Talk:The Ashes (rugby league)

Whoever did the table on this made a right mess of it. As such i am removing it entirely.

If it's a mess, fix it, but don't delete it. Thanks, NawlinWiki 13:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

It's not my job to fix it, i don't have any reference to the full results. However I know for a fact that it is wrong and therefore it must be removed. Great Britain have not beaten Australia since the early 70s so all the ones after that that have GB winning are wrong. Other results have Australia playing Australia. If you think wrong information is superior to no information thats up to you. I am removing it again.

Harry Sunderland Medal
In Bradley Clyde's article, I read this: In the 1992 Ashes Series against Great Britain, Clyde was awarded with the Harry Sunderland Medal for the Player of the Series. Is this awarded in every ashes series? If so, might be worth a mention. I searched for Harry Sunderland but couldn't find anything about him. Seems like encyclopedic stuff that should be in this article.--Jeff79 07:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Nevermind. Done.--Jeff79 22:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

63 Ashes
I think that anonymous useer who changed the 1963 result to 2Aust v 1 GB was right. The series went: Australia 1st Test London 28-2; Australia 2nd TestSwinton (the "massacre") 50-12; Great Britain 3rd Test Leeds 16-5. - Sticks66 12:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think he also deleted a bunch of games too though. I dunno. I have no records to go by. As long as the totals at the bottom are verfied and match up.--Jeff79 (talk) 12:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/ Here are some on-line past records you can access -  Sticks  66  12:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Which "concept"?
What does this sentence mean?
 * Several sports and events adopted cricket's Ashes "concept"

It is followed by
 * ... was an "accepted principle" that a series had to have at least three matches ...

Is this the "concept", that there are 3 matches??

And could somebody please explain (in the article, not here) where the name comes from? The article says
 * The Australians suggested that the series should be called "The Ashes"

but does not explain why the Australians suggested this name.

--Austrian (talk) 00:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Merger Propsal - The Ashes (rugby league; 2023–)
Support - Do we really need two seperate pages talking about fundamentally the same competition. When the Ashes was due to revivied in 2020 before Covid hit no new page was created, I don't see any reason to change it now.

The only real change is that England, rather than Great Britain as a whole will contest the competition. I think this change can be covered on this page, rather than needing a new page with a title format I have never seen before on this site.

Furthermore, rugby league pages are not updated regularly at all on this website, so spreading the information across multiple pages is meaning its unlikely to be found at all amd its yet another page that is unlikely to be updated regularly.

Very happy to hear opposing views --Mollsmolyneux (talk) 11:08, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

-- Just to add the Ryder Cup was intially contested between Great Britain and the US, then Great Britain & Ireland and the US, and then Europe and the US. This is a perfectly good model for this page. --Mollsmolyneux (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. No need for a separate article. J Mo 101 (talk) 15:38, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Neutral I'm not opposed to merge but I do not see harm in having a seperate article either.


 * With the tournament having been dead for 20+ years and is now occuring with a different side I would be opposed to statistical unification and unification of results table. Especially now a women's series is also present.


 * One further point, the argument that we should merge because Wikipedians are terrible at updating rugby league pages is a little rediculas. Any merging argument should be based of if they are separately notable, and if presentations of results and statistics of the new tournament would ruin the establishment formated of the article for the old tournament, and wouldn't require a split later on. Mn1548 (talk) 13:53, 3 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Support The Ashes (rugby league) can cover the concept of Aus v GB, and the newer version of Aus v Eng in men's and women's rugby league. If there's a fork needed in future, then fine. Storm machine (talk) 06:10, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Merged pages following support. Mn1548 (talk) 20:49, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

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