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He's flipped him over to be piled down directly onto his neck with his head bent towards his chest. Alex McKinnon's life changing tackle was less aggressive.

Definite red, could have paralysed him

You don't think the professional organisation that is the NRL will give a toss what the professional global organisation IMG think despite them having conducted the single most in depth audit into the market the NRL are allegedly buying into ever?

That's a very harsh red, but its the rules. Even in full speed it doesn't look great.

It annoys me that its a penalty, but it would annoy me more as a Cas fan that the tackler was lazy and followed through anyway.

I see totally the point you are making. Imo the future of any London clubs will be as hubs for wider southern/south eastern RL fans primarily.

London Broncos moving to Wimbledon and simultaneously going Semi-Pro killed Skolars imo sadly. The state of the game can't be judged on these clubs alone, but looking at them it isn't healthy.

Absolutely, it just shows how big the differences are though.

Its really poor that a club like Halifax aren't paying a sum like that - it demonstrates the massive gulf between the operating level of clubs at their level and the full time game...

Yeah I wonder if he'll switch sides or Sinfield will. Hopefully he bounces back from the disappointment of the past fortnight. I agree, just got to be a good performance here. Catalans are beatable, but we'd have to play well and rely on a meltdown from them as we have seen in the past. We do seem to be a bit of a bogey team for them too recently.

Indeed! Wonder how Frawley will come back.

I agree with that, but I'm 100% convinced that a system that ended up with cup games on Season Tickets for home fans would instantly boost attendances and make the whole thing seem, visibly at least, to be much more alive than it is now.

In the UK maybe, elsewhere no. Plus anyone who just wants RL can have SL+

Even if they were 1000, even 2000 freebies, that would still mean over 4000 more than attended the cup game! Not 100% sure re IMG. If I remember correctly it is measured on people in the stadium (so they would count). Obviously counter measure to this is that freebies cost money and investment, which is also something IMG monitor. I don't think there's a way to fudge it too much really.

We've built up a consumer base on one model, over 30 years, and wonder why adopting a totally different approach for one off games delivers worse results with our customer base.