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    Default The RFL's Dodgy Balls

    Supplier apologises over Ladbrokes Challenge Cup draw issue

    21st of April 2015

    Component flaw caused number to detach from draw ball...


    #LadbrokesChalCup



    http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article...okes-challenge




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    I love it.

    Balls with numbers on.

    "highly engineered....several components..."
    "tried and tested before delivery...."
    "reviewed the assembly process...."

    Again, balls with numbers on them. Not a Hadron Collider.

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    To be fair, I thought the RFL had no balls at all, even dodgy balls are an improvement on none.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MancSaint View Post
    I love it.

    Balls with numbers on.

    "highly engineered....several components..."
    "tried and tested before delivery...."
    "reviewed the assembly process...."

    Again, balls with numbers on them. Not a Hadron Collider.
    Can you picture them all testing the balls by taking it in turns to reach into a pot and pull one out and see if its number has fallen off?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint_Claire View Post
    Can you picture them all testing the balls by taking it in turns to reach into a pot and pull one out and see if its number has fallen off?
    I was thinking the same!

    I'd love to know what the 'several components' are that make up these highly advanced cutting edge items.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint_Claire View Post
    To be fair, I thought the RFL had no balls at all, even dodgy balls are an improvement on none.
    Love it! :-)
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    What an absolute joke. Doesn't help our sport at all. Why don't they move into the modern age and write on bits of paper and fold them up?


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    'there was an unforeseen natural flaw in one of the balls'

    How did they get hold of my medical records?
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    It wasn't just the balls that were all wrong.

    Tulsen tollet tripping over his words didn't help.

    The clear bowl looked like Edwards was looking at what he was picking as he wasn't mixing them up.

    And finally putting the plastic stand for the balls out of the bowl between the drawer and the bowl meant short arse Edwards could barely reach the bottom of it.

    Was a farce

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint_Claire View Post
    Can you picture them all testing the balls by taking it in turns to reach into a pot and pull one out and see if its number has fallen off?
    They didn't test them. It's a bit like Microsoft. you'll just get a little pop up asking if you want to send a report!

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    Clearly these balls malfunction when warmed up pre-draw

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    They weren't that dodgy - I mean, Leeds still got drawn at home

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    Quote Originally Posted by RedVee Admin View Post
    Supplier apologises over Ladbrokes Challenge Cup draw issue

    21st of April 2015

    Component flaw caused number to detach from draw ball...


    #LadbrokesChalCup



    http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article...okes-challenge


    they must be faulty york at home? surely leeds or wigan away !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoggy View Post
    It wasn't just the balls that were all wrong.

    Tulsen tollet tripping over his words didn't help.

    The clear bowl looked like Edwards was looking at what he was picking as he wasn't mixing them up.
    Was a farce
    Was it a Tollet bowl? 😁
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