gingerjon

You found the same bits I did then. Nice to see someone supporting RL and, hopefully, it's money coming in but tempted forumites should do some research first.

Nobody needs a watch partner. It’s corporate speak and we need more of it. I would urge anyone who is normally tempted (I definitely am) to prioritise companies who support RL to give this lot a swerve should you be looking for a new watch though.

Local RU calls off matches for the pitches being too hard in no rain periods.

“I enjoyed the past but I’m happy I don’t live there”

The only issue is in believing your past was uniquely good when compared to a present that is somehow wrong because it isn’t your past.

A short political digression to say: we are basing whole, very consequential, policies on the phrase, "the kids these days, with their phones", seemingly in blissful ignorance that that attitude has existed since at least, "It is 10pm, do you know where *your* teen is?" - which, I believe, is from the 1950s.

I genuinely don’t do but I‘d be surprised if playing for one British team was their only income - either training, teaching or playing elsewhere are all options

That makes sense as they sit on the RL Commercial board.

Apparently the average is £26k for the season.

And this is kind of my point - we’re a big country of 70 million people. Being third or fourth in some places might mean only the faithful know - but if there’s enough of the faithful and some of them have money then it’s all you need.

Two different ownership groups and corporate sponsorship seem to be the main funding. No idea on average attendance but, and this is the bit that people (not you, necessarily) always overlook: some of these places we talk about our pretty big, even if 90% of the population do not care, it could easily be enough to sustain a team.

Should also add, looking at what they've got, and the amount they have to spend, that the WA government has done well here.

This attitude obviously plays well to the existing NRL audience. How's it playing in Perth? (Genuine Q - can't really find anything).

And yet, in football mad Newcastle, Newcastle Eagles basketball have managed to get the support and funding together to build a dedicated basketball arena and fund a whole suite of community programmes. It takes money, yes. But it also takes money and patience - and security.

Have they had a meeting that's actually made him Chair, then?

Then you'll forgive anyone who doesn't bother to read any of your posts.

The journos over here seem to not know basic facts and have the memory of goldfish so imagine that once it’s followed some Chinese whispers a few thousand miles. That’s what this is.

Superbike riders Shane Richardson and Owen Jenner https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/05/two-riders-dead-after-catastrophic-11-bike-crash-in-race-at-oulton-park

Really odd that it wasn’t there to begin with but good to know it’s coming.

Some fans really need to get over themselves.

Oh, I know. I think it’s a mature enough event now to know that it’s the teams and venue, rather than fixtures, that seem to be the biggest variables and we actually have remarkably little fluctuation at St James’s Park.

To repeat: 11k up on last year, highest since 2018.

Available in most M&S's.

Newcastle have stuck around long enough to have a decent ownership these days and to have built their own arena. John Hall, I suspect, was long gone when they started to develop properly though.

Don't ruin my very funny joke.