool City RLFC as a kid. For once, this really is about foreign quotas — or rather the lack of them. That is way more than the norm for Super League this season and feels rather a lot to me. Most clubs are fielding five or six imports in their seventeens. Catalans are the least French they have been for years, featuring just seven players born in France in the past two rounds.
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