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Yes he was from Elbra.

Aye, and lets not forget that the corner flag was "in touch" back then - half the tries scored by wingers today would have been disallowed back then.

Not really true. Hull City’s average attendance is around 22,000 this season which is similar to the 2 RL clubs combined. Plus of course in many of these towns there will be many people who support both the RL and football clubs.

Sky Arena

They showed Warrington v Leeds full game from April 1995 (The Big League) last night, quite an entertaining watch. They should show more retro games.

I remember seeing a documentary about Town with Ike and Andy Key being interviewed and they asked Ike where he got his speed from. In his own inimitable fashion he said "I had 3 owlder brothers, so I ran to git yam frae school afor them so I'd git fed frae t'fust pan o' chips".

I don't think we can expect to see the old Jarrad, he is 37 now and his legs are 7 years older than when he last played for us. Him and Buffer have a combined age of 76 when they play in the halves together !

Blue Lights returns for a second series on Monday, first series was pretty good so hopefully it'll be a decent watch.

I didn’t realise they had banned Andrew, I know they threatened to call the police if he didn’t take his flag down but thought that was the end of the matter. Very poor from Town if he’s been banned from the ground.

Yes but that’s like saying Man Utd would have a huge disparity with Brentford. It’s just a by-product of being a bigger, more commercially successful organisation. The cap does exactly what it’s meant to do. There is a misconception that it’s meant to equalise teams and make them all the same standard. Its real aim is to stop clubs spending what they can’t afford while allowing flexibility for those that can. In that sense it is successful. It might be frustrating for fans of clubs who can’t match the spending of others, but the clear message there is develop your own players, grow your commercial income and don’t just be a RL team, be a successful business.

But the cap is a formula not a restriction on spend. Which is why Wigan can legitimately spend £1m more than the cap. You could drop the cap to £1m and Wigan would still be able to outspend some other clubs by the same ratio. Player development is key - I don’t know if he is but if Harry Smith, for example, is their nominated club-trained marquee player then he counts for just £50k on the cap. They could pay him say £200k a year without any impact on the cap. Unless you make the cap an absolute spend figure and remove all of the dispensations (marquee players, home grown, fed trained etc) then some clubs will always be able to outspend others, that’s just a fact of life.

It’s all relative. There are basketball and American Football players earning twice that. If the sport/clubs can afford it then good luck to them. The reason there are no big earners in RL is simply down to affordability, I can guarantee you that if SL were suddenly handed an extra £100m a year tomorrow then most of it would go on player wages. The players wouldn’t be any better than they are now but the market would change. It’s what happened at the beginning of SL when distinctly average players suddenly went from £20k a year to being £100k a year players overnight, especially during the SL war when the NRL(ARL) were offering big money to average British players. This led to some players pocketing 6 figure “loyalty bonuses” simply for staying at home in the UK. Players are a commodity, and with any commodity the market will decide their value.

£240k a week doesn’t even put him in the top 10 highest paid players in the Premier League. Highest paid is Kevin De Bruyne, on a reported £425k a week.

Are you trying to trigger him ?

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