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I worry that the whole Valencia project is solely founded on attracting visiting UK fans, plus trying to appeal to British expats in the area, and it actually has no Spanish element to it at all. Surely they have to put down some roots first, and ideally play in an appropriate competition before even thinking about joining the RFL system. Otherwise it will end up being yet another false dawn, based on social media and one mans dream.

Nothing wrong with a dream (I should know about that LOL:) Any new RL has to be encouraged but also has to be realistic, my own personal opinion of the proposed European comp is that it seems a little far fetched however if it does happen I wish it well. France has to be the No 1 priority at present. Paul

Approx 13 months passed between the the Fev match and the pandemic hitting Spain HAHAHAHA not really FEV played saturday 11th january 2020 and according to reports pandemic started 31 january 2020 in both UK and spain so that's a short 13 months they had ample time to get some activity going. valencia agreed to play kieghley in may and rochdale in june 2020 in the uk and to play North Luzon Headhunters in the phillapines in july but all were postponed due to covid and last year although no dates confirmed FEV agreed to go on anther jolly to valencia this january but again it was cancelled at the game we spoke yo teir CEO dean buchan and he said they wanted to develop relationships with clubs in the UK and trying to get a few friendlies against League one opposition in 2020 he also said they were visiting schools and promoting Rugby league to the next generation https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/rochdale-confirm-friendly-against-valencia-huracanes/ https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/sport/18266847.keighley-set-face-valencia-may-friendly/ https://edandaya.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/ph-gets-chance-to-play-spain-in-rugby/

Named at 13 for Canterbury this week. It wasn't iced at the end of the game last week so was probably minor first game back niggle.

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I'm enjoying playing touch again down here in Kent. Off to play in a minute, actually. It's a weird one because our games are notionally under the 02 Touch umbrella but the sessions seems to be run by England Touch, which works with the RFL (as well as the RFU) and is affiliated to the Federation of International Touch, which in turn is affiliated to the NRL via Touch Football Australia. Also, I notice Wigan Touch Warriors are one of the leading touch sides in England. So touch is not a totally union thing here.

Didn`t like Darklands much when it was released. Liked it a lot subsequently. One of those albums that aged well.

Ronnie James Dio deserves far more credit than he ever got. Chris Cornell`s vocal style was very similar. And Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, etc, all owed a lot to the sound of Rainbow Rising and Long Live Rock `n` Roll.

Heard the 'booming bittern' on a walk down the river to Fairburn Ings. Mrs S fascinated by the guano covering the trees being used by the nesting cormorants. Then when back home wondered why the songbirds were getting all excited and a chaffinch was hiding behind the feeders but not feeding before noticing the male and female sparrowhawks patrolling the sky - the male came zooming along the hedge at the bottom of the garden at one point.

Easy. Go to YT, type in "easy rider the weight scene" and hit enter or "search" icon.

Exactly. Except even further away.

Exactly. One of my pet peeves is that all you need to create a bit of excitement in RL is talk a good game and set up a social media account. Clubs get a lot of air time without ever having played a game. It's hard work setting up and running a rugby league club and unless you have a shed load of money there are no shortcuts