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Pigeon Lofter

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  1. Probably add another 10,000, perhaps more, to the gate and enhance the international credentials of the weekend by including the competition between the two hemispheres' top club sides? Something more at stake rather than just a couple of league games. Why would SL need to financially support it? They would be guests, not hosts.
  2. Absolutely. He's the heir apparent and has the Fox and News Corp power at his fingertips. Also, a long-time believer in RL (or should that be Australian RL?).
  3. Very positive reporting on the main Foxnews homepage : https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rugby-star-takes-page-out-rob-gronkowskis-book-try-nrl-dazzles-las-vegas
  4. Yes, it ticked all the boxes. For sure, the NRL will be more than happy with that.
  5. Lots of the less salubrious hotels did really cheap buffets, but the Boardwalk was in a league of it's own as far as low prices were concerned. Another was Sahara, and also Bourbon Street too. These three made Circus Circus look positively upmarket (which it certainly wasn't). The Bellagio was the bees knees back in the day, but newer hotels have probably got the most lavish buffets these days, Wynn and Encore being examples of such when I last visited about 13 years ago.
  6. I'd have a stab at Castleford, Salford, Huddersfield and maybe Wakefield until their relegation being anti-Dragon, but that's just guesswork. None of them are shining examples of how elite sport in the UK should be run.
  7. Thanks for that. On the RFL website though, "knock on means to knock the ball towards the opponent's dead ball line with hand or arm." If it's not towards the opposition goal line, then it's not a knock-on by the RFL's own definition.
  8. Only just tuned into the Swinton-Oldham game on The Sportsman, but there was a couple of knock-ons called by the referee in the last five minutes even though the ball, although mishandled, always went backwards toward the players own goal line and was not advanced towards the opponent's try line. Is there a nuance that a dropped or mishandled pass is given as a knock-on when there is no forward motion of the ball? RU seems to have sorted this out, a dropped ball which goes backwards is not called as a knock-on, whereas in RL a dropped pass seems to be a knock-on regardless.
  9. HKR over-celebrating dropped passes by the opposition, not a great look...
  10. Do they have any options, other than to stay put? Their dream of buying the AJ Bell is over, just as SRD's nightmare of being evicted is too. Certainly a win for RL last night. RU, not so much.
  11. Is there any reports on which of the French teams are showing interest? The 3 richest RU clubs in the world are all French. Racing 92 owned by Swiss billionaire Jacky Lorenzetti (worth 4 billion Euros), Stadt Francais owned by German billionaire Hans-Peter Wild (worth 3 billion Euros), and Montpellier owned by Syrian billionaire Mohed Altrad (worth 1.7 billion Euros). Stadt Francais and Racing 92 are flying high but Montpellier are in bottom place (14th in the Top 14) and might even be relegated (although yo-yo club Perpignan aren't doing that much better).
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