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gingerjon

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  1. A few times but not since 1994 - if wiki is correct.
  2. I haven't checked the timings but presumably the two Australia games are at what they consider the prime time and the rest are wrapping around that.
  3. Playing all four games as a blockbuster quadruple header diminishes them all. It was always going to. But they obviously expect most interest to be on the Australia games so the set up is for those.
  4. I don't think the "Lancashire doesn't exist" argument really holds water. The evidence we have is that people do identify with Lancashire sports teams. The kicker being they do that and it doesn't make any difference to whether a Roses match is either profitable enough or competitive enough to matter.
  5. All you're doing is proving that New South Wales v Queensland in rugby league is a unique situation. Not replicable by other variant matches of either New South Wales and Queensland or rugby league.
  6. I don't much care for the Dodgers and I really don't much care for the Yankees - but it was a top drawer series. The only blowout was won by the team who then didn't take the title. Game 1 was a classic for the ages, and Game 5 had the drama. And this moment will live for as long as sport lives.
  7. If those are our only options then I'm of the view that "neither" is a valid answer.
  8. "You want to book our giant inflatable sumo wrestlers, you say? Now that's an order we haven't had for a looooong time ..."
  9. Are you saying no effort has been put in on the other one hundred occasions? What would be different this time?
  10. I don't disagree but I also don't see any particular movement from the RFL for the Knights to play any games at all.
  11. We just need to work out what the cheapest option is. Yorks v Lancs will need two new sets of kits and someone to photoshop a couple of roses onto a shield or two, whereas England v Exiles just the one new kit and one new badge.
  12. The Knights have played 12 times in 14 years, the last time being over two years ago. There doesn't appear to be much interest in reviving them.
  13. What are the options given they can't afford to fly to the southern hemisphere for games and/or nobody at the RFL wants to pay for them to do that? Their next scheduled outing is in Vegas which, and I'm happy to wrong on this, will also be the next competitive fixture for the players?
  14. We have literally every commentator going that there's nothing like international RL, only internationals deliver this, what an an amazing day of international RL etc. We have Australia being enticed to play a series they have lost once in seven decades - because only international RL can reach the parts other games cannot reach. And, in return, we have the coach of England RL saying, "How about we play a mediocre fixture between parts of the M62? It's only failed one hundred times already."
  15. I think a cricket contest has a greater claim to be an Ashes than a rugby league one so I'll let go one that's been called that for 90+ years. I wouldn't have thought Sky Sports' coverage of rugby league was too niche for this board but you live and learn.
  16. Sky Sports (multiple times, here's one) Telegraph (multiple times, here's one) iNews (you get the drift) Yorkshire Post BBC Oh, and this lovely bit of cricket history. But that's only one of them. I was there, though.
  17. As ever, do your bit to show the value of this, if you can. Engage with BBC live text (etc) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/live/cgr0jvpzxkgt
  18. Am aware - it was meant as little bit of light humour for a Saturday morning.
  19. The opening episode of Derry Girls is what I would show to anyone in answer to the question, "How do you set up a new show, introduce all the characters, make it funny *and* have multiple internal story arcs that all come together perfectly inside 25 minutes"?
  20. Gave the heartlands a little treat by playing the Challenge Cup final in Huddersfield.
  21. You can disbelieve all you want but, maybe, to put it in terms you might follow ... suppose you had a favourite band, and suppose that favourite band gave an interview, and in that interview they mentioned that they'd been hugely influenced by an author you'd never heard of. Would you be tempted to check out that author?
  22. "In what's since been dubbed the 'Swiftie effect', the NFL saw viewership among teen girls spike by over 50% during a popular Kansas City Chiefs game according to NBC Sports, with the team enjoying a 30% increase in fan base during the season."
  23. Courtney and Lauren Winfield-Hill have been in the media a few times.
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