gingerjon

I’ll just assume, based on their track record, that they did it on vibes and didn’t read nor follow anything else. After all, doing that is their publicly stated reason for not knowing what IMG was all about. No one else is going to want to lead English RL now. I’d be stunned if many really want to be involved with it.

151 pages isn't quick.

If Leigh Leopards were a volleyball club you'd be training liberos.

Because we love it. Whereas you only tolerate it when everything goes the way you want it to. Thus, most others on this thread are far truer fans of the game than you will ever be, or ever were.

Man who threatens to leave rugby league every season if some minor rule change goes ahead says what?

You're quite happy to cast aspersions on everyone outside the precious heartlands. And yet it is the heartlanders, for all their hard work, who have failed hardest and most frequently. Get a thicker skin if you're going to hurl insults at everyone who doesn't fit the narrow, narrow, narrow vision of what you think rugby league should be.

They own a rugby league club. Do you have a rugby league club?? *insert picture of Milhouse's dad here*

They will, because this is the mentality now, use that as validation. Back bedroom critics etc. The sport's new leaders actively despise the vast majority of their actual current fans.

It's useful for us that the RU pathway is so bound up with private schools and county associations.

Historically, the sport has never really produced enough players in its heartlands to support the professional game.

You've had the last fifteen years and all of the years from 1895 to 1995. And in the intervening years you had the majority of focus. If the game's declined in the heartlands, it's because of a complete and total failure of the people there in spite of having the most favourable set up for rugby league in the country.

Less then one full season of delivery.

Hard to see how the game is in such a mess when you’ve got such deep thinkers as Degsy here acting Billy Big Balls at midday on a weekday.

Leigh would be one where I think they’ve done an excellent job expanding the audience within the town.

I don't know if that's true at every club but it certainly feels true for a lot of rugby league right now in a way that it doesn't for other sports. We don't seem to be expanding the audience or even really seeking new ones.