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The Womens schedule is very different. They start with a 17-round Sydney + Newcastle 11-team comp. There is also a National Championship with SE Qld, Qld Country, NSA City and NSW Country, Affiliated States and Armed Forces. There is also a SOO and a Qld v NSW Residents. The NRLW starting with the NRL Finals guarantees TV coverage because Fox Sports has all those slots to fill in. There are 50 new players registered in the four NRL teams this year so possibly next year they will expand to 6 or more. It will be interesting this week when the NZ Warriors play a stand-alone game in Auckland as most games have been double-bills with the NRL finals. In the Sydney Women's this year, Wests, Souths, Cronulla and the Doggies fielded official teams. Penrith had 2 feeder teams - St Mary's and Brothers. The other teams were Cabramatta, Mounties, Country RL based in Newcastle, North Sydney and Wentworthville which was probably an actual Wenty team rather than a Parra-affiliate. The standard is very good but I don't think they have enough players at that level yet to make a full mirror of the NRL

I'm in. I'll provide the flaming torches as well!

I've got my pitchfork, just say when. What they have done is utterly disgusting.

Possibly something of the politics board but ... today's front page 'story' in the Sun and what they have done to get it is beyond appalling. There is no public interest and it will obviously cause great harm and hurt to people. It's about, very tangentially, Ben Stokes and they have, like true heroes, waited until after the last press conference of the ECB summer before running it. Stokes's statement in response is remarkable for how measured and calm it is. I'd be happy lead a pitchfork wielding mob to burn down everything and everyone associated with the rag.

A Man City fan just told me he is thinking of going on holiday as it is cheaper after the school holidays... I told him you can't beat the Canaries this time of year.

Did 160 miles running in 7 days, mostly off-road, carrying my stuff in a small backpack. Feel surprisingly OK afterwards, no injuries.

not really mate. I stupidly didn't book the day off work, so moving round at a snails pace when I need to do anything. Some say they haven't noticed a difference. Must say I really enjoyed the walk, was on my own so just had my earphones on and head down, and did it in 7hrs, versus a par of 8hrs, so was pretty pleased - managed to raise £650 too for a youth charity my Wife setup earlier this year. A good day all round.

Leucistic magpie "spotted" near Geelong. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-13/rare-dalmation-like-spotted-magpie-photographed-in-victoria/11509778

Most of them are still going. Cumberland and Newcastle only dropped out because they had enough interest locally to form their own district leagues. Glebe still plays as Glebe-Burwood in the Ron Massey or Sydney Shield. University is in the Sydney Shield, I think. Annandale is dead. Western Reds still operate at junior levels. Crushers, Adelaide and Mariners are dead but the SARL is probably bigger now than it was during the Rams period.

Mrs Moose completed her 250 Park-run on Saturday. Today she ran in a long distance challenge event at York racecourse. To qualify for her running clubs ‘colours’ she had to stay in the race for a minimum of 6 hours and run a minimum of 34 miles. She’s been in bed, asleep since 9:00pm ?

Sounds like someone giving directions in some psychedelic Sci-fi novel doesn't it? "Nar then lad, you go down there til you reach the 2nd star on the right then go straight til morning and that's when you'll get to the land of green ginger!"