gingerjon

How did things pan out for West Wales, Cornwall, London Skolars, Hemel, Oxford and Gloucestershire?

The ones without whom the soaraway NRL success story Vegas event would not be a success? Those fans?

Outcome to be published the same day as the review into Leigh v Wigan play off ticketing

The move from handball being an outdoor 'football with hands' style game on a full size pitch to being an indoor court game ... essentially a sport more different as modern soccer is from the sport first played prior to the association rules being codified. If that doesn't happen, you don't get 20% of the population of the Faroe Islands being in a hall in to watch this (and, apparently, most of the remaining 80% watching on TV back home) ... https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTlhWdyCL06/

It's not up to 'us' to separate them. There's a legal process that has been done in such a way as to effectively tie the RFL's hands.

There's no way to separate them here - and there was no alternative 'Featherstone Rovers 2026' club to take the place.

I believe it was the winter sportists themselves who rejected it. I'd extend the summer games by a week to give it space to breathe. Love 3x3 basketball and the rest.

Because actions should have consequences?

Except the list that followed from that sentence you quoted shows how common it is to expel clubs in other sports.

Indeed. It's unnecessary.

Aye, I'm not saying it was a good thing, or a bad thing, but byes are not an unknown thing. I'm not a fan - but I also wouldn't block (say) a 15 team division if there were a good reason to have a 15 team division out of fear of byes.

League 1 seemed to have bye weeks more years than not. Sometimes planned, sometimes because a team folded.

That's keeping rugby 7s in. 9 countries have won a medal, with Tonga, Ireland and Samoa yet to win one. Decent metric though.

I think the biggest one for cricket now is the rebel ICL proving you could make gazillions even with an unendorsed T20 league, thus forcing the creation of the IPL but also the plethora of joke gambling leagues.