JohnM

The thing is "fatty" Burgess can always lose weight, but he can't recover from brain damage.

Good luck to the guy. Mischievous mode: has he been seconded by the NRL as part of The Great Take-over?

1. In general, who would want to own and run a Championship club? It takes a special sort of person and they are few and far between. 2. The essence of our sport is measured and contolled agression. It seems from the topic about brawls in the commmunity game and abusive social media posts as in this case, that not everyone agrees. 3. Its not compulsory to support the club and if anyone disagrees with the owners support for LGBT causes, they have a choice. Personally, I disliked Dave Whelan and Jack Robinson but that did not stop me being a Wigan season ticket holder. 4. Maybe if the RFL explained their objective, strategy and tactics in running the Championship, the Keighley owners might change their minds

I tend to agree on the bedding in issue but the independent panel did say this... As was set out on August 19, it was always the Panel's intention to use those gradings as one of the criteria in our deliberations, along with enhanced financial scrutiny and an assessment of competitiveness.

...you know that...

Disclosure: my late mother lived in Goodramgate in the early part of the last century.

I actually feel sorry for York. I do hope this is not terminal. For all my negative feelings towards This RFL and the way it emerged from the mire, I still want to see York and Toulouse survive in SL.

Perhaps the RFL will open the doors to more imports.

Quite a few breaks in York today already.

Job done!

A Philosophical Reflection on the York Knights and Bradford Bulls Confirmation Statements In the vast, humming archive of Companies House — a place where the living pulse of organisations is reduced to lines of data — two declarations arrive each year: the confirmation statements of the York Knights and the Bradford Bulls. To the untrained eye, they are administrative obligations. To a philosophical mind, they are something far more profound. York Knights: The Quiet Assertion of Identity The York Knights, heirs to a city shaped by Romans, Vikings, and centuries of reinvention, submit their confirmation statement like a knight renewing an oath. It is a modern ritual of continuity: We still stand. Our structure holds. Our purpose remains. In a world where identities blur and institutions rise and fall with the tides of fortune, this simple act becomes a metaphysical anchor. The Knights’ filing is not merely a record — it is a reaffirmation of being. A reminder that even in the digital age, existence must be declared, not assumed. Bradford Bulls: The Philosophy of Resilience The Bradford Bulls, forged in the furnace of rugby league passion and shaped by cycles of triumph, collapse, and rebirth, submit their own statement with a different energy. Where the Knights evoke heritage, the Bulls evoke endurance. Their confirmation statement is a testament to becoming — the philosophical idea that identity is not fixed but continually re‑created. The Bulls’ annual declaration whispers: We have been tested, but we persist. We have changed, but we remain ourselves. It is the paradox of resilience: to survive, one must evolve; to evolve, one must still recognise the self in the mirror. The Shared Lesson: To Exist Is to Reaffirm Both filings — one from York, one from Bradford — reveal a truth that applies far beyond Companies House. Every person, every organisation, every community must periodically pause and say: This is who we are. This is what has changed. This is what endures. The confirmation statement becomes a metaphor for the human condition. We, too, update our internal registers: the roles we still hold the relationships that define us the values we refuse to abandon the changes we have accepted, willingly or otherwise In this sense, Companies House is not merely a bureaucratic repository. It is a quiet cathedral of continuity — a place where the York Knights and Bradford Bulls stand as philosophical symbols of identity maintained through time. And perhaps the deepest insight is this: Existence is not passive. It is an act of continual confirmation. To endure is to declare oneself, again and again, in the face of forgetting.

i'm sure we'll all be keeping an eye out for a certain club's confirmation statement (whatever that is) which is due by 9 September 2026

Certainly Wire were out-muscled in many positions. Speed and skilled lightweights are clearly important, but Wire didn't have enough " oomph" Pedestrian tactics at their ptbs, not enough "go forward", but Leeds were clearly in song.

Leeds well on top so far. Do you think they've been practicing and rehearsing?