John Drake

Rumours of missing episodes being found … https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2025/10/06/more-missing-episodes-of-doctor-who-confirmed-to-exist-announcement-expected-shortly/ Hope it’s true!

Any chance this MATCH THREAD could remain a discussion on the MATCH?

Try going on X or Facebook and saying Jodie Whittaker and/or Ncuti Gatwa were very good in Doctor Who. Then you will know true pain.

Several posts removed. No politics in here please. Ta.

I think it matters greatly how (and where) you express an opinion, as to the kind of reaction you'll receive to it. If you were to say 'Only Fools and Horses wasn't my cup of tea, I didn't find it funny' that's very different to saying 'Only Fools and Horses isn't funny' especially to someone who loves the show. If you're just dissing something that lots of other people enjoy, the reaction isn't likely to be very friendly. Imagine if someone posted on here that they thought rugby league was a load of old tripe. I'd ban them for trolling.

All the DEI stuff has been binned from this thread because, well, why do you think? Because people can't resist climbing onto their political soapboxes and it all turns nasty. There's a sub-section of the forum for that (the political discussion, not the nastiness, which has no place on TRL), and it isn't here. Back on topic, or the thread gets locked. Thanks.

I've never been in the press box at Odsal. I've only ever watched games there stood on the terraces and, very occasionally (except when we were in League One and I splashed out on a more expensive season ticket to help the club) sat in the main stand. I get why away fans don't like it, but you're not supposed to, it's not your home ground, its ours!

It was hardly likely to, with the club struggling for survival in the Championship and briefly, League One. As a Bulls fan, I do get frustrated with people slagging Odsal off as if there was some other better option magically available or financially affordable.

Well, they actually did, if you look at what Odsal was like in 1996. In fact, they probably jeopardised the club's future by sinking so much money into the corporate stand behind the sticks, where the old stock car pits used to be.

I think you'd be wrong about that. Odsal is what it is. Home to Bradford Bulls. There are no better options on the table, just uncosted fantasies, so the club just has to make the best of what they've got. They were quite good at that when they were in Super League and put most other clubs with supposedly better facilities to shame. Obviously it's a lot harder in the Championship because there's less money, but even so, last weekend they ad the biggest crowd in the competition by some distance, against a team with no travelling support, on a night when the weather wasn't the best. Is it perfect? No. Is it as bad as some are making out here? Definitely not.

Can we get this thread back on topic please, or it'll be locked. Thanks.

Just binned off a whole load of off-topic bickering from this thread. Please bear this thread below in mind when posting on TRL. Thanks.

A quick reminder of the Terms & Conditions of use on these forums, which everyone on here has signed up to and which help keep it a relatively pleasant place to engage. There's a bit of nastiness creeping into some recent contributions, and it isn't welcomed or necessary on here. TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE Last updated 10th April 2019 Your use of these forums constitutes your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. League Publications Ltd (LPL) reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes here. Your continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes. You agree to use the site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or League Publications Ltd. These Terms & Conditions apply in full to all communications made on this site, whether in the public forums or via the Private Messaging system. All contributions must be civil and tasteful. No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour. Contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble. No unlawful or objectionable content. Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable. Only one username per person is allowed. If you attempt to use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the forum or annoying other users, use the personal details of another individual to register one or more accounts, or deliberately swap your username with someone else for the same purpose, your account may be disabled without warning. No spamming or off-topic material. No advertising without prior permission. No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names, or usernames which are an attempt to impersonate another individual. We reserve the right to issue warnings and/or temporarily/permanently suspend access to all or part of the site if any of the above conditions are infringed. We reserve the right to request a user to validate their identity by post in order to continue using the forum. All users accept complete and total responsibility for any potentially harmful, libelous or other legally actionable comments and that they indemnify League Publications Ltd to the total extent of any and all costs, settlements and judgements involved with defending any legal claim against their posts. If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, your use of the site must be terminated immediately.

This is already being discussed here: https://www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php?/topic/338076-brits-in-the-nrl/

Locking this now, because it's drifted waaaaaaaaaay off topic now and I can't be bothered editing out the last few pages of argy-bargy that has nothing to do with the thread title whatsoever. Feel free to start a new thread to discuss the actuality, rather than the possibility, of a 14-team Super League next season, if you feel there's anything new or interesting to say on the subject. Also, please do not use words that would otherwise be blocked by our swear filter by thinly disguising them with different letters like @!$ etc. The swear filter is there for a reason. We don't want that sort of discourse on TRL. Thanks.