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You're entitled to that opinion but it's completely detached from the reality which has been discussed in detail over the last 22 pages of this thread. I've no wish to go over that again.

After seeing the Hull one in person, I'm not a massive fan. I refuse to buy a shirt over £50 that doesn't have an embroidered badge. The sublimated badge looks cheap as hell. I wouldn't mind as much if it didn't lack so much detail. Doesn't have the detail on the crowns it should have. Comes across as cheaply made but wanting a lot of cash.

Jack Logan a centre is the 24th player to sign on for the 2022 season, welcome to the Knights Jack.

Just under 13000 for Notts County v Solihull Moors .

The extra year for our young NRL centres along with the young SL guys like Newman and Welsby could prove in terms of the team on the pitch to be our greatest benefit from the years delay to the World Cup. Young has stated his allegiance to Jamaica but that was more at a time when he would have been a squad depth or left at home guy, if he forces his way to the front of the queue for a team with realistic chances to win the competition he would likely take it.

Beautiful stuff this.

I can only judge the existing board on their track record so far and that track record is one of competence, realism and sustainable ambition. If we can get the move over the line and increase the capacity to at least 6,500 I'll be very optimistic about the direction we're heading.

Didn't think I'd find any football to enjoy this weekend, but I was wrong, it's all a question of finding International games with something riding on them. Bosnia vs Finland was very enjoyable, now watching Norway vs Latvia, a vital game. Wales play a crucial game tonight, and tomorrow two winner takes all matches in Russia vs Croatia and Spain vs Sweden.

Few people reel off anecdotes as effortlessly as Peter O'Toole.

Course it does

Not everything everyone does involves monitoring and reacting to whatever Leigh are up to.

good news , but probably the end for liam salter

Fullback - Restall Wing - Holcroft, Brierley Centre - Hartley, Cooke, Wellington Utility Back - Morgan Half back - Hewitt, Ridyard Prop - Nelmes, Coventry, Mills, Andrade, Newton Hooker - Jinks, Slater, Wright Second Row - Cameron, Grierson, Muranka Loose Forward - Squad = 20

If I put that on our telly the wife would chop my goolies off ….. again. She has a pathological hatred of Bruce Willis and his dirty vest. At the pub last Tuesday she was telling a friend how she can’t stand Willis and Stallone because they both wear dirty vests on screen

Good player is Jack I remember when he started out for Hull looked a classy player. We have good completion all over the backs now personally would like to see a bit more completion in the back row but overall the squad looks strong. Hopefully Joe Porter will resign depending how he gets over his knee injury he always gives his all would be nice to get James Macdonell back but I doubt that will happen.

It is very NZ I must admit. I do quite like it though, and the club have quite a rich history of kiwi players.

Seen this on Facebook. The the club haven't done an official launch yet, but I'm fairly sure it's genuine.

What questions Harry? It appears that this is our only option. No point going over the whys and wherefores yet again.

Farnworth and Young have the size and strength that we have been looking for at centre for years. Indeed ever since Australia and the NRL really pushed on with the calibre of athletes that they have playing the game we have never really caught up. Gleeson and Senior are perhaps the only two real quality centres we have had since the early 90s. While the likes of Gildart and Percival may be decent SL centres they just don't have the size and strength to deal with the other top nations outside backs. Both don't fill me with confidence defensively and have flaws. The other nations have backs with not just the skill and speed but also brute size and strength and England have to be able to match that. Its certainly exciting times for the England team and its great to have so many options out wide. That was practically unthinkable for much of the last 20 years.

Two very good athletes with big futures. While Farnworth played most of 2021 in the centre and Young on the wing, for England they could be more effective the other way around. Farnworth's carries bringing the ball away from the line are very good, he has size and footwork which means he typically gets a quick play the ball. Add the speed and he is a good winger but less of a classic centre. Young on the other hand could be a very good right centre. For a big man he has subtle hands and has shown a talent for getting his winger away. Looking forward to seeing how they both develop next year.

Amazing statistic for Dominic Young who is by no means a lightweight. Farnworth and Young might just be a feared England pairing for the years ahead. Big year, maybe even breakthrough, for both of them coming up.

First Sheffield Eagles don’t own the ground, so it’s not their decision, and also they don’t need a capacity bigger than they’re getting. On the one hand we have people on this forum moaning about grounds being too big (Huddersfield, Wigan) and on the other people are moaning about clubs having new grounds that aren’t far too big for them (Sheffield and Salford). Classic TRL forum.

Sheffield and Doncaster had schools playing not only in their areas but also Rotherham and Barnsley until funding was pulled

You mean such as building a lower capacity (seated) stand than first planned on the west side of the ground?

Just to update.. managed to pull my finger out and organise this and the training session is booked for the 21st... really looking forward to it, so far the response from the parents has been fantastic and think the lads are looking forward to it. Something a bit different for the kids and a break from the normal coaching which will be great for them i'm sure.

I had a coffee meeting with the new DO a few months ago which ended up lasting nearly 2 hours as we chatted about all sorts... she is really enthusiastic about what is happening and what the plans will be to develop schools, clubs, the womens game and the wheelchair game within the Eagles. I came away massively enthused by the plans and, got to say, quite excited about the future. I am hoping to get them to do a couple of sessions at my boys RU club as they can teach union players a lot in terms of defence and ball handling but also it helps cement the knowledge of them to the kids and there is rugby to go an watch on the doorstep. Its down to my inability to pull my finger out due to work being hectic that I havent got anything arranged (and we are now into matches on the weekend!). IF (and its a big IF) Eagles can get this up and running then i can see a really nice club coming together that can start to move the game (in all its aspects) forward in the city.

To describe an area like the New Forest as one of natural beauty is, at best, misleading. The distinctive nature of the forest is, to a significant degree, down to how man has interacted with the landscape. (as an aside, I would probably make this point about many national parks and so called areas of outstanding natural beauty) The calendar of human activity in the New Forest helps to mark the passage of the year for the casual observer. Autumn means at least two things in this context. First, it is the pannage season. 'Pannage' is one of the common law rights of the forest which those commoners, allowed by virtue of the property in which they live to exercise it, can do so, if they wish. It is the right to turn out to roam (the technical, New Forest term is 'depasture') pigs in the autumn. The start and finish dates for pannage are set each year and in 2021 they are from 13th September to 14th November. The reason why pigs are depastured is to eat the acorn crop. The pigs love them and thrive on them; by contrast, if eaten to excess, acorns can kill ponies. This year, the acorn crop appears to have been abysmal and I have only seen one group of pigs roaming free in the forest; they were at Eyeworth. The other activity is rounding up the ponies which, contrary to popular belief, are not wild, but owned by commoners. The New Forest term for a round-up is a 'drift', though temporary road signs warn motorists of a 'pony round-up in progress'. I have chanced on one in action a few times over the years; it is spectacular to see, as the more able horsemen among the commoners ride on horseback to corale the ponies to the predetermined collection point. This is not a full proof process, as some don't get rounded up. At the collection point, the agisters will be present; these are the forest officials responsible for the health and welfare of animals. They will check which mares have foals with them and add the latter to the register. The ponies' health will be checked and remedial action, if needed, will be taken (e.g. hoof trimming). The ponies used to be branded, and possibly still are. Perhaps most intriguingly, their tails will be trimmed at the bottom and on the sides, to a distinctive, coded stepped pattern which indicates to which part of the forest they belong. Soon, there will be pony sales, for instance adjacent to Beaulieu Road Station, and for some ponies it will be the end of their time in the forest. I knew there was a drift taking place the other week in the part of the forest nearest where I live as the car park I use almost daily as the start of the daily dog walk for Mrs WWD was, according to a sign, closed for a day to enable 'livestock management'. Oh dear, management-speak comes to the Forestry Commission; what's wrong with 'drift' or, if that seems too obscure, 'pony round-up'?

IMO your board rolled the dice, failed the rent and spent on the team to stay up again knowing Leigh would be the only team to finish above