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Or Rory Burns’ one against Starc

The game has enough serious problems to sort without creating another issue that won’t work and will only cause yet more issues

Probably to change it to 10

At a guess either Cas or Swinton

Clearly he hasn’t prepped for the interview. That’s a problem you see when you use volunteers on expenses only

It makes you wish for the days when he wouldn’t give interviews or answer questions because he was only “interim” and didn’t know which hat to wear

Your fault for underestimating me

Did he just sit there going “no comment” throughout the event?

So it came from a burner phone?

I said the NW may be an exception. Currently. Historically it hasn’t always been the case

You said that the new structure meant that teams would only travel about half an hour. You then said the NE teams could play in the Cumbria division which isn’t 30 minutes travelling

They won’t get regular fixtures against decent teams. That’s why they left. The NW may be an exception at the moment but that hasn’t always been the case. Anyway the option is already available to those clubs who want to stay local as they can leave the NCL. No one is keeping them against their will

No they don’t and the travel is way more than the half hour you mentioned in another post. @groundhopper comments about how & when the plan was drawn up seem accurate

I think your opening paragraph is being quite nice about the process. If the clubs genuinely want it and the 34/12 split would indicate that isn’t the case currently, then why look to rush it in? The game has enough problems without creating another one which isn’t needed but that’s typical of the current RFL leadership. They are useless in absolutely every respect.

The reason a large number of those Division 2 and 3 teams left the Regional leagues was due to a lack of regular fixtures against decent teams and to join a league that had and continues to have better disciplinary standards. As I have previously said if clubs don’t like the NCL then they are free to leave & rejoin the regional leagues. That’s their choice but why destroy what has worked very very well over the last 39 years. And remember the grass isn’t always greener