Wakefield Ram

Given he was in a leg brace at last weeks game I very much doubt he'll be playing.

Really depends what team we have out.

Have changed the title.

1973 Final https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ehpwrxCChCra9j9E/

One of the strengths of the NRL is that the top teams change. Before a ball is kicked in SL, we know Saints or Wigan will win the GF, London will be relegated. The NRL GF has had 13 different winners, SL has had 4 and Bradford unlikely ever to win it again. In the last 19 years it's 3 teams. The NRL have even allowed new teams to join expending the game whilst SL financially punish new clubs like Toronto and Catalans by forcing them to pay travel costs for the other clubs. The marquee player route is just a salary cap dodge to keep the top few clubs with more money ahead of the rest. Same clubs winning the same trophies.

In my working life, I have lost count of the number of times we have tried to grade products / software etc.. by coming up with a weighted matrix. Yes, it's all open to manipulation. I fully get something concrete like saying your stadium must have xx capacity to be in SL. It needs to be big enough to allow fans to attend and for the club to be able to generate income to compete. Or your club must not have been in administration in last 3 years to show some financial stability. But they have to be yes/no criteria. Anything else is open to manipulation, pure and simple. The points awarded and the weighting is totally subjective. It's made up and any club who narrowly miss out on SL due to whether they have electronic advertising boards etc.. and not due to playing performance will be entitled to go down the legal route. That we've allowed a third party (IMG) with no long-term interest in RL other than making themselves money shows the weakness in the RFL/SL leadership. And before anyone mentions "12 year strategic partnership" the last "strategic partnership" I came across on a work environment ended in the client (think RFL) suing the "strategic partner" (think IMG, but it wasn't them) for a large amount of money long before the proposed end of the partnership. And it was settled out of court. The club I support Dewsbury Rams will never be in SL unless some billionaire decides to put in millions, so I've no axe to bring in that sense. But other than something concrete yes/ no criteria like minimum stadium capacity, then it will cause more long-term damage to the game than any alleged extra income that IMG may or may not generate. And I would expect both sides have exit clauses in the contract, so it's only as long as either party want to be involved.

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Googled "catastrophic defeat at Runcorn" but couldn't find it....

The tries from Fozard were telegraphed.

Sonny Bill Williams https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/sbw-opens-up-about-his-diet-and-training-during-ramadan-30001/

Didn't remember that tbh

And another one 1966 Dewsbury 13 Wakefield 13 Crowd 6,880 Picture of Michael Hunte being tackled by Jim Naylor and Brian Taylor. Hunte helped Dewsbury out in late 1970s when we had sn injury crisis. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/cNH1apwUS5AkvotG/

Whether leaving out Turner and Rush was a tactical decision but to have neither was a big loss. Bailey was in a foot brace so guessing he's out for a few weeks.

Surprised there was no Callum Turner or Kieran Rush and we lacked creativity and our kicking game was poor. Despite a howling gale, we only tried a 40:20 a few minutes from the end. Their line speed was better and they put us on our backs far more than we did. They just had a bigger pack and they steamrollered us. They didn't have to do too much to score, two tries from acting half. On plus side, Beckett had a great game as did Owen Restall, but we need a lot more than grit and effort to win. We need to play the full 6 on the opposition line.

Lost Bevan French to whom? He wasn't even playing in the NRL.