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Could have said similar things about Leigh, Featherstone, dozens of other teams in the Championship who have had a cash injection or lucrative tie-up over the last few years. So what if it's Newcastle? Don't like it but it's modern sport, sadly. Everything is down to money. Looking forward to the game - improve our discipline and we might give them a game.

Got a lot of time for Newcastle and the people behind the club. To keep it going for over quarter of a century, against the odds, is some achievement. Even though we won easily up there last season it was great to hear Geordie accents on and off the field. A win for rugby league, even if they lose. I don't begrudge them a bit of success whatsoever, just hope that they keep the pioneering spirit of expanding the game in the North East. That said, I do hope we take the points off them in a couple of weeks.

Don't see the obsession with the referee's calls. Surely our players and coaching staff should have the nous to see what we are getting pinged for and react to it. But no. Should have won that game a lot easier than we did. Coates seems to be taking on the line more and it's great to see Nelmesy back with his wrecking ball devastation. Enjoyable start to the season. Mike Ford leaving Oldham, who seem to be sliding into the rugby league doom loop of not learning from past mistakes, means we have a fair chance of making it four from four next week. Bring it on.

Got to beat West Hull or King Cross first. They might fancy their chances against us.

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Met him in Perpignan a few years ago, lovely guy and enjoyed his reporting on the game.

It was a good night and well attended. Arrived bang on 7.30pm and it was standing room only by then. Players, staff and fans in good spirits. Shirts are decent. Let's hope it translates into good results on the pitch and a few more folk through the turnstiles.

I thought it was really good too. Adam Hills' welcome page raised a chuckle and was a refreshing change to the usual turgid platitudes in those things.

World Cup Final, my first trip to Wembley in 1992, in the days when my team's supporters club got behind the national side and ran a bus to matches. Tense and ultimately heartbreaking match but what an occasion and atmosphere. Still rank that period as the time when rugby league was at its most successful and visible in this country.

It was a great night, got to speak to the players - some of whom don't look much different than they did quarter of a century ago. Well done to all those who organised and turned up.

The only competition for which loop fixtures might actually be a decent idea.

I really like the 1895, great chance for lower league clubs to get to Wembley - it just needs the final to be before the main match. I can't understand the current apathy towards cup competitions. I'd rather Dewsbury win the 1895 Cup and have a day out at Wembo to remember for the ages, rather than another pointless promotion to the Championship followed by immediate relegation. York fans seemed to be loving it last week and were partying with the players in the city's riverside pubs the next day. We should all be making 1895 Cups out of tin foil to hold up at matches as we throng on the terraces. Viva las 1895 Cup.

I watched it again (from behind the sofa). It really was a nailbiter at the end. The games against the star-studded Wigan teams from the 1980s and 90s are also on YouTube. We gave them some good battles. There were moments when they struggled to stop the likes of Dennis Bailey, Nathan Graham, Mark Haigh, Darren Rogers etc.

And here it is again to watch in all its glory. Don't recall a gale though.

Dews 22 Goolies 18 MoM Hookem Att 600 I fear our discipline and concentration will wobble and our new signing will do his knee in but we'll scrape home. Interesting watching the post-match interviews after the Wembley finals. The first thing the winning players mentioned was "togetherness". Do Dewsbury have that?