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I agree that scam is probably over the top but the fact is that the lessening of debts could probably have been achieved by just liquidating the company at a much earlier stage. Sad as it is, if it fails for the want of a relatively modest £10k, draw your own conclusions.

Me too.

That raises the question of what proportion of the crowd is friends and family.

We decided shoehorning in a dozen midweek games a season wasn't a great idea.

I'm not sure where we are commercially with Women's RL. Obviously it's something to be encouraged and some clubs are paying their players, though, no doubt at a lower level than the men's team. Playing simple, single price double headers isn't going to drag in revenue and playing a double header with two tickets required looks like it's a loser too. Maybe the best plan would be to play home women's games on weekends when the men's team are away, maybe not on the same day. That would keep the revenue coming in. Having said that, it seems to me that, currently, the women's game is very much like the men's game. A few good teams at the top, a lot of poor one underneath - only far more polarised. I don't know how much demand there is from spectators for the women's game or what the costs of staging the games might be. I wouldn't deny that it has a future or claim that it's a waste of time but we're certainly a long way from where we want to be.

Well, yes. If there's no tackle, it's not a voluntary tackle. The clue is in the word "tackle". Why is the stand off awkward? What's upset him?

You do know the "retain and transfer" system ended thirty years ago, don't you?

Ah - it's just a personal grudge, then.

Two years. Impressive.

Is this a new plan to grow the game by reducing the number of players in a team to twelve and playing dressed as monks?

Well, there's a question. That sounds very much like a "the-referee-gave-them-penalties-that-weren't-penalties-and-never-gave-us-anything" argument. And maybe you should reconsider "never". Forty years is a very long time.

No trains but there were a few trams going past. Technically, they are railways rather than trams at that point.

Scoreboard next to home dugout. Clock over tunnel. I assume you'd overindulged in the excellent alcoholic beverages on offer.

Apologies for never having been able to come up to your high standards over the last forty years.

Yes it has a scoreboard. And a clock. I was sat opposite one and next to the other. The lights, though, are poor. Not what we were promised. By a long chalk.