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In which case, three sevens is dead in the water. But I doubt if it will come to that.

Why don't we have this ? I'm sure Keir Starmer is as good a judge of a Rugby League player as anyone.

There'll be a few of those. Ben Jones-Bishop has played for England Knights and has played for Jamaica many times.

Anthony Farrell chose Wales over England - many years ago.

I've heard they may have given Tommy the nod. But no decision made until after the composition of the division is known. Apparently.

It won't be as simple as playing the nearest 12 teams to you in the table. If it were, team 11 would be playing everybody. I'd expect there to be mostly ability based fixtures with a smattering of local derbies. If London are in, I wouldn't expect to see them in Cumberland much. But why don't we wait and see?

Well, that's a relief. There's nothing better than what's being proposed.

Yeah. Why don't they just give up Les?

Wait and see.

One man's ensuring that an expansion club stays small off the field is another man's giving an expansion club a fixture list which will help them climb the table.

You're right, Johnny. Plenty of folk on here whinging about how little the RFL does for expansion yet, when the RFL does something to protect expansion clubs from a mauling on the field, all we hear is "farce", "unfair on my club", "meaningless league table". Some folk need to stand back and take a long hard look at themselves.

I thought they'd go for that, actually, but they saw sense.

"Ambitious clubs"? You have 21 clubs and you want to have local leagues plus another one for "ambitious clubs"? There aren't enough clubs. Ultimately, that's the problem.

Love your positive attitude. Why is it a farce? Why is the league table meaningless?

Regions won't work well. There'll be Yorkshire and Rest of the World.