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This definitely cements their place as the best stadium in the country. Hopefully there's mortar come.

https://wrl.wales/south-wales-leagues-to-kick-off-on-june-1 Bristol invited as well.

I can see the reasoning behind this to be fair. He has more points than Hull FC right now.

Just started training for my U16s team that I coach in south Wales. Was pleased to have a delivery of balls and cones earlier this week part funded by the WRL. Here’s to a successful season.

If we finish bottom, we should be relegated. I've no idea how we have managed to get this bad in such a short period of time, but it should be punished. Well done, London. By far the better team, with the most enthusiasm and weren't afraid to chuck it around. Hull clueless in attack and taking too many shortcuts in defence. A lazy and uninspired performance.

Comments like this really wind me up . We are behind them , we go to watch them play Cornwall and Midlands , and we’re a dwindling minority . You also need to tell it as you see it honestly or it’s not gonna be much of a forum

𝗦𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦! IT'S TOWN FOR A FIVER 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 £𝟱! 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 & 𝙏𝙊 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙇𝙊𝘾𝘼𝙇 𝙏𝙀𝘼𝙈! Kind hearted Ryan from Northern Competitions met with us this week and wants to make our next home game v Hunslet RLFC affordable for all! He had such a good day when we played Cornwall he’s helping to subsidise the reduced admission cost as we aim to pack the Fibrus Community Stadium and help more people enjoy matchday at TOWN. A full day of entertainment is planned including Maryport Amateur Rugby League Club takeover day and loads of pre match young RL talent on show! Hit the Crossbar challenge at half time! Live Music and a whole day of fun as we aim to have a great crowd for what will be a crucial game in League 1! Food / bars all open all day! 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 - 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗗! 𝟱𝟬𝟬 - £𝟱 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 - Monday the 13th May - 𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗿𝗹𝗳𝗰.𝗰𝗼𝗺 And that's not all! Smell the money! Everyone who buys a ticket for the game will also go into a draw for £500 to be in the Northern Competitions Fanzone after the game!* THANK YOU RYAN HEART OF GOLD T&Cs apply! Everyone

Warrington are getting good enough to really dislike them again.

Suppose he'll be able to get the train to work now.

This has now gone too far

Great news for Wakey, I just had a sneaking feeling we may have been interested. Looks like Myler is mopping up all the free journeymen and Hasbeens, I am getting to quite like the bloke

So, you've got the women and men of Huddersfield and Wigan playing on Saturday, so far, so simple. To watch both games, you have to buy seperate tickets and leave the stadium between games. Do they want it to be a failure? https://giantsrl.com/article/8866/wigan-warriors-double-header-tickets-on-sale

As I always say in this debate I am also very wary to just leave what has been a pretty fantastic partner for Rugby League for nearly 40 years. That's not to be dismissed lightly. Old Trafford have always accommodated Rugby League when we've needed it and have even prioritised the sport over an RU World Cup. In contrast many of the other major Football grounds in the North, bar Elland Road which is even older and smaller, have shown a reluctance to hold Rugby League at various times, including the likes of the Etihad and Anfield. We could easily go elsewhere then that ground may not be interested after a couple of years then what.

Probably not, but if London win next week, that probably won't make the national news though. Now if London finish above Hull at the end of the season, but get demoted and Hull survive that might make the national news

That is outstanding by all involved and hopefully all fans by into this and get a massive numbers through the gate the club is moving in the right direction new signings and offers like this is unreal for our club so let's all buy into what the clubs doing

We seem to do this question several times a season. For the prosecution: It's falling to bits The pitch is too short and the in-goals are dangerous as a result For the defence: No-one can come up with a venue of similar size in the North Now what?

Its a brilliant day out especially if you are lucky enough to see your team win which Wakey should do.

Delighted for London, was hoping that they wouldn't remain winless this season.

Do you have a sense of humour or has watching Leeds too often fried your brain of any fun?

If only IMG hadn't ensured Hull FC remained in Super League for next year the relegation battle may have been interesting.

This take is fantasy. Maybe I could be more polite but your rubbishing of the RFL people on the ground working in the Southern regions is miles off. There are some outstanding RFL staff who respond to messages at all hours and show up on evenings and weekends - the issue is the lack of £££ they have available.

Zak Hardaker from Wigan. I miss the jeapody.

Paul Sculthorpe leaving Warrington to Saints. A generational player: we needed the money at the time but that didn't make it any nicer seeing him go on to achieve his potential with a local rival.

He’s certainly got madness in his method.

Other than the first 15 minutes which were shambolic by both teams I thought it was a greatly entertaining game. London play some lovely off the cuff stuff, no 1 man in, percentage, gameplan garbage. Watching Maloudi alone is worth the money as we have no idea what hes going to do next, and neither does he.

No disrespect to Hull, but pleased for London and their fans. Tough assignment but they have worked hard all season despite their lack of quality. And their fans deserve an afternoon like that.

Sounds like a last minute winner for the Choughs!! Well done Cornwall, great result

Wales rugby league legend Jim Mills tweets: Great News - the Cardiff Bay Rugby Codebreakers statue of Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan and Gus Risman has won the ‘Celebrating Black Sporting Heritage Award’ category at the Sporting Heritage Awards last night.

Finally, some news out of Western Australia: 'Ticks every box': Why Perth deserves an NRL team | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT "Western Australia is ready for a Perth-based stand-alone NRL team and all that is needed now is clear direction from the game's hierarchy about establishing it in an expanded competition. "That is the view of Peter Cumins, chairman of a Perth consortium working with the WA government to realise their goal. "Cumins, also deputy chairman of Cash Converters, told AAP that Perth had the corporate backing, facilities and public support to ensure an NRL franchise on the west coast would be a success. "All we need now is to have some very clear direction from the NRL and be invited to make an application, which we think would be successful, and then we will come along full steam," Cumins said. "We do have a very strong group of people, with money, where we would also be in a strong position to fund a successful team. "I have been involved with this for 15 years, and the reason we haven't gone into full PR mode is because we can't afford another false start." "Cumins was managing director of Cash Converters when the business was the major sponsor of the Western Reds. "Cumins and his consortium are liaising with a working group, appointed by the WA government, that has held discussions with the NRL and ARL Commission. "They have had discussions with (ARLC chairman) Peter V'landys and with Newtown and the North Sydney Bears (as possible partners), but my view is that we want a stand-alone Perth-based team and something that West Australians can get behind," Cumins said. "It ticks every box." "Cumins, whose parents came from Hull and were rusted-on league fans, played more than 300 first-grade games for the Fremantle Roosters and represented his state side. No one understands the landscape of rugby league in the west like he does. "The numbers all stack up because, unlike another team into Sydney, we would be a one-team town," he said. "Western Australia now has a population heading towards three million, and is one of the richest states in Australia with gas, gold and iron ore, so there is a lot of corporate money available." Bring it on.

I don't think there's realistically anything you could do now to revive RL in London, no matter how much money spent. The Broncos are a dead donkey, having been slowly killed over many years. The people who used to support the club are gone and they aren't coming back, they've been gone too long now. Could you replace them? No, not in my opinion. Cities like London always have a demographic churn, it's the nature of the place, but the changes seen in the last 10-15 years have been astronomical and I think you'd struggle to find more than a couple of thousand people here who even know Rugby League exists. Sure, quite a lot of people have heard of 'rugby', but all they know is there's an England team that plays out in Twickenham and occasionally plays in word cups on the telly. They've also heard of the All Blacks. Beyond that, they have no interest in it at all, and that's a sport that does get national reach. Expecting them to know about RL, a sport with no real presence in London or the media, is like expecting someone in Latvia to know about it. It's just completely alien. Meanwhile, there's another thread on here detailing the community game in London and, from reading that, it looks smaller than it's been in 20 years. So if you wanted to do anything here, you'd essentially be starting from scratch. You'd have to fund a dozen development officers, for a decade at least. You'd have to fund a professional club - not just a team on the field, but club as a whole - for the same period of time. You'd have to find a home to play out of, and stay there permanently without falling out with the owners, which is something the club has never managed in its history. And you'd have to get pretty much every decision right over that time, day in day out, week after week, for a decade. Make any significant mistakes and you undo any successes. On top of that, the ongoing churn of people coming here for a few years and then moving on means you'd also have to be committed to an ongoing cycle of finding new players and fans to replace the ones who leave. And doing all of that in a media environment that thinks you're irrelevant. Not only would it cost an absolute fortune, but it would require a level of expertise - and luck - that none of us have ever seen. To transplant an alien sport to a city with a transient population and a million competing entertainment options...nah, sorry, I don't think it's possible. It might have been, at the dawn of SL and the move to summer, but that's many years and many failures ago now.

Are you a scout for Hull FC?

I enjoy watching Rugby League enough to put up with that drum. But it is close.

Dagger has received a one match ban for foul & abusive language from Sunday. The club needs to get a grip of this, we've let one of the the best full backs we've ever had leave and replaced him with a player who can't behave himself and gets banned for dumb reactions when things aren't going his way. Embarrassing.

Broncos win Myler sacked

If a player has been allowed to play on for over 20 minutes with a broken jaw after receiving treatment and without leaving the field under the current HIA that's mind boggling.

As you know Im a huge fan of womens rugby but I would tend to agree in this instance. The game is in the early stages of its development but is growing in popularity at a rapid rate but £15 to watch a team that quite frankly has been a total disappointment this season does seem steep and it almost feels like they are trying to cash in on Wigan maybe bringing a few fans who would want to watch both games. For a family of 4 without a season ticket it is going to cost them nearly £100 to watch 2 games of rugby. I am not sure what planet Huddersfield are on thinking that is feasable especially in what they are calling their inclusive round.

It does rather miss out quite a bit of the narrative. International RL is a tough sell, and when the biggest and richest RL nation in the world consistently undermines it, you get to the point where you have to question the motives. Four perfect recent examples. 1. Successful Four Nations concept scrapped, not replaced by a 6 or 8 team tournaments which was mean to be the plan. 2. The sh** show that was the Denver Test. As above, RL is a tough sell anyway without internal sabotage. 3. The postponement of the RLWC in 2021 and the associated costs that created. I have some sympathy with them on this one, but when other international sports were working out how to make it work, we just walked away. 4. The recent criticism of the England's staging of the Tonga series, saying we need to do better (a valid point), but it was distracting from the car crash of the Pacific Final that they'd just held in NZ in front of a smaller crowd than that in Leeds. I was one of the biggest critics of the RLWC last time, but we have regularly pulled in crowds that the biggest RL nation in the world can only dream of.

15 quid to watch Valkyrie v Leeds followed by Knights v Sheffield at York on Sunday. You don't have to leave the stadium* in between games, although a lovely new lounge bar and grill has opened up next door... *Some York fans might actually want to!

Its a simple case that the one moment in time (early to mid 2000s) where there seemed to be a plan it started to work, there was money put into it and there was a plan around where that money was invested. At that time IIRC there were more amateur teams playing at more age grades etc. There is no getting away from the fact that money will make or break it. There needs to be a proper plan designed around a proper long term, "none negotiable" strategy that everyone buys into (I say none negotiable as in doesn't change all the time like most RL things, and that any change made is for a very very good reason ie speed up becuase its really working etc). ANY expansion is done with money and they need success too.. even then you will be deficit financing for a number of years and the RFL/IMG/SL need to be prepared for that. Therefore it needs a good reason behind it and not just "we need a team in the capital" as I don't think that is necessarily true.. if it can add value then great.. if it doesn't then you take exactly what I have said above and you apply it to an expansion area that would add value.. (wales, midlands etc) becuase the same will apply anywhere.. Adhoc pins in maps and hoping for either a benefactor or an amateur standard club to step up to the pro ranks is not going to work. Its not rocketry and its how any business grows, strategy and planning (and money).. take any of those away and what, frankly, do we expect to happen? If you fail to plan etc etc etc

The London match made the BBC 10 o'clock news

While I think this goes too far, there are a few strange scenarios where time wasting is allowed or even actively encouraged: - Drop outs - While it is good we have a stop clock here, the match clock should be stopped as soon as the attacking/receiving side are all onside and ready to receive the ball - Penalties - Nothing worse than everyone standing around for 60 seconds to run the time off the clock. No reason why the clock shouldn't be stopped as soon as the penalty is awarded and restarted when the ball is kicked.

I would pick 13 loose forwards and be the Great Britain coach in 2003.

It’s easy to support a winning team, true fans turn up no matter what, as hard as it might be sometimes!

London Broncos moving to Wimbledon and simultaneously going Semi-Pro killed Skolars imo sadly. The state of the game can't be judged on these clubs alone, but looking at them it isn't healthy.

Not in the sense of investment. Money has been spent on player wages.

Good tough win that, Hull KR threw plenty at us in the second half and we did OK.

Great win for the boys regardless of the quality of the opposition. Lots of strong performances and hopefully something to build off ... especially Walker who was near perfect with the boot. One thing I have noticed this season is, regardless of opposition, how poor our line speed is. I feel like the easiest way to take our team to the next level would be to improve our line speed and close down the opposition instead of letting them run or play. I cannot understand why we cannot do that as it is not dependent on individual quality just fitness and coaching.

A note on Williams, when he was at Haven he played his best stuff off the cuff, you may be right that the game plan is hindering him. I'd give him time and stick with him, he'll come good for you I'm sure

Never heard of any double headers where you had to buy 2 tickets & leave in between games and re-enter. I guess they are expecting a full house, so can't double sell seats .....