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Good win, thought we kept our cool against Swinton's painfully obvious and dull spoiling tactics, despite 3 yellow cards. They did a good impression of a football team with the feigning of injury, going down at the slightest of touches and didn't really play any rugby. Hau was impressive today, he treated their 7 like an annoying ragdoll that kept getting in his way. Springer and Yei put great shifts in and I thought all the backs went well. Onwards and upwards!

Just announced that Ciaran Walker has signed a new 2 year deal.

Today's attendance 1337 well done everyone

What does Fartown become then?

Great result, great attendance

Off the field town are reaping the benefits of their community programmes, these initiatives take time but what they will achieve is a new generation of supporters. On field so pleased they have stuck to their guns and stayed away from duel reg and the like, things are looking a lot brighter than they have been for a long time

Over 1300 at Workington- well done to Workington with the crowd and the result.

Great performance today. Couldn't fault the effort from anyone. Hall in particular was excellent. Did the tough Carrie's a la Hardcastle. Hau came of age. Given the injuries to Bussey, Day and Josh he is now integral to our hope of SL. Credit to the management team for getting him here. What would our neighbours do for having him in their ranks. I'm told also that Junior is only 2 weeks away so good news there. Killer though needs resting after every 2 games. Plenty of cotton wool required. What a player.

Very enjoyable game and great to see the ground fuller than usual, well done. I'm gonna keep banging this drum..every time Marwood comes on we finish the game well and it's so good to have him back, to think him and Walker were allowed to leave last year. Well done whoever brought them back. The game had a bit of everything..hard running, strong tackling, skillful kicking, flying finishes in the corners and that try! At 20-12 they'd wrestled it back and looked dangerous but some good substitutions and a couple of moments of magic and it was game over. Some tough games coming up now Oldham, Dewsbury, N Wales away and Donny and Hunslet at home.

Some lovely tries today but switched off to let Rochdale back in it. Switched on again to finish in style. A really good crowd, well done to the club. Even though we have injuries it’s very good that we turned out a 17 with 15 Cumbrians, 16 if you count our adopted Cumbrian in buffer, and haven’t gone down the dr route but stuck with the squad we put together for the season. We’ll need to strengthen for sure, but some of these young lads look impressive. Hope the 2 Rochdale lads aren’t too badly hurt.

Well played lads, great atmosphere and there seems to be a buzz about the place which has been missing for a number of years

The NSWRL was the premier comp in Australia despite what an old angry man from Leigh says & is the precursor to the NRL,that’s why clubs are credited with premierships going back to its inception. The Brisbane comp was pretty successful in its own right but with the birth of the Broncos it sadly faded away,although the Qld Cup is a pretty successful comp these days.

Hope RFL never expands to Scunthorpe then.

I agree it should be the IRL or the nations involved organising these games. Are the NRL allowing this though? The IRL are hampered and hamstrung at every turn and the NRL waste no opportunity to put every other RL body in their place, whether that is the IRL, a World Cup, the RFL and NZRL over mid season tests or arranging NRL internationals for Tonga without asking them and preventing them from arranging their own own. It is the NRL that benefit from the international games it organises. It is the NRL that sells them as part of its TV deal and benefits from sponsorship, government funding, any grants and ticket sales. It is the NRL that furthers its brand and solidifies its stranglehold on the international game through doing this. The NRL being the ones to pay the players, after receiving all the benefits, is just another form of control.

I think the crowd was 12,385 at Warrington which is about 1,900 more than last season. Well done wire.

Not when its in the NRL's interests to do so. They belatedly see the international game as helping them grow the sport in Australia, but its in their interests to have competitive opponents. It's closer matches that generate interest. Makes perfect sense for the NRL to level the pay playing field to help Tonga and Samoa have stronger sides. It helps grow the NRL.

Great day,the club looking to the future, in Henson ,Bradley, walker and marwood were building something

Great crowd considering what was on TV , UTT.

We need to forget about the season so far Our season is now 4 games long 2 at home, 2 away We need to reset, take stock, focus Cut out silly penalties, total control the set of 6 after scoring, bully teams, build pressure rather than trying to score off every play, line defence needs to be rock solid We've to lose the swagger of "simply turn and win" and "if you score 4 we will score 5" Away games need the same intensity as home games, relentless, unforgiving, turn the screw on the opposition, and grind them down. Force mistakes, force errors, capitalise when given easy possession, beat NWC & Hunslet and we're almost over the line, these 2 games will be very difficult, we snooze, we lose... 4 games that's all We've not lived up to expectations away this season and I'm sure the coaching team would agree with that.. 320 minutes of lean,mean, killing machine needed COME ON RAMS

Good result, but what was excellent to see was all the new faces watching. The work going on behind the scenes is just starting to reap rewards. Well done to those who are putting it together

What because Bradford are ………… still 5th but behind Sheffield instead of Fax?

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Let’s hope the issues get sorted,International RL can’t afford to take any more hits.

Or Penistone.

Are these the same players who benefit from the Sky NZ $14 million per year broadcast money ?

The contempt you have for players asking for a share of the money their work creates is quite remarkable.

Cat.... alan's.....just a stab In the dark but maybe how its referred to when you shorten the Catalans name?

Totally agree but Aekins is as good as you get in terms of utility. Whether he makes 1 to 6 when everyone is fit is debatable but because you lose very little when he plays, and often gain, he's pretty invaluable to the team. He's been another astute signing.

I've run the figures on Leeds and they are coming out at 17.610 using present league position/attendances to date and some informed assumptions. There are lots of things that strike me from running through this absurd process in a bit of detail but for now I'll stick to just two things from the document: 1. Leeds would get another 0.5 points if Paul Caddick wrote a cheque out for them for £500,000 as a long-term loan. Now this might actually have happened as the club is believed to have made another large loss in 2022 (accounts yet to be published) as the corporate events industry was slow to recover from Covid so he might actually have needed to put some cash in. But it makes no sense whatsoever that a club should be rewarded for taking on debt it doesn't need. 2. I think the document has an error in it. On page 9 it says website visits are worth 0.8 and social engagements 0.5 whilst on page 13 these scores are reversed.

They’d be a fair few from West Cumbria in the crowd,Wath Brow & Cockermouth played a U14s final as the curtain raiser & Whitehaven usually take a decent following to Newcastle.

There was the north east junior finals on before the match cup and plate for under 14s and 16s, a few looked to have stayed after that. Plus a strong travelling support from Whitehaven. Thunder are generally good at having something on before the match.

Its one of Whitehaven's closer away grounds/cities (and nicer ones once there) to travel to will have helped. Not sure if Newcastle had a promo or something on though for home fans.

The game went flat and didn't respark until Marwood came on, why he's left on the bench for so long really confuses me..

There's a vibe about the place I haven't felt for years total class, well done board

Worth noting that this innings saw Harry Brook hit his thousandth test run from just 1,058 balls - a world record in this format of cricket.

There's one city in that list in Melbourne that is expansion in Rugby League terms. The rest were all very strong Rugby League areas or certainly had a decent Rugby League heritage. There's few parallels with the game in this country unfortunately.

No it was NSW RL , and Queensland RL

Except it's not though is it. At least 3 missing. You could argue 4. And you're not still counting Coote are you? Just admit, you blew yourselves out in the first quarter of the season and now you look like what you are, a bottom half team.

NRL players from the Tonga and Samoa sides, so it’s no different to Australian players being paid from the NRL TV contract. The amount we’re discussing is chicken feed in the context of the TV deal, so in no way are the players foregoing pay.

Good luck today

They are. Somone's got some 'splainin to do.

that Rovers have absolutely no squad depth?

Following some very iffy head high calls SKD remi ds us whst a proper head shot looks like.

Rovers have 6 of the first team out, 2nd stringers and loan players on show. This is Hull FCs first choice side. I think we can draw the appropriate conclusions.

I thought the adverts on here were specific for each individual search history.

What kind of porn do you watch? I can't say any I've seen has involved Guinea Pigs.

If you know anything about the IRL you'd know this is completely out of their league. They are almost incapable of even the very basics.

Close matches all three - Broncos 22-6 against Toulouse, London side on the up may be get top 6 come the end The Dragons caught out like last year & this yr 26-14 now 14-22 Out at St Gaudens the English Academy won 33-20 against the French lads. The visitors needed a drop goal & a try in the last minute