Archie Gordon

That's for the one they are already in!

There's been a fair bit of talk about Fulham for big games without any indication that Fulham is interested or even whether they've been approached.

That would certainly make the Giants vs Giants Reserves fixture into an interesting Championship derby game.

We'll know by the end of May.

Watching Wakefield-Leeds last night felt like almost everything was delivered at a level of high quality - contest, players, officials, ground, crowd, pitch, lighting, and so on. As it should be. The absolute crime for me is that all throughout the RFL pyramid we have standards in place to deliver quality appropriate to the level but they are almost always watered down when they come into contact with reality. Clubs have dispensations for everything, penalties aren't imposed, standards become aspirations - all this happens right down from SL to the National Leagues. The move to a 14 club SL has just been another example of this. That's why it hasn't worked (and won't work) for either SL or the Championship. As with everything the RFL gets involved in, it is only held together because of compromises, fixes, blind eyes turned. It's not independent governance (though that would help) that our game needs but some leadership that is prepared to put quality at the heart of everything it delivers and to not accept near misses, almost theres, it'll be alright on the night, give us a break, we're working towards it, or it's just a one off at every level of the game.

Spot on.

Missing a closed bracket. I can't get past that, I'm afraid.

This is it. There's a disconnect between the BBC Sport that picked up the rights and the BBC Sport that delivers the content. But nor is RLC blameless. The next terrestrial deal must be a lot better and not necessarily with the BBC.

2014 is definitely wrong. The Hive gates were really dreadful. 2024 at AFCW also included loads of gates ending in *000 for the second half of the season so I wouldn't put much faith in them. A (real) 5000 average would be absolutely astonishing and something not seen this century which is why I share GJ's view that the club won't simply land there just because it's SL. But I do think it's possible. Like you, I think it's easier done at the Stoop.

It also advertises the fact to any potential partner that our properties are cheap and not in demand. And it also shows the folly of making everything about the men's SL. The secondary properties - even the national teams - are now BOGOF or worse.

And Keighley would win their opening game and we'd get people asking when will know a 34-team SL is working.

Another FRA-ENG fixture that no longer happens. Crazy.

There seem to be lots of examples of sporting teams in and around London building attendances from 500 to 1.5k to 3k, etc. There was talk earlier in the year of the Broncos engaging with people who had had success in this area. So it can and has been done. I don't think AFCW helps much. If the Broncos are still in the Champo next year, they need to focus very hard on the flow of the season - where/when/why games are played (please not Thursday night!) - and they really do need one 'event' game per month backed by £££. Tbh, if they are in SL, the same is true - going missing from May to July has been a disaster.

I'm fine, thanks. I don't support the club but I am (in a wider sense) a stakeholder and I would absolutely love for them to become a SL force. I just don't believe that they are any closer to understanding how to build a membership than they were 12 months ago and I genuinely despair when GW comes out with the part-victim and part-fantasy stuff because it's *exactly* what DH used to say.

I've never been the gospel according to Broncos. They've mostly always been an oddly run outfit. I don't support them either and haven't for quite a while. Not really getting why I'm upsetting you so much. We just see this very differently.