Anita Bath

Two more tries by Oldham players on loan in Hornets thrashing at Crusaders. Without them we would have been nilled. Can you send us another 11 please?

And better pasties!

Congrats to latics….what a tremendous play off run they put together. Sadly looks like no games with my nearest and dearest in either code next season. Rochdale replacing latics with Truro on their fixture list.

All clubs are experiencing the same challenge. Building crowds in a sustainable way with this stupid fixture list is impossible.

And scored a try on his return ‘home’.

from a financial point of view attendance and revenue would be less. Brisbane Roar already tried this by moving out to Redcliffe. Attendance dropped below 1000 for some games. Awful stadium for summer games….blazing sun ( or heavy thunderstorms) with very little cover. ANZ is an athletics stadium…..take your binoculars.

I dont think union and soccer would agree

And their are plenty of happy endings in Salford.

Wont be a national rugby league until there are clubs in all states like other sports have achieved. And falling back on a third brisbane team will risk overkill and need to address the stadium issue. There is no other rectangular stadium in brisbane suitable and that is already hosting four different professional sports teams plus representative games for both rugby codes and football as well as various concerts and shows.

Designed deliberately to achieve that outcome. A convoluted way of determining which championship club to cut adrift

What, Alex Murphy is interested now?

If league 1 teams are putting 70+ points on Newcastle what would teams in the top half of the championship score against them? I dont think a straightforward merger makes sense. Some rationalisation into one division but that might involve moving some teams into the amateur leagues.

Hope there is a decent crowd for Hornets…after Sunday they have 2 games in the next 41 days and 10 weeks before their next home game. Thats longer then the football close season. Strategic review please note.

The sentimentality comes from events that made their mark on history….white horse cup final, Matthews cup final, don fox watersplash final, alec murphys wink in 1971 cup final, 1966 world cup final, Man U euro cup final 1968, wigan v hull cup final ( sterlo v kenny) etc, post war austerity olympics. What are the outstanding memories of the new wembley…englands women winning the euros?

They spend half of the day in the bars.

No way…..not only playing but sat watching the game in temperatures in mid to high 30degrees is a health hazard. Attendances are at an all time high.

There is certainly no substitute for the twin towers. The history inextricably linked to the original that have no links to the current building.

Other than the ball it has no link to rugby league. replace the bowler with a flat cap maybe

Not sure fans, channel 9 and Foxtel would be happy about teams not being allowed to play the best players available to them (ie all those not selected for origin).

The batchelors mushy peas championship ….whats not to like about that

trying conditions indeed…as I posted on the Australian thread he was hospitalised for two days only being discharged on thursday morning before flying down to sydney. Nothing seems to knock him off his game. Great performance by dolphins who were without their fullback and hooker. Though Bulldogs had some folks missing through origin their spine was intact. Dolphins now beaten Storm, Panthers and Bulldogs handsomely and were robbed v Warriors last week by an almighty howler by referee.

Magnificent game from Herbie who was in hospital for last two days only leaving hospital Thursday morning and flying down to Sydney.

There were no teams from the south in the football league before the turn of the century so hard to say they targeted expansion in relation to rugby league/union. The football league developed from the industrialists of the north paying players to attract them from other areas/clubs, including scotland.

You are three points of top spot, 1 point out of 4th place and you are already writing the season off before half way. Talk about glass half empty….

Thats the one that went bust in the 1960s, the one that went bust a few years back and the current (re) incarnation?