Dave T

I don't 100% disagree, but we do see plenty of instances where that is the case and band are still dished out.

Yeah, I'm not sure tbh. Like I say, I thought it looked weird (without hearing any commentary of the tackle) so I'm not sure it is an orthodox tackle, but it'd be interesting to see other cases of this type of tackle, because I'm not sure whether it was bad or not!

The descriptions are useless, but I think using a knee to apply pressure on the players leg could be covered by that.

Beat me to it, that's what I thought I'd seen. It does appear to be an unusual position for the tacklers knee to be.

Yeah, looks a strange one. One thing that maybe looks odd is the tacklers knee goes into Isa, but not sure if that's me looking for something rather than being a real offence.

Considering you spend most of your time moaning about how Hudds fans are portrayed, it's weird you spend so much time fixated on Wire and their fans.

Indeed - this is an embarrassing quote: Rhodri Jones, RL Commercial Managing Director, adds: “I’m sure that there will be plenty of England supporters inside the Stade Ernest-Wallon to cheer on our Men and Women, and I’m thrilled that those supporters who can’t be there will be able to follow the action on Super League+. It’s a blank weekend in the 2024 fixture schedule, so Super League+ is the place to be for live Rugby League on Saturday 29 June.” How on earth are fans meant to go when this announcement doesn't mention anything about tickets - where can we get them, when are they on sale etc? Real basic stuff. Absolute rubbish.

It's always the struggling teams who will claim this isn't it? And tbh, it looks like it can only really be the case for Cas, and that smacks of excuses. The London one is a unique situation that won't ever happen again under this system.

Best I can find in terms of numbers for recent years showed semid finals at 7-900k average and final at 1.1m. These are on BBC 1 though, so will be interesting to see how this year's stack up as both quarters were on BBC 2 this year.

Fair, I don't know the capacity changes, but I would question about demand as per my earlier post, the stand at Cas is dire, I'd be surprised if there wasn't demand for these seats. Every other stadium has that demand.

It's only a waste if the new development happens quickly. And of course it could be said for other developments but the vast majority of clubs in SL, if not all now play in better grounds than when SL started. I'm not being critical of Cas' efforts, I agree with you about the difficulties, but that's the point. They can have improvements now guaranteed, or maybe some plans may come to fruition sometime in future, or not. I'm afraid they are at the point that guaranteed improvements are needed.

The problem here is that there is no certainty that their full development will ever happen. On that basis, improving what they have now makes sense. If their future development was 100% guaranteed then I'd agree with you.

I thought they seemed really low tbh. 340k and 380k average. We've certainly had much higher in the recent past.

That's a rather disingenuous read though. The outcome will be new modern seats in the stadium.

Other clubs don't have those high boards.