JonM

Heads were so big that they couldn't run through gaps in the opposition defence without damage to their ears?

And yet, go to India, you'll see cricket being played on any surface. As a kid, we used to play RL on the concrete school playground, with a tin can for a ball, or even someone's pump nicked out of their PE bag. You were pretty motivated not to get caught in possession - and perhaps an explanation of why my primary school produced 3 halfbacks who played for GB in the 1980s-1990s.

I tend to run rather than walk, but I've done quite a few of the UK's long-distance paths, and the Hebridean Way is definitely my favourite so far. Some of the best shorter walks you really have to pick your time - the experience of say Malham Cove & Janet's Foss, or Dovedale in the Peak District would be rather different on a sunny summer bank holiday weekend...

I wonder how easy/ difficult it would be for someone to preserve these programmes for posterity by scanning them. Suspect it would be a massive undertaking to do this manually, but I assume there must be devices which can turn the pages automatically, as large quantities of books have been scanned this way?

Did York win on aggregate across the two legs?

12 207 was the announced figure.

It was widely stated as being a sell-out, so I'm not quite sure why the figure was several thousand down on capacity.

Canberra v Gold Coast 11 738 Wests v St. George 17 141 Parramatta v N. Queensland 14 443 NZ Warriors v Manly 23 076 Widnes v Halifax 2 558 Saints v Warrington 11 280 Castleford v Wigan 4097

Quite the turnaround from 4-14 at half-time to finish 40-14, but I thought we were on top even in the first half in spite of a bit of a lack of speed and intensity, just that we bombed a couple of tries and some great cover defence from Fax at times, whereas Halifax had three chances to score and took them all, with a couple of poor pieces of goal-line defence. Some brilliant passages of play from Widnes to get three tries in a bit over five minutes at the start of the second half, but we did get a couple of lucky bounces of the ball on kicks that led to tries and then Halifax fell apart a bit, and of course they started trying a bit too hard to catch up which led to more tries. Owens was obviously our best player, his lack of pace is deceptive .

Cracking first half that.

Looked a lot more like a strip than an attempted offload.

Is that the first penalty?

Charnley kinda saved 2 points there by continuing to chase Burgess right to the line and stopping him going under the posts.

Few games that could go either way this weekend - I reckon York v Wakefield is the only one where I'd probably have double figures for the handicap.

Brisbane Broncos v Dolphins 46 224 Melbourne Storm v Canterbury-Bankstown 16065 Newcastle vs Sydney Roosters 21940