marklaspalmas

Norths had already been out a few years by then. Gosford is now built. Is this a non starter for the Bears now?

I wasn't referring to Manly. I was referring to another franchise which would see Norths play out of Gosford. Maybe around the time when the Titans came in.

Was that not the merger with Manly 20 years ago? A couple of years ago, a team based at Gosford was mooted.

I'd like to see Perth and NZ II. I'm not sure how feasible PNG would be. Another Queensland club seems logical. There was talk of Norths linking up with some Central Coast club based at Gosford. What happened to that? I assume Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart and Melbourne II are all non-starters at this stage?

It's been ages since we had a game. There's one coming up on Sunday. Dewsbury have not been amazing this year (1 win from 7) but we can take nothing for granted in a very open league. Looking at the league table, I think the top 6 now may well be the top 6 come September. Wakey out front, with us, Toulouse, Bradford, Widnes and Sheffield jockeying for positions. Not that I'm ruling out any other team mind. In terms of our possible squad for this weekend, things to look out for: Hopefully Caleb Aekins will be back soon. Gadwin Springer and Thomas lacans are the major injured players at the moment. All kinds of question marks surrounding Jayden Tanner. Massey and Hardcastle seemed to come back from injury ok. GG will (I assume) be suspended. A chance for Wacokecoke? Which players will be available on DR? Is Luke Hooley still with us on loan? Up The Rovers.

That's my view too. He'd be a quality Championship player at any club

Yes, we had both Callum McLelland and Jake Sweeting at Rovers. They're both still young and worth keeping tabs on. I thought McLelland looked ok but he had a lot of injuries. Their team did lose at home to Cornwall today.

Good shout! He may be worth another look.

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Yeah. The move sideways to Odsal made no sense, but I guess that was the Peter Fox influence. Took him two years to work out his mistake.

Graham Steadman. More than Deryck Fox and Paul Newlove which makes no sense, but there you go.

Which four teams make the semis? 2008 had a loaded group A with three teams to the SF, didn't it? The draw will be crucial.

I'm not convinced your idea makes 12 the "perfect number". However, it's a ten team comp. How will they make that work?

Ah yes, ta. Just looked it up. A stacked 'super group' of four then and a muddle of all sorts to get some semifinals. Urgh.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but how will a ten team competition be organised? Was it 1995 when there were groups of 4, 3 and 3? It's a difficult number.