Sports Prophet

Was that article of the Blues CEO meant to include anything about the Warriors admission you mentioned?

What were the results?

I saw the last ten minutes of Dogs and Tigers @Graham. I thought her performance in that section alone was pretty ordinary. Her man management looked to be out the window and she was saved by the bunker and a captains call for a howler knock on call not given in a double knock on incident. Not sure about her performance in Raiders a few weeks ago like @Anita Bath mentioned, but a friend I caught up with later in the evening said her performance in yesterday’s game was terrible. He is not a social media guy and we are not in Sydney, so he wouldn’t have been influenced by anything other than her performance to come to that conclusion.

I didn’t see much of the huff and puff about Api’s disallowed try last week. Importantly I didn’t hear Annesly’s explanation to which I think he said the on field decision was correct. I haven’t seen the incident you are referring to here either, but I have always disagreed with the notion that a ball needs to be re-gripped before it touches the ground. I’m not sure if this is still a directive. From your explanation of the incident above, sounds like maybe it has changed.

From afar, it simply appears that Leigh have pulled together this strong spirit of community all of a sudden. Beaumont has been at the club since the mid teens if I am not mistaken. So I am keen to identify what is different between the Centurions of 2017 and the Leopards of 2024 which has had such a marvellous impact on the club? I really respect what has been achieved and whilst there are fruits of whatever labour there has been, I would anticipate a few more years in this same vein will be important to make a big impact among the still to be influenced next generation. Succeed with that and the club really does have a great future ahead of it.

Nice summary. I’ve really no knowledge of most of the lower clubs, defunct clubs and their backgrounds.

Yeah, they’ve really turned their match days into must see events. How long has Derek been at the helm for?

I think Roosters are somehow stalling it, but I don’t think they can stall it for long.

Matty Johns podcast talks good game with Cooper Cronk, who I think is the best pundit the game has.

I wouldn’t say it’s holding the NRL back, but it’s certainly a big soulless eye sore. Sooner Souths get back to SFS the better. Just checked maps now, it takes 1 - 1.5 hours to get there from Canterbury with public transport. It’s poorly accessible.

If only Norths focused their energy on a Central Coast NRL bid, rather than ridiculous notions like this to remain relevant, they may forge a meaningful future.

Tricky runners there for the Sea Eagles

Yeo laments poor crowd for their win over Souths last night. "They said there was 8,000 there tonight but there was probably half that.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/nrl-live-south-sydney-rabbitohs-penrith-panthers-round-nine/103798212

I shared a thought some time ago around NRL memberships in addition to club memberships. For those calling on CC tickets to be included in season tickets, what about a different perspective. What if the RFL had a season ticket membership. For the sake of discussion, let’s just say this season ticket is £50. That ticket will then entitle the holder to: - £5 GA tickets and heavily discounted reserved seating tickets for all Challenge Cup fixtures from the last 32. - In partnership with all SL clubs, £5 GA tickets at all SL fixtures. First come first served. - Discounted England merch. - £10 limited GA tickets to SL semi finals. - £10 limited GA tickets to representative fixtures. I think this idea will: - create a new revenue stream for the RFL. - make the CC more enticing and accessible to more people more often. - attract larger away crowds at SL fixtures. - attract neutral RL fans to more CC and SL fixtures.

The Challenge Cup is simply too important an competition to just let whither and die. I don’t know how much the BBC pay for the rights, but this is a competition which gives RL its greatest exposure to the wider public and not just the final. To shrug shoulders and say the Challenge Cup is in a state of “managed decline” is an atrocious perspective for anyone at the RFL to be heralding, especially to a journalist. I hope it wasn’t a senior RFL official, but I anticipate it could well have been. As far as I am concerned, that type of mindset, if widely held at the RFL, simply demonstrates how awful an administrative body the RFL are. The CC must stay and it must find a way to be relevant to modern day RL supporters and casual observers alike.