Just Browny

Tbh I listened to 20 minutes but switched over to Radio Leeds on digital after the Radio Manchester feed kept cutting out. Like you I have a great amount of respect for him, he's been an ever present on the radio for pretty much my entire life!

Daryl Powell will be going on about 'us smarts' again at the end of this one.

Of course, Hunt is a Leigh fella and one of the finest voices in rugby. No harm in a bit of bias, that's how it's supposed to work.

Must admit, I like having all the Super League games on the box but I do enjoy and miss BBC local radio coverage too.

Hmm, Trevor Hunt and Neil Turley on Radio Manchester have a slight Leigh inclination.

Surely not 'umble Matty Peet. He was probably taking the referee a miniature bottle of whisky.

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but the dual reg agreement between London and Salford is a spectacular move. What a pairing.

A time and a place for what? We can make it into whatever kind of event we want. A good start for things that would make it an event for me are: - A decent fan zone - we get this right most of the time provided nobody invites Wayne Godwin and his mate - Meet and greets with Brad Fittler or Andrew Johns before the game, and a presentation to great Ashes players from both countries on the pitch - A proper singer of the anthems, with a real orchestra/band and a sound system that actually works - Some good clips from great Eng/GB-Australia matches on the screen before the match. - Decent food and drink for sale in and around the stadium, with a set of staff who've actually been briefed on what a RL crowd is like compared to a football one.

The non-RL friends I brought along were so bored at that. Still, all we need is 26 players, a ref, one ball (Sports Direct will do), some thorough pitch markings and hand the rest of the revenue over to the club chairmen.

I remember the England v Tonga game at Huddersfield where they didn't even bother to open the food kiosks, never mind lay on any entertainment. Utterly dismal. I suppose if they had announced that the money they saved on the experience had been donated to Rochdale Hornets that might have made it feel more worthwhile.

Yep, and yesterday they announced every seated ticket had been sold. Our mate the 'alternate row guy' has clocked in hasn't he. Releasing the last 10,000 tickets, 20 tickets at a time.

We've only sold 100 tickets and they've counted each one 600 times. It's 2021 all over again.

Uh oh

Yes, I agree. I didn't actually realise I was in the first window, so signed up for window 2. By the time I had agreed my group's numbers, my original code had expired. So to some extent my own lack of organisation paid off; if I had assumed rightly that I was going to get pre-access on account of having bought England tickets previously, I'd now be having to wait until the general sale. I think a longer window 1 and a shorter window 2 would have been better - probably 3-4 days for each.

Where is Scubby these days? He would be loving this.