gingerjon

We should run a poll.

Where's the "I don't recall saying 'Good luck'" option?

It really does all depend what they do with it. Is there anything else to this?

We’ll have had at least two more international calendar resets by then. England playing PNG and another nation before the Australia series is a good idea.

It's in the Operational Rules that they can do that. What I'm not clear on (cue @Griff) is whether there needs to be a formal appeal ahead of the involvement of Sporting Resolutions so the RFL are following protocol and Aston is trying to circumvent the process, or if it is the appeal itself which goes to Sporting Resolution and the RFL are blocking (*), in which case, why extend the deadline? Either way: not a witchhunt, offence is serious, punishment on evidence presented remains at the lenient end.

Was about to write, having gone away to think about it, that my memory was that I felt 6 months too lenient, especially as it covers, as indeed does Ashton's, 'time' rather than games, so there was a sizeable chunk of off-season.

Seems pretty clear. He was given two weeks. An extension has been granted to today.

The most recent linked article says that the period to appeal has been extended to today (11th November)

Section D1. It's pretty clear. But then you know that already.

And those are all positive but, compare them to union, and it's dwarfed pretty much every week of the year. We shouldn't be comparing ourselves to union. We should be doing the best for RL and celebrating that for its own sake.

Wales RU are on a ten game losing streak. It takes them back to this time last year.

England have played on the same weekend as club fixtures before now. As we have the issue that we're selling games to the same people, the overlap creates problems.

I'm sure you have second generation who are to all intents and purposes Irish but in Britain but the numbers of Irish born people in the UK are lower now than at any time since the 1930s. Still not insignificant though - that's over 300,000 people.

I think the answer is no and also that we should stop comparing to RU at every turn and get on with being the best that RL can be. But, for reference, this past weekend saw home internationals in RU for: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, France, UAE, Hong Kong, Canada, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Georgia, Kenya, Ukraine*, Czechia. We're not close to that and we're not likely to get much closer right now. The comparison makes us look small time.

Every club who has ever played an ineligible player will hope this works and all those punishments can be overturned because the onus was on the governing body to stop them. I'm not understanding the rest of it. It would be good to see the Appeal process laid out and what the process is. It could simply be that the Appeal needs to go in before Sporting Resolutions get involved. Or it could be something more. But this doesn't really explain it.

As long as you don't go FKW, it's fine.

If the London Broncos have London Broncos aspirations then maybe showing a bit of humility and playing somewhere suitable might be a good start. (I haven't been to Rosslyn Park for about 20 years so can't comment on the state of the place but Plough Lane is not right for where the club is in reality and is too expensive).

"We've gone to Wimbledon by mistake"

So does that mean an appeal has been lodged? The RFL use Sports Resolution all the time. They're the lot named for appeals to the grading scores for example.

There's a World Cup in 2026. In Australia. Be quite a good idea to have some experience of playing together as a team out there in advance.

There's been a tribunal about it and everything.

My mistake here was assuming that because he actually named someone there would be something to it - I tend to assume he's got some truth, he's just thick and misunderstands it. The damage it does to the game though because we have a rumour based info eco system is that a load of people will now have this as a half memory, "Didn't a London deal fall through?" rather like how we now have the zombie "Bedford were buying Cornwall's licence" that is still said by some despite being debunked within a day or two.

I think it's irrelevant to a thread about a deliberate failure to follow a basic procedure and then lying about it.

Took until Graeme woke up for it to be denied https://x.com/G18EME/status/1854806044465058083

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