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JohnM

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  1. Oh dear, M jM, I think it's rather you who is disconnected. Whilst what you say may be correct, it is by far not the whole story, as you know. The Times and the Sunday Times regularly print supplements dedicated to Rugby Union with lots of support from advertisers. On line or off line, the Guardian is still a miserable rag dedicated to complaining how bad things were, are and will be in England and deducated to providing BBC News and Current Affairs with it's content. In addition, it's on line presence is free, unlike the proper newspapers. Indeed, even the Mail is gradually going behind a payeall. And you know what they say: something free is worth every penny you pay. The demographic of the Guardian is 86% ABC1. 54% of The Guardian readers are male, and the average age of the print reader is 54.18. What do they know if the life and leisure of the horny handed sons of toil that make up the mass of rugby league supporters? Answers on a pin head, please. 1.7billion minutes were spent on MailOnline's websites and app in July 909million for Guardian, 688million for Sun and 417million for Mirror Average dwell time for dailymail.co.uk site and app users is 75 minutes 48 minutes on Guardian, 27 minutes on Sun and 16 minutes on Mirror
  2. "What irks me is the slavish coverage of Union in the so called quality papers of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mail and yes Guardian." I agree completely. I don't rate the Express or Mail as "quality" though, and the Guardian has a trivial circulation of mainly Owen Jones/Melvyn Bragg-ish acolytes (present company excepted, of course) There's a real story there for a Guardian reporter to investigate why that is.
  3. On this day, in 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven stopped composing and started decomposing.
  4. First I've heard of it. Fev probably not alone in this situation "No he's just a lazy get." Nice there.
  5. In my view, repeated, is that promotion only by performance on the field is not what it seems. Performance on the field depends on the actual players and the quality of the coaching team. The player roster depends on how much a club can pay, how good a club is at attracting players because of the quality of the coaching teams. The quality of the coaching team has it's own dependencies, too. Also in play is club ambition, spectator numbers etc. All these things are taken into account in the grading scheme. As regards the Guardian article, a much more productive and valuable subject might have been to investigate why the mainstream media - Mail, Mirror, Independent, Times. Telegraph give so little coverage to the sport as a whole and especially to match previews and reviews. The odd article in the relentlessly negative low-circulation Guardian hardly counts, unless of course I have it wrong and it turns out to be the favoured paper of our target audience.
  6. Of course I read it. As I said earlier, I miss Peter Tinniswood and Uncle Mort. Just a shame it wasnt in a paper with a wider and more representative readership.
  7. The sole function of ANY article in the Guardian is to increase the misery of its readership. Just a thought: its not IMG that is making the decisions here and it might just be that the RFL, SL, the Championship, with IMG supporting them, know what they are doing. It's a 12 year project, which itself is revolutionary and beats the normal RL project like time by 11 years
  8. I appreciate that finding an NHS dentist may be very difficult but not impossible. Avoiding all politics. We live in Lincolnshire. We have an NHS dentist in Lincolnshire . That dentist is a MyDentist practice. A new NHS dentist has just set up in a town just 4 miles from here,too. There is an alternative. https://www.dental-world.co.uk/p/restoratives/glass-ionomers/gc/glass-ionomer-fuji-ix-gp-gc-11-pack-a3/31706
  9. This topic is titled "Fev not paying staff". The RL media has been criticised in the past for not being tough enough in it's approach. Easy peasy ( and this applies to ALL clubs) 1. have all the players been paid in full? 2. Has the money deducted for pension contributions been paid? 3. Has the club passed on to HMRC the income tax and NI contributions it has deducted from players wages? 4. Has the club paid it's suppliers in line with the TS and C's?
  10. I do so miss Peter Tinniswood and Uncle Mort.
  11. Referencing soccer, Sheffield and Burnley's season is over almost before the season has started, yet they drive onwards, not giving up. Re: cups. The FA Cup is going strong : the atmosphere in Coventry is electric, as it was until recently at Maidstone. Sure , soccer is different: more money, more fans, but just as many fans resenting the "money men" and the " prawn sandwich brigade" and harking back to the days of jumpers for goalposts. The plain fact is, there are just not enough Dansons etc in our sport.
  12. The best think for us to do is to ignore this whole venture and let the NRL get on with it. If they want to waste their own money on it, it's up to them. .. .......unless and until it's a long-term and sustainable success and we wake up one day and find our parochialism and lack of vision has frozen us out.
  13. Fascinating interview with Ash Handley on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra during the Warrington Vs London commentary half time break. An insight into how professional and dedicated he is. It available on BBC Sounds as a podcast:5 Live Rugby League - Helping Handley.
  14. It's not fair, we wuz robbed. I thought we were supposed to be discussing the game. "Please stick to discussing the matches in question and do not accuse match officials of being biased...."
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