Liverpool Rover

In this country I feel it gets overlooked with the “sport is all about results on the field”.

I think that is why fandom forms a big part of it.

The number 6 shirt was retired at Hull KR after Roger Millwards passing.

I've seen the Namo tackle several times and still can't see what he did wrong. He went for the hip area, didn't fall on Isas legs and didn't seem to me to trap Isas foot under him. It's something that you see every game every week.

If you don't have 5 6 and 7 It is highly unlikely you will have 1 2 3 and 4 which means you won't have 8. This is why how a club performs off field is just as important as what happens on it, maybe even more so.

For all the territory Leigh had in the first half Rovers defence mainly stood firm but once Rovers got into the game in the second half they were the better team. Even without the players Leigh were missing I thought it was still a strong enough team that they had out.

King has mainly been starting on the bench this year.

Rovers and Leigh have backers that were willing to put big money into their clubs, not many other non SL clubs have those kinds of investors. It wasn’t licensing that caused Bradford and Crusaders to demise, it was coincidental that it happened during licensing.

This will be the closest of the QFs but Saints at home against a weakened team will be tough to beat so Saints will get a close win.

Caught up with the game tonight. The quality dipped in the second half but it was still an entertaining game with both teams having to work hard to get a win. I thought Catalans would miss Abdulls kicking in a tight game like this but it wasn’t the case.

This country is obsessed with football. The EFL Championship is probably one of the best attended leagues in Europe and with the amount of money in the game there are a lot of EFL clubs who can be promoted to the Premier League and do well, so maybe in football P&R isn’t broken. However in both codes of rugby it is different. The RFL and RFU championship equivalent league in football would be well down their pyramid. Before starting this post I had a look at some of the RFU championship grounds and a lot of them are woeful for what is meant to be their second tier and will no way support a fully pro premiership team. Rugby League has a wide disparity of clubs condensed in to three levels that in football would be spread through ten so while League 1 clubs are only two tiers below Super League in reality they are miles away. P&R works in football as it has a strong pyramid to support it, RLs pyramid is too weak.

I won't be watching any live as I will be at work so I will be watching the Hull derby when I get back home.

The Sydney suburban clubs playing a full suburban grounds look a lot better than playing in front of 10-15k at ANZ Stadium.

The defence has been good but against a team with Warringtons firepower the attack is definitely going to need an improvement but I think it will be a very narrow home win.

The only club I could find that offered any kind of official club trip to Perpignan was Leeds. It's baffling to me that no other club seems to offer fan or corporate club trips to try and bring in some money to reduce the costs of teams travelling over, but then realised that it probably requires too much forward thinking for English Rugby League clubs.