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Have to share a really proud update. Two of my lads make their Origin debuts on Sunday. Just spoken with the two of them now and they are really looking forward to the challenge facing them of a rep game against players who have been playing for many years when they have so little experience. i reminded them how tough they have found things and then dealt with everything thats been thrown at them and will continue to do so. These kind of lads are the future of not just London RL but RL in this country. Hats off to them.

It's always good to have a testimonial for a player where you spell his name wrong and the first thing said was "never a great player"

"Worzel was a person, he was adequate at stuff he did, but he Didnt do much. Was an ok bloke, I suppose. Rest in Peace"

Thoughts and prayers for Feldt after that horror tackle.

I'd have Oli Field starting centre in Super League without hesitation

I wouldn't want John to do the eulogy at my funeral, that's for sure

No, I don't need to disqualify him, as if he's some shoe-in we just need to reference. You need to qualify him. That's my entire point Martyn. This is an important role, far too important to just be given to someone we happen to know, on the criteria that they "have knowledge of rugby league" and won't wilt under the media lights. That's madness. His career is: - Rugby league player - Rugby league union administrator (very small scale) - Ran a rugby league club for 3 years, 20 years ago - Done some small-scale property development, and nebulous gravy train "consulting" roles since That's it. That's the sum total of it all. I appreciate he may talk well, people may like him, and that may well be better than several other people in West Yorkshire. But I could find you 50 "rugby league people" who fit that description, without much difficulty. If we are a serious sport, with serious goals, we should recuit professionally and appoint a highly competent, ambitious, credible person who will bring something new to the sport. This stuff isn't hard... unless you make it hard by not bothering in the first place of course.

Give over

On a similar note another Fev one-year player has retired in Martyn Ridyard, he was one of my favourite players to watch. He had areas of weakness in his game (not the biggest, strongest or fastest or the best defender), but in my opinion he was without peer at Championship level in the last 15 years in terms of setting up passing movements and sucking in defences. Of course he was usually playing against us but in that one year at Fev it was no coincidence that Luke Briscoe broke the consecutive try-scoring record and Tom Holmes had probably his best-ever season as a half back, because it was Ridyard's ability to hold defenders in the centre of the field that created so much space down that right hand side, our attacking shape was good that year and it was largely down to Ridyard.

To be honest that's more than I've earned

other sports are more serious about minimum standards though

It’s people like you who are the backbone of our game, the unsung heroes who give their time and effort for no reward other than the pride you are showing now, it makes it all worthwhile.

Well that was a waste of a thread

A worldwide search will be conducted I'm sure..

Hanley putting in a hell of a shift.

Saints in as the ultimate warrior crashes over!

Not sure what Wells is on about, Ipape lined up Clark's head and Clark only just parried it in time.

BIA Beard injury assessment.

Christ, that's Harry Smith-esque.

Oh dear feldt

Feldt pole axed!

For me he is one of the most improved players this season, he has a long future ahead of him , hopefully at the Knights in Super League.

Kris? I never knew he was still going. Fair play to him.

The biggest mistake the game made was in not appointing Sally Bolton as CEO in 2018 when she was interested in coming back, instead we got Wreck It Ralph and here we are.

This sort of parochial West Yorkshire nonsense has to stop. Martyn needs to look further than the end of his nose, or at least Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds. Where's the evidence that Ekoku is even vaguely suitable for the task ahead? The bloke's business career amounts to the sum total of nothing, nada, zero, zilch, diddly squat. This stuff is just embarrasingly small-time, "local town for local people" reductive ridiculousness. Some stakeholders in our sport are so limited in their thinking, and indeed experience of the world and benchmarks of what good looks like, that it's really embarrasing. Advertise the role, in fact more sensibly search for and headhunt the right candidates with the right experience. Rugby league lacks money but as we know from Wood's own pay-off, we don't seem shy at spending it on a Chief Exec so we can at least afford a good class one of those. And no, it doesn't need to be a "rugby league person", sports and sports business experience yes, but if anything the last thing we need is yet another muppet from the same ecosystem (unless we can get Radlinksi or Lakin of course, in which case I'm all in... but neither of them are daft enough to take it) On Sutton, he's the classic rugby league exec archetype: Mediocre finance manager in a regional organisation, but in a small business so has been given the unearned "finance director" job title, and then when the current exec leader leaves we appoint the "FD" (remember, not really even an FD) into the Chief Exec's role. Just like we did with Wood in the first place. I mean, all that Big Nige was - before he managed to latch onto the milky rugby league teet and drink all he could from it - was an assistant regional finance director for the BBC. Back in the days when the BBC didn't have much back office devolved to the regions. I've probably got a couple of people like that in my own firm. Great to have them on the team, they do important work, I'm sure the people they went to school with think they've done well in life, but I wouldn't let them anywhere near the steering wheel. But here? We let the man with the abacus run the whole show. Madness-on-a-stick. Just saying

15,100 at Leeds. Thats outstanding on a Thursday night when it has been an awful afternoon weather wise.

https://www.yorkrlfc.com/post/york-rlfc-announces-plans-for-centre-of-excellence?fbclid=IwY2xjawMxDz1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBqTmxvQzFTV2RZNzF1ZEQwAR6Sal897Scz7t_V7xCqOf7zOrIpw1hRI_XrW_grZBqZZr2dYPGd5NKniDsD8A_aem_2gSyAZi8U-zZsOgHt1k_dw

Yeah, Clark is pretty lucky he was protecting himself like that or it would have been a nasty one

Flinching is a bit different to lying on the floor feeling for some pretend blood.

Thats lucky Clark got his arm up.

As a saints fan very glad to see Fekdt sin binned and would have been happy to see a red. Not bothered if we don’t see him in the red vee again. Pathetic. Genuine question, why wasn’t that a penalty for Leigh?

Feldt you absolute cheat

Embarrassing that from Feldt, glad we have the green card for those situations.

Played every game this season. Game 450 on Sunday, if selected.

For starters: - Took over a RFL that was struggling financially and transformed it. - Improved governance of the sport and secured record Sport England funding - Strengthened the international game with tournaments like the Tri Nations taking off. Backed the 2008 RLWC in Australia, after the 2000 disaster, and put the foundations in place for RLWC2013. - Introduced franchising which allowed clubs to grow and succeed. 15 odd years later we repeated that for slow learners. - Admitted Catalans to SL and gave them 3 years grace to ensure they succeeded. - Added Toulouse to the English system to further strengthen and develop the game in France. - Oversaw great expansion of the game at community level nationwide. - Didn't pander to heartland clubs and, presumably by your stance when it comes to him, heartland journalists and did what was right to grow RL in the UK.

Liam has come on leaps and bounds this season and at 28 has got plenty of years left as a halfback , great resigning.

imagine all the current squad going full time, training 5 days a week, all bulking up and building up stamina etc. The way we are playing that team would be unstoppable all full time.

I think perception matters, and that takes time to embed. The perception of SL and RL in general needs to be more than just the M62 otherwise its peanuts TV deals inbound.

Excellent work in introducing more to the joys (& despairs) of the greatest sport played in the city...although to be completely fair to your convert wanting a season ticket for 2026, you might want to warn him that winning 16+ games on the trot doesn't happen every year! This will be true in 2026, regardless of whether we are in Super duper league or the new Championship/League 1 mash up. (I have been watching York for a long time now so am, by default, a pessimist)

I think if @The Hallucinating Goose was rude enough not have been an RL fan back then, we should dig out the videos of all the games from the tournament and make him watch the lot. I'd even sponsor it.

Yep we get offered them every week. Mate lives on one of streets around ground and as been 5 games this season free as people knock on is door offering tickets for family's.

The World according to Compo Clegg and Foggy...

You've got half a million on the doorstep counting just Merton and Wandsworth. There are a lot of families in there who will be looking for a decent afternoon for their kids, and a lot of young lads looking for a fun afternoon where they can bang a drum. Those must be the two cheapest markets to reach and would be probably the most sustainable. Not saying don't do anything else or only do one thing at a time but anything that doesn't start with the above is going to be harder work. Also, this is based on staying at AFC Wimbledon. I don't think it's the place anyone should have picked but it's where the Broncos are now.

Good ticket sales from York:

The thing about marketing & customer retention is that the basic tenents remain the same, even though the channels change. When i first encountered the London Broncos, they operated out of a port-a-cabin office at the stoop. I was a communications specialist who was also promoting email as a potential future tool (god i am old).....the response then (1999?) was "we dont have amy money for marketing"..... Fast forward to 2009 and the year I left for NZ. Before I went, i sent DH an email and said I would fill 2 away coaches with PAYING customers. I made it clear that I was off and I just wanted to show what could be done with perseverence. 2 coaches filled. Wales and Wakefield...and I did that using forums, email, social media and badgering people at games. One kid actually "borrowed" his dads debit card to get on a bus..... .....fast forward another 16 years and although the channels have changed somewhat, the base camp of passion and hard work remain. I posted somewhere else back in 2009 about local awareness and using players and cheerleaders to sell the game locally in pubs on a Friday Night....as well as paying a 50% commission on ticket sales to local schools and clubs and also having a HUGE FRAMED fixtures poster up in every pub within 5 miles with a dozen free tickets fornevery game given out to eash pub. All that costs little if anything.....just Hard Work and Passion.... Let's see what happens next. METRO and The Standard have been done and failed, City FM seem keen......but we need a media tie in #1 off the rank. A customer is a customer until they buy what you're selling for the 7th time.....them they become "your client". We used to have 4,000 clients.....let's see if we can get them back before chasing ANZACS

We do definitely benefit from our proximity to the North West of England and our players have come from semi-pro and amateur teams across the region. The new owners have been proactive in setting up a reserves team and they've already signed the first player to come through from that team. Lets hope that continues and we discover and develop players locally. Wales RL has no funding for developing players; one of our coaching staff is involved in coaching the Dragonhearts and they basically have to self fund to play in competitions. I doubt the Senedd has even registered that North Wales has a semi-pro rugby league team let alone a relatively successful one.