Dave T

Could tell he was special even when playing for us as a kid. A step above. But he was a miserable git.

Beat me to it. Iestyn Harris was a particularly unsavoury one to, although I've never found him a likeable player he was absolute class.

That's a good victory against a good team.

Tbh, it looks like SARL ripped that story off. It's odd that the Match Commissioner approached Myler, somebody (unnamed) asked him would he be happy to allow Wire 8 subs, but the match commissioner told him it wasn't his choice. The series of events is a bit all over the place. I like the quote of "I didn't say anything to a certain extent"

I'll repeat that it's a Warrington error and Burgess needs to grow up, but if you're referring to the SARL article, then I think taht was written by Myler himself on his laptop!

Agreed. League games look good. Cup games look worse, tge longer we leave it the more we spiral. That Leeds v Saints Cup game this year was the perfect illustration that current way of selling doesn't work.

International rugby league fixtures 2023-2030 (intrl.sport) Yes, the Ashes is meant to be next year. No more details than that. There have been a couple of threads on here in recent weeks about what kind of tour people would like to see.

I'm not a subscriber but if I go on the app, all 6 games from the last round are in the 'Games on Demand' section...

Are the Sky main games not on delay on SL+? SuperLeague+ will then broadcast four live games during each round in the opening 15 rounds, with the remaining two fixtures available with a 48 hour delay on demand for annual subscribers

Yep. In effect, this buries SL coverage further by moving us off the main channels (apart from the two main games per week), but for customers it means little. I'm with virgin media, so not 100% sure what happens there, hopefully the app will go on there, but who knows.

It doesn't change anything. This is for Sky subscribers. In fact, it makes the Sky offer less compelling for those who maybe don't want to stream. Although I'm not sure if this can be accessed by Sky/Virgin boxes.

There is also the challenge that quite often the Cup games are lesser events. Clubs don't make any effort with the 'event' sometimes not all stands or bars are open, the crowd could be half that of a league game etc.

1. The RFL had been the main driver of the Tri/Four nations concept, and when the RFL had substantial sway on the international board it was agreed to move into a Fed Cup which was an expanded Tri-Nations. There is no reason to believe that the RFL abandoned this tournament to replace it with nothing. 2. Nonsense. It was a Test match played during the international window. Every other sport does this. This one really shouldn't be up for debate, it was as clear a sabotage as you'll ever get. 3. As I said, I do have some sympathy here on the Covid point, but it does jar somewhat when we cancelled our tournament and RU was staging huge games in major stadiums here at the time our tournament should have been held. On the 6th November 2021 - Italy had 29k in, Ireland 40k, Wales 70k, England 81k and France 55k. Australia Union played three consecutive Tests over those weeks in front of 67k, 81k and 68k. NZ were over for 4 weeks in front of even more fans. 4. Tonga series was underwhelming - but lets be clear here - it compares very favourably to much of the stuff that the NRL has put on internationally. Australia played three tests this Autumn and they got 18k, 20k and 13k - with two of these being against their closest rivals NZ.

It's not necessarily disrespectful, I think it's a fair question around the value/going rate of Women's RL at this stage. Just had a quick look on Wire's Facebook and their home game was a fiver, Leeds charged a tenner (kids free). The fifteen at Hudds seems out of kilter, particularly when you are also selling a men's game at £22 that day too. As a comparison point, Women's football SL you can get a ticket for Man City's last game for £12.