JohnM

Indeed. And I've just seen their new new brand : "Ultimate Rugby League." ABG revenue 2021 , $22. billion.

Really? Authentic Brands Group LLC (ABG) is an American brand management company headquartered in New York City. Its holdings include various apparel, athletics, and entertainment brands, which it partners with other companies to license and merchandise. So Leigh is an ABG brand?

Ask at your pharmacy for "Ultimate Rugby League."

Enhanced, tweaked...Evolved is maybe a better word. The fact that Leigh, Hull KR, Oldham, maybe Bradford even, are on the same track as IMG is to be welcomed. The IMG proposals, formally agreed and adopted by the sport as a whole, are not "big bang" proposals where at IMG day 0 there was nothing and at IMG day 1 it was all there, set in concrete designed to endure for all of eternity. The proposals were based on things like, well, let's see now...both focussed and cross-disciplinary knowledge, experience, benchmarking, research, consultation, Hegelian dialectics, proven track-record, and dare I mention it in the same breath as Rugby League....long termism. Perhaps there are other reasons for opposing the RFLs "Re-imagining Rugby League" 12 year project in this age of demagogic populism.

Roy Haynes, drummer, aged 99, died 12th Nov. Lou Donaldson, alto saxophonist, aged 98, died 9th Nov. Retrospective on last Sunday's Jazz Record Requests.

My last line is NOTHING compared to some of the guff some of the critics have posted, though.

If we want our sport to be successful, we need to present the media with something worth printing/broadcasting/streaming to a mass readership/audience and spectators. By requiring all clubs to address the realities of the 21st century, we are slowly but surely, as part of the "Re-imagining Rugby League" initiative, making our clubs, stadiums, etc more appealing to broadcasters and to newbie spectators. Get the grading system up and running, get clubs to improve their gradings, and after a few years, start to evolve things as we make progress. Jumpers for goalposts, string for try-lines and oranges at half time no longer hack it... Evolve or endure a slow, lingering death...

Better safe than sorry. Clearly sensitive and possibly actionable.

I don't think Saints or England are getting the best out of Welsby at fullback, or maybe its the way he's not supported by the other backs when bringing the ball away from the line. So yes, even as a Wigan fan, I'd like to see him more involved , more often, so transition to stand-off might be good.

"Although we support IMG ..." It certainly sounds like it, doesn't it. "We believe that on the field should be a lot more.” " in England promotion and relegation is in our DNA,”

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You can't beat a flight on an unpressurized Short 360 in a howling gale. Hence the name "Vomit Comet"

And will forever kill off the the ideas that the game is only played on the M62 corridor..... ...by including the M60!

Quite so. I'm not familiar with the podcasts and YouTube channel you mention and feel that podcast etc that promote/involve our sport, may just secure current fans and attract lapsed fans. To get new ones, it may be that guerrilla marketing has some sort role, where we pop up in the least expected places, may be advertising or featuring in or being endorsed in and by the channels and podcasts from other sports. In any case, we have to up our own game when in comes to turning matches into events.

Oh look. Different sport - same issue over long term damage. How can anyone defend those in our sport who claim "they know the risks when they play" or similar. ALL clubs plus the sport itself have to reflect. Yes it's football, but even if our sport is 100 times less risky, it's still an issue and it would be nice to hear some acknowledgement from Aston and his supporters. https://headsafefootball.org.uk/ https://nrtimes.co.uk/football-heading-damages-brain-regions-affected-in-cte-study-finds/ https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/world-changingresearch/issportheadingintherightdirection/