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Ugh when did clubs decide putting the ref's audio up instead of commentary was a good idea?

Take a club out of its home town and you will get lower attendances. 4,000 for a big Lancashire team is probably as much as they could expect.

Yeah the spread of Leeds fixtures the past couple of years, away from Friday nights has been really bad.

This is the future you're asking for.

14,306 for Leeds vs Wire, a couple of thousand up on last year. So this and the last couple of crowds have been ok but I know the people at Headingley are delighted to get back to Friday night games after too many games on Saturdays this year.

This may be a difficult concept for our friends from the rainy side of the Pennines to understand but people from Wakey and Cas are not likely to have huge bias towards Leeds.

It was obvious two minutes ago that there would never be sufficient proof to overturn the grounding call. Absolute waste of time.

If the obstructed players were only in a position to be near the attacking line due to being offside at the play the ball what's the ruling?

How can Kendall not give that decision given where he was standing.

I don't think you understand the first thing about Rugby League in London.

It's a bit weird to frame it in the way you have; Brabin isn't the Mayor of Leeds, she's the Mayor of West Yorkshire.

I listen to Eddie & Stevo's podcast just because I nostalgically like the sound of their voices but, even though it's devoted to a team I don't support, WW Brian Bevan Say is the only other UK RL podcast I can listen to. Literally every other one I've tried has multiple annoying aspects, I don't know if I'm just too picky but there always seems to be some irritating presentation, instantly annoying characters/voices or general ignorance that drives me away from the others.

Brisbane/SE Queensland and London could hardly be more different in the visibility and awareness of Rugby League, it'd be foolish to think they need the same branding and marketing approach.

Does anyone know anything about there being major engineering works on the East Coast Main Line, towards the London end, on 25th October? That would have a major effect on anyone trying to get to the first test from Yorkshire.

Differentiating between pre and post-SL is useful if you want to exclude Wigan and Leeds from any "living beyond their means" discussion but the reality is that the reasons, motivations and, too often, end results are the same. Clubs make optimistic assumptions or rely on continued/an uptick in on-field performance or hope that something will just turn up. Almost all clubs in the leagues have been through this at some point so pointing fingers at Bradford's past performance in particular doesn't make sense. The question is whether they now have the financial backing to make a go of it. And we don't 100% know the answer to that.

It's just untrue though. The top tier of OT is always category 5 and they are the same price as the cheapest tickets on sale throughout the year. They don't introduce a new ticket category when they open up those seats.

It's not really a question of being annoyed on behalf of people. It's mostly disappointing that, even with Moran involved, they have reached for the 'reduce prices' lever when the prices were already cheap. We had hoped they had moved beyond that and were going to do some genuine promotion and marketing for this game. Hopefully they will try and do both. On the principle of the thing I don't really care and yes, they aren't seats which were previously available so it's not that bad. But all the fanfare about priority ticket window etc and very specific announced price ranges didn't give a hint that there would be cheaper tickets later on. Sharp practice or not, it's certainly wasn't totally transparent.

No clubs in SL make money. You can question whether Bradford's stadium is up to it or if they can assemble a decent team but financial problems years in the past are irrelevant really, as is whether they are currently loss or profit making. What matters is if they have the backers to cover losses (and I believe they have some people in place).

Is this an indication of them changing the pricing of seats in certain blocks? Or just incompetence?

Minimum standards typically talk about capacity, covered seats, pitch size. They don't - and can't really - try to measure levels of decrepitude. That's more a council safety officer sort of thing.

I'd hope the clubs have access to more robust information than a clown on the internet.

Clubs can work on calculating their own scores which I guess is what they mean.

To be fair he was specifically asked about RU in the question.

I've seen rumours of this - they have to be a joke, right?