gingerjon

Would still be good to see how the side could line up.

14 signings announced (by a very quick count). Someone smarter than me should fiddle about to get a likely starting thirteen together to see if there are any obvious gaps.

Decent for an absolutely freezing Thursday evening.

Presumably because Wigan Athletic are home on Saturday.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/chough/cornish-choughs/

Oddly, every club's supporters on here seem to think their club gets called out for things far more than every other club.

Looking over reports from the end of last year, they will have to spend *some* money (whether that counts as significant or not, who knows) to get the ground up to standard for Super League - and, ironically, some of the work may reduce the capacity a little bit.

Yes, I've seen this covered elsewhere too. I don't go to enough games with big crowds to judge whether anything has changed but it does seem that there is more nonsense going on than there was before Covid.

And a more empathetic coverage of the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/21/a-day-with-leeds-and-manchester-united-fans-police?fbclid=IwAR2oOeH6WCJcfzXZZMGKN4RymCMBIGJPKCML6ebzmD8kpq7ElO__XbYdyHc

All the evidence suggests that this is unlikely

Megalomaniacal owner wilfully destroying the foundations of the club whilst hurtling into a destructive spiral leaving a trail of vanity projects behind? I mean, if you think them not having a big enough crowd for the ground was the real problem then you were never paying attention.

TBH, I only bothered because of Neils' silly comment on the main board that coaches being unsafe is only an issue in the northwest. It was good that he was at Elland Road yesterday to watch no incidents occur. Just a shame that some, thankfully minor in the scheme of things, incidents did occur. Some involving coaches.

This is what no trouble looks like, apparently. And how much it costs. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10533333/900-cops-prevent-crowd-trouble-Leeds-clash-Man-United.html

Is that 8,000 seats they could sell or it is a mix of unsold and ones they have to keep empty for segregation? I'd not heard they were struggling to sell out but, given costs, it wouldn't surprise me. A friend has been to quite a few European matches there because there are nearly always tickets available for those.

Just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning I found myself exchanging a few jokes with Chris Kamara whilst we both did our mandatory LFTs. Here's why: https://jonsmalldon.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/at-the-match-pevensey-westham-ladies-v-ringmer-afc-ladies-dreamtransfer/

Just think how much lower they'd be without the marketing work, then. (I thought it looked decent on the TV by the way in terms of where the crowd was spread.)

There are warnings out not to travel unless it's essential. That's bound to impact the crowds at all games now.

Looks like it's confirmed. Very sad news. I expect he would properly hate the kind words that are about to come his way from Beltway Democrats.

Does that mean no one else can use All Blacks? Because, for example: Wallabies. https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=WALLABIES

Hence the ongoing existence of New Earswick All Blacks.

Do you think the people at the RFL had nothing to do with that happening?

I think it's been said on here that it was Loiners (perhaps rather obviously) but I can't find the details.

Pretty much this. The only time anyone lies for a lower crowd these days is in matches when there's gate revenue sharing as HMRC don't care about that.

How he has a living, I'll never know

Bombers won a poll (I believe) and this is often used as an argument that you should always respect the public vote in such matters. In other news, 'Rhinos' did not win the poll for the Leeds nickname.