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Not in Cornwall it doesn’t. Cornwall still gets it from the brewery in Rock (as does Devon) - everyone else gets Doom Bar from Burton on Trent…

“Merry Christmas one and all”

Ray Illingworth. Yorkshireman. Top bloke

Nigel Farage's favourite beer. Excellent.

High hops for this partnership

This is me nodding approvingly.

Or, more appropriately given his family history, Swinton.

Think it's still a lottery at the moment. Not checked latest odds. Searle has been alot of people's dark horse. Just seen Cullen. Can't see him doing it. Wade 83 average. I'm sure he'll improve. Think King could win his section.

Can you fly there direct from Keighley though? They can’t be expected to travel all the way to Leeds/Bradford airport.

The argument here seems to be top-down vs bottom-up development. When in reality the optimal way to develop is an all-encompassing strategy, with a progressive professional club, underpinned by strong grassroots development - see Newcastle Thunder. The issue is that the money rarely stretches that far to be able to properly do justice to all areas

You've made a classic error, you've described a city as having "zero interest" in the sport when they got crowds of up to 9,000 in the second tier, about 10 times or more of the attendance of several other teams in that tier, and a better average crowd than at least half of super League, despite only being in tier 2. Presumably you think that all championship teams and half of super league have "zero interest" since they get less people in than Toronto managed.

I think the Oxford ‘project’ would have been part of this as I believe all you say was around 2012 onwards, joining L1 the next year. They would have been part of this strategy. https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/docs/RFL-Rugby League Strategic Plan 2014-2021.pdf Then should have been part of this, below, after the merger, which was issued after the 2018 RFL ‘ mid term ‘review’. https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/docs/RFL STRATEGY EXTERNAL.pdf These ‘Strategic plans’ have never given enough information, of refer to, on how goals are actually achieved or long term strategy is prepared or even delivered. It would have been better, if the conclusions (I think at least 1 was) were made public as well. This detail isn’t wholly available to us mere mortals afaik. Transparency? It just goes to show, especially given the current status in the game between RFL and SL, there isn’t enough money allocated or a detailed, long term plan for development. This is why, in another thread, I mentioned that development areas need to be discussed down to the fine details necessary, to identify the essential requirements and resources needed for a strategy and key, achievable benchmarks and monitoring processes.

I got you fam...

Where's the tribute