| Hornets 20:42 - Sep 20 with 12656 views | soulboy |
Does anyone know whats happening at Hornets? Theres been no mention of them in the Observer for the last 3 weeks to my knowledge. Admittedly they've not had much to shout about this season, and in their last 3 games they've been hammered but at least you would expect the local paper would give them some coverage, or have they gone bust? | | | |  |
| Hornets on 20:55 - Sep 20 with 9426 views | pioneer |
season finished (well it was by may really)
relegated to the bowels of the rugby league | | | |
| Hornets on 18:15 - Sep 21 with 9030 views | Thacks_Rabbits |
Good!
How long before they stop paying rent again or go all bURY financially so we can get rid of them to mayfield where they belong! | |
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| Hornets on 07:28 - Sep 23 with 8760 views | EllDale |
There's a mention in one of the rugby league papers this morning but it's a negative one as the report says some players are taking Hornets to court/RFL tribunal.
They are players contracted for the 2020 season whose contracts Hornets are trying to terminate following relegation.
Apparently under league rules notice of this has to be given within one month of relegation. Hornets went down on August 4th and so had until September 5th to issue the necessary notifications.
This they failed to do due to "an administrative error". | | | |
| Hornets on 07:32 - Sep 23 with 8753 views | aleanddale |
Quite sad Actually.
Sporting club in the town struggling to keep its head above water I wish them all the best. | | | |
| Hornets on 18:04 - Sep 23 with 8437 views | ArthurDaley |
A short answer is no, even the few Hornets fans don't seem to know what is happening.
I go on the Hornets MB and nothing is clear on there. At the moment it doesn't appear that they have any players signed up for next season. As an old Hornets supporter things are really sad. What a good team they had in the Frank Myler and Kel Coslett era. | |
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| Hornets on 18:16 - Sep 23 with 8409 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
Sad to see, are they now a basket case like bury,Art?
Not a Rugby fan, but do not want to see the demise of another sport in my home town. | | | |
| Hornets on 19:08 - Sep 23 with 8315 views | Dalenet |
The Financial model for Div 1 next season will potentially cripple them. They won't get any decent volume of away fans and their own fan base is barely 500. For the towns sake I hope they survive, but a merger with Mayfield can't be far away can it? | | | |
| Hornets on 19:13 - Sep 23 with 8304 views | ArthurDaley |
Not quite the bURY league, YD, but a bit chaotic . Having meetings in the Flying Horse not having meetings in the Flying Horse having votes on something, arguing about the result of the vote
arguing about who should vote. Nobody really knows what is going on.
I was a long time supporter ( along with the Dale ) but haven't been for years. | |
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| Hornets on 19:36 - Sep 23 with 8258 views | Cleedale |
Sad really - didn't they get gates around the 2,000 mark when first at Spotland? Know there's always been probs. with the bills - hope we're not going to suffer from that end now. Remember that carry-on with 'their' scoreboard? Whatever happened to that?
Always remember those mud-bath Floodlit Rugby League encounters down at the Athletics Ground with bigg'ish gates way-back-then - seem to think they were televised live on the Beeb. | | | |
| Hornets on 19:54 - Sep 23 with 8215 views | Thacks_Rabbits |
I love rugby league but hornets for years have been a basket case and have ripped the football club off numerous times, if you add to that the odious people who are and have been involved in the club, using personal influence as well as profile to keep them alive.
I won’t say all I know but if someone says no it means no, if anyone wants to know the full story I will meet you in a pub in heywood next time i visit!!! | |
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| Hornets on 20:10 - Sep 23 with 8178 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
Slightly off topic but someone mentioned the Athletic Ground.....what were the attendances like for the Stock Car events?
.......and Speedway? | | | |
| Hornets on 20:21 - Sep 23 with 8152 views | regjenkins |
Pretty good back in the very early 1970's. I was more into speedway at the time. Peter colins would hi-side almost every week. Good days. | |
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| Hornets on 21:06 - Sep 23 with 8045 views | soulboy |
I went to the speedway there several times, but never got really into it, I think it was Belle Vue reserves rather than a Rochdale team? Both sports held on a Sunday afternoon but I much preferred the chaos of the stock cars, world champion Stuart Smith and his main rival another Rochdale driver, Doug Cronshaw. Happy days circa 70/71. | | | |
| Hornets on 01:18 - Sep 25 with 7680 views | downunder |
Some of the League people I know in the area have said to me that Mayfield don't want them, though I can see some sense in it. | | | |
| Hornets on 07:50 - Sep 25 with 7584 views | EllDale |
The speedway team in 1970 was the Belle Vue Colts one from 1969 rebranded and renamed. The whole operation was run by Belle Vue.
Many of the riders who wore the Hornets bib in the two seasons that they were open went onto become members of the allconquering Belle Vue team of the 1970's - world champion Peter Collins, Paul Tyrer and Alan Wilkinson for example.
Because of noise restrictions the first season's matches were staged on Sunday afternoons and most were won by hefty margins which caused attendances to drop.
They weren't so much races as processions. A lot of people my age who went were just teenagers who went to get out of the house!
There were only a couple of thousand there at best.
That prompted a move to Friday nights with no improvement so the franchise moved to Ellesmere Port for the 1972 season. | | | |
| Hornets on 13:00 - Sep 25 with 7420 views | hammerdale |
Good to see you are so supportive of the demise of another professional team. Talking of rip off I'll just mention York postponed and dumping Hornets off to Mayfield 3dsys before the Swinton game at a great financial loss to Hornets .Of course RAFC had not compensated them in any way. I just don't get anyone who is Rochdale based wanting the club to die..it's a sad state of affairs. | | | |
| Hornets on 00:08 - Sep 26 with 7277 views | Dalenet |
But they were compensated so be careful of the libel laws | | | |
| Hornets on 16:18 - Sep 27 with 7007 views | hammerdale |
What did they get | | | |
| Hornets on 17:40 - Oct 2 with 6528 views | blackdogblue |
Chris Dunohy? | |
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| Hornets on 10:06 - Oct 10 with 5940 views | Dalenet |
Not looking good. For the entire Board to resign suggests that the members are in revolt or the financial position of the club is perilous. I wonder whether this is the end for them....which would be quite sad. | | | |
| Hornets on 10:41 - Oct 10 with 5888 views | James1980 |
Yes that certainly will be sad. From a cold, business point of view how would that effect us financially? | |
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| Hornets on 11:48 - Oct 10 with 5824 views | pioneer |
yes, all started when they shifted to a members based club and members saw themselves as special and a better class than regular bills who just wannted to watch the game and sod the politics. Having pissed them off they were left with about 500 hearty souls many of whom saw themselves as the saviours of rugby league in the town.
God forbid we ever lose touch with the regular folks who just want to watch footy when it suits them, but the pricing structure at Dale is heading that way. | | | |
| Hornets on 12:03 - Oct 10 with 5800 views | AussieDale |
'The pricing structure is heading that way'. I wouldn't know living in Oz but any idea what our season ticket prices are in comparison with other clubs in both our division and the division below | | | |
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