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I like the green and black stripes and the red compliments it nicely.

Great win yesterday. Was impressed with defence in 2nd half....midlands were on top for first 20, then we started winning the territory battle and started scoring some nice tries. Djukessi was impressive, so was Atiga after a long lay off, Weirs best game. Would like to see Jebson in Centre as he has some pace!

Great to hear the crowd animated, quite rare at home, think it really lifts the team. Thought last week Jebson looked under cooked but terrific yesterday. Clark solid. Agree Callum looks back to the Callum of old and Dom always a threat - reminds me of Harry Smith. Like Unicorn I was bit worried 10 min into second half as we were getting troubled by their inside balls and runs and seemed to me to give them too much yardage on the play the ball as end of every set they ended up on our line. But great last 20 and will give us some confidence now for sure for the run in. Great Jake OK for next week he’s just class

HEWORTH are in mourning for Barry Jackson, who died aged 84 after a long illness on Sunday, July 6. Jackson, who leaves wife Wendy and...View the full article

HEWORTH are in mourning for Barry Jackson, who died aged 84 after a long illness on Sunday, July 6. Jackson, who leaves wife Wendy and...View the full article

Nothing was mentioned in the tent about Jake but Caine is definitely out for the season. Real shame and hope he's back next year. I'd like to see cooper and jebson at second row on Sunday if Jake isn't back.

Then his mates are just as bad. Trust me, it took me all my efforts to stay away from him and his mates, I enjoy going to the rugby and wont jeopardise that for some bloke who can’t handle his ale. Happened at the end of the game btw and why should others move because some p*ssed up cretin thinks it’s ok to abuse people? Let’s hope his kids/grandkids don’t come home from school/work having been told they’re a ###### wan*er for having a bad day eh! I guess the players family should just take it on the chin and find a quiet corner to stand in at the next game?

They feel the same but keep quiet? Doesn't sound like any Rugby League fan I know.

When I made a few posts earlier on this thread, I was assuming that the new 14-team league would then proceed with a similar IMG scoring system to the current one in terms of deciding future occupants of SL, but as others pointed out, that might not be the case any more. Apologies if this has already been discussed (I haven't read the whole thread) but I'm starting to think there might be some sort of return to promotion and relegation in the proposals, partly because there appears to have been very little public kickback so far from those Championship clubs who are not amongst the supposed "chosen three". For the likes of Toulouse, Oldham, Featherstone, Doncaster, Widnes, Halifax etc you would have expected fervent opposition to the plans - ie cherry-picking London, Bradford & York to go into SL and chucking the remainder of the Championship teams into one big league with the League 1 teams - but there doesn't seem to have been any of that, and indeed representatives of one of those clubs (Fev) in an interview last week which was fairly positive about the recent discussions suggested that some form of P & R underpinned by minimum standards might be back on the table. Am only guessing but that might have been the carrot needed to bring Championship clubs round to the idea of merging the 2 lower leagues, because in previous years most of them would have been strongly opposed to that.

Yep

Whilst on the subject of the match day experience at York, I’m a musician myself and wish whoever handles the music gave it a bit of thought. The last match I attended (a double header) they played songs like this, by the end of the match they’d played them 4 times each: Flo Rida - Good Feeling Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball Mabel - Boyfriend Compare that to a Knights/Night themed playlist of these timeless classics just off the top of my head, these songs would be known by people of all ages and feel less like you’re at a kids party: (K)nights In White Satin (Moody Blues) All Day and All Of The Night (Kinks) Crazy Nights (Kiss) Because The Night (Patti Smith/Springsteen) A Hard Days Night (Beatles) All Night Long (Lionel Ritchie) Strangers In The Night (Sinatra)

funny you should mention this.. ChatGPT recons Bristol Brigands

Congratulations to Marge and the Fat Chickens team scoring an excellent 1427 points in the round, our top scorer this week. Close call of the week: Deano beat Chris by just two points. At the top, Jigh in third place H2H beat leader Nelson. Talk about close calls look at 2nd and 3rd places in our total points comp. Airlie leads Michael by just one point! On a personal note I had my best week for a long time.

Great game yesterday, still some silly errors to iron out like playing the ball correctly, we coughed that up at least twice but some nice tries scored, Midlands certainly weren't the biggest side we have faced but they made good yards and tackled in numbers, I was impressed with their tall centre (3) he had cracking game, Dom had a great game and scored a great try as did Zac , Levi and Andy are a great combo Andy has been a great find, heard Jake is ok for Sunday , looked like plenty of money was raised for a great cause to , all in all a brilliant day, UTT

ADRIAN LAM has indicated that strong performances may not be enough for Josh Charnley to secure a new contract with Leigh Leopards. Charnley reached the...View the full article

ADRIAN LAM has indicated that strong performances may not be enough for Josh Charnley to secure a new contract with Leigh Leopards. Charnley reached the...View the full article

Maybe his mates were just thinking the same thing! And like I said if it's who I think it is, usually he will have had a drink and probably won't remember what he's even said, and if you were so offended why didn't you go pull him up! Or tell a steward to have a word? Or just move away!

WIGAN WARRIORS head coach Matt Peet was proud of his two debutants in Christian Wade and Harvey Makin as his team got back to winning...View the full article

WIGAN WARRIORS head coach Matt Peet was proud of his two debutants in Christian Wade and Harvey Makin as his team got back to winning...View the full article

I could imagine quite a few teams bringing a few thousand each - it’s not a generic trip to your Huddersfield or Salfords, its a new stadium for most of the clubs so it’s almost like a new stadium factor. Also last season there’s only a handful of York City’s opponents who brought more than a coachload - Oldham, Hartlepool, probably Rochdale and Southend. Maybe Halifax. So York Knights could easily achieve 5000 with the expected away support.

Thanks for the young man - I'm 69 but my eyesight is is still pretty good. I stand by my observations and more would if they were honest. Many people I speak to agree but keep quiet.

Have I said you have? I'll put money on Wilkin not knowing what a forward pass is, he doesn't know the refs signals (evidenced yesterday) and he played the game at the highest level. I didn't know the commentators traversed along the ground following the ball to keep them in line with play. I haven't said there is anything wrong with using stats, what I am on about is your continuous whinging and criticising of referees and questioning of decisions. Do you ever actually take any notice of what players are doing.

100% agree with above however it must blooming annoy clubs like Oldham when half the Championship teams tend to bring hardly any fans to away games. I bet at Bradford on Friday night there will be 3-400 Oldham fans there at least as is with most away games and that brings in a decent wedge for the home side (say about £8k for Bradford give or take concession, under 16 etc) so Oldham provide attractive opposition and a decent money spinner. I think this season at Boundary Park the only half decent followings have been Bradford & Featherstone. Yesterday when Sheffield scored a try I did not hear even a ripple of applause or cheering from anyone, I saw one bloke with a Sheffield top not far from where I was sat that was it, I'm assuming there were more somewhere in the JR stand but very few. Trying to increase attendances at BP has been discussed on many occasions so will not go into it here however unless Oldham have attractive opposition or something to play for a game against Sheffield Eagles with all due respect is not one to excite potential punters to attend. Most non rugby followers have only ever heard of Super League teams, the majority of potential new fans have probably never heard of Sheffield Eagles, Hunslet Hawkes, Batley Bulldogs for example so unless you put on some mega promotional event (£5 a ticket for arguments sake) your gonna struggle to get new punters through the door.

Cheers

Barrow to Workington is a 1hr 45 minute drive, merging them would be as sensible as merging Widnes and York, which takes the same time. Of the three though yes Barrow would seem to have the most potential to get to SL if an investor with more money then sense came along.