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Enough full moon sightings to trigger werewolf attacks across most of West Yorkshire.

I can hear plenty of chanting and the cowbell, but it sounds very distant. Just a question of levels on the mixing board. The cowbell at Huddersfield is always a good gauge of the sound set-up. It's not nearly annoying enough today.

Just back from Sainsbury's with a bottle of Penderyn, a Welsh single malt that's probably closest to a Speyside in taste. The regular price was £40, but the Nectar price was £27. Nice!

BBC Radio Merseyside, according to https://www.rugbyleagueontv.com/radio

It is also, as has been said earlier, a more popular channel for younger audiences - potential new eyes on the product, which every sport needs. So there are pros as well as cons.

They won't be - the problem lies in the minds of the consumers, though. Just like the drop-off from BBC1 to BBC2, despite the latter having been around since 1964.

Is there a sporting season that the BBC broadcasts live matches from week in, week out (whether at the same time/on the same channel or not)? No. Even back in the days when the BBC had far more financial clout and attraction in the sports market, the norm was that Grandstand/Sunday Grandstand showed a variety of events every weekend, rather than the same things every time. Now BBC3 is a broadcast channel again, following a few years as a streaming service, the channel's accessibility (or lack of it) is mainly in the minds of the consumers.

I picked Saints in the poll, but genuinely don't know what to expect from Huddersfield this season.

The disciplinary panel report may give a little clarity on that. As would a press release from the game's administrators. Right now, people are pronouncing on it (from both sides), based on speculation.

World gone wild (1987) The Seven Samurai meets Mad Max, with Bruce Dern, Adam Ant (sounding like Nigel Tufnell, despite actually being from London himself), Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stuart, Julius J.Carry III (aka Sho’Nuff from The Last Dragon) and Anthony James. Water is the thing everyone seeks, rather than fuel, as Ant’s Manson Family-inspired cult wants to take the precious resource from Bruce Dern’s hippie colony. Thanks largely (but not totally) to the cast, this is a better effort than many of the post-apocalyptic flicks of the decade, despite certain clichés abounding like fine ham.

England 353 all out. India 219 for 7 at the end of day 2. Not bad.

Just watched the highlights (I had the SL+ game on live this evening) and Nu Brown got a really rough decision there. As said earlier, the sight of blood almost certainly had an effect. But it's early in the new regime for players and officials, who are also shaking off early season rust. I think it's more likely that people will talk things over and the game will find a reasonable compromise, rather than the world coming to an end. The reaction on social media is, of course, competitively apocalyptic. But that's what the internet is for.

Somebody floats this notion every now and then. Usually somebody who thinks making RL massive in the UK would be a walk in the park.

Is this like the on-screen clock in the streamed BBC Cup rounds, where it is just a guide and isn't synchronised to take stoppages into account?

Broncos 0:34 Dragons at the end. Not the hammering most expected, but still a scoreless performance from the hosts.

The Roosters' Jersey Flegg players from last season are looking very lively against the Bunnies. Lots of potential for the next few years.

Out for a meal for the first time in a while because my sister was down in London on business, so I missed the Thursday night SL game. We went to La Petite Ferme, near Farringdon Station. A short menu (link below) with a mix of old-school classics and the option of an all you can eat Raclette binge/epic cheese nightmare. We chose from the former and it was excellent. https://www.lapetitefermelondon.com/_files/ugd/c32d59_0cd6da5b8eeb41f89243cbb149077b4e.pdf

Former Hull KR Vice Chairman, Rob Crossland. https://hullkr.co.uk/news/robins-devastated-by-the-passing-of-rob-crossland

Oops! Edited.

Another invasion on this day, when the French landed an invasion force in Wales in 1797, then pretty much everything went wrong. https://mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day-ac4fca3619cf

I think some were successful*, but achieved nothing beyond the event itself, as there was often no grassroots RL in the vicinity of the OTR game. Things have changed a bit on that front. *Wigan v St Helens in Swansea drew a decent crowd, for instance.

Or Hull FC to Gateshead?

Actor and comedian Ewen MacIntosh, best known for his role as "Big Keith" in The Office, has died aged 50. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68357976

Early reports, but not from respectable sources, that the celebrity Holocaust denier David Irving has died.

Not really. But there's more detail in the article. They are looking at alternatives to Magic Weekend.