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Obviously a lot of games to be played between now and Armstrong being available again, so who knows what will happen. Contracts might also play a part, with Hodgson only contracted for next year and Armstrong likely having an NRL clause, should any offers come in during his 3 year contract. But my hope is that we can tie Hodgson down to a longer contract. At the moment, I would say Armstrong would still be my pick if he was available. Hodgson gets through a ton of work, but Armstrong is a match winner. But if Hodgson adds some line breaks, tries and assists to his stats then he will be a shoe in for the number 1 shirt. He'll need to pick a few things up with experience as well, like how he's numbering the defence up and he might be a bit smarter with the number of carries he takes. There were a few yesterday that I thought would've been better served taken by a forward and let him at least try and conserve some more energy to allow him to provide a bit more attacking threat.

Still stupid. Retaliation never ends well for a player.

Just seen a replay that someone has posted. Don’t think there is anything in the Lam on Litten challenge bar an accident from one player trying to play the ball and a defender staying in the ruck. Charnley might have a case to answer for the lash out on Davies though

Awful goal line defence from Wakey. That one looked like he landed short and the defenders dragged him over

Whilever we have a second tier living off scraps in funding and week to week loans and DR players, with the pinnacle being a final game played on one of the club's home grounds, then clubs will do whatever they can to avoid it.

He was saying Catalans were being kicked out not so long ago. He seems to be on a rabble rousing mission. Of course, there is the possibility that Bradford end up in the top 14 gradings, and make a mockery of the facilities scoring in the process.

The crowds will soon drop if a team is getting hammered every week though. Leigh did the reduced funding place in 2021, it was not good.

Not sure IMG points will be relevant any more.

Isn't this just a reflection of the quality of young players clubs can attract in the first place, rather than the work the club does with them?

Looks like you can still buy south stand tickets on the LSV ticketing site

I'm not a Super League club. I am skint though.

Whenever there are incidents like this, and the Nsemba one in the GF, I do like how fans can add another string to their bow and become armchair doctors as well as armchair referees and coaches.

Not if they're better than the players they are replacing. Of course, we need to make sure player development systems are the best they can be, and we should be increasing dispensations for club trained, and even partially club trained (e.g. signed for a club at 19/20 and established themselves) on the salary cap. But if players being brought through aren't ready for Super League, then putting them in just because they're homegrown isn't going to improved the standard of the game.

But doesn't the second half of point 1 as well as point 2 equate to needing more strength in clubs 8(ish) to 24? I'm not sure the middle 8s was an exercise in levelling down to be honest. I wouldn't go back to it now, but I would've stuck with it a bit longer at the time. Just another thing we binned off quickly.

There might be. But not in time for next season for a lot of them.