gingerjon

They will know that RL is unlikely to move off Sky unless they offer enough to overcome the significant advantages sports on Sky have.

I mentioned before that of the non soccer PSG entities created around the same time, the only one still going is handball. Turns out I was slightly wrong. They, like the rest, were either disassociated or closed (or both) - and they came back to being PSG only when the football club was bought by Qatar. Qatar were, at the time (and still are to an extent) using handball as their secondary sportswash programme. So Lindsay could have used PSG perfectly - it still wouldn’t have existed past 1999.

Yes. Often we have two games on SS+ at the same time. One of these will be on the channel, one on streaming.

It's certainly cleaner than it was. And all the better for it. I want to watch rugby. We are a long way from a game with 'almost zero deliberate foul play' though. I just dispute that it's a downgrade from playing whilst injured and manning up about it to not doing that.

We disagree fundamentally on this. Foul play is now completely tolerated in our game - we don't sin bin or send off, and we hardly punish after the fact. The downgrade is that the only way any punishment for being a rule breaking thug occurs is thanks to players working the ref/video ref like this. I don't want people not showing they're injured. I want people to stop injuring opponents.

All you need to do is copy darts and UFC, and Deportivo Olimpia will be no more. Anyway, back to Oldham (population 242,000).

Is it? What's that based on?

I need to find that video of Jonathan Frakes saying “it never happened”

You’d think someone who understandably struggled to get Latin America to play rugby might understand what an endemic football culture looks like, TBH.

You really do like creating them and us narratives, eh?

Maybe they asked AI what the owners would say

Mate …

That can’t be right, we’ve had people on here giving us a blow by blow account of what’s been offered, counter offered, hardball etc

Slightly under the average from last year but very much in line with the past year or two I believe.

From memory, it was one of the sells to them working with the RFL on this.