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gingerjon

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  1. I mean, I've heard of damning with faint praise ...
  2. I thought Brian Carney was the first? Digging into wiki, I can't see any others.
  3. Worth stating as well, that 2x10's advocates are usually not envisaging anyone coming in to join the lucky 20.
  4. Jolly amateurs playing for the love of the game. Pure Corinthian spirit, alive and well. You love to see it. Rugby was ruined when money got involved.
  5. Yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Rugby_League_European_Cup
  6. They might do. But I'm not the one who picked out a pretty poor example of media bias: the BBC, exclusive broadcaster of the game with live text on the web and TV coverage, alongside radio updates, writing up a report and headline in the same style applied to the other sports it covers. There are better examples but the reality is that British media is essentially on its knees at the minute. Whereas bias might have been genuine before, quite often these days it's more down to classic incompetence, shallow pockets and a lack of time. Hence why other sports are equally able to point out equivalents. It has nothing to do with whether the BBC employee is called Tarquin.
  7. I don't remember names particularly well but I do note how returnees have a certain, blindingly obvious, approach.
  8. Which is irrelevant to this discussion. Good to have you back, by the way.
  9. I think it's fairly common knowledge that Ineos - basically that weirdo Brexit chap and his order following minions - have gone fully barking. Cutting costs on things that make no difference (i.e. sacking staff for no reason) and instituting work practices for staff that will turn off the kind of people they need to recruit. So many egos and so little clue.
  10. Very pleasantly surprised by how sales are going for Leeds.
  11. Outside the top 50 in global population. It just shows up those sports as being tinpot. Come along to a proper global sport like handball and Australia can't even make the world finals.
  12. Cricket is spectacularly badly covered at the minute. All the complaints (justified) about scores and fixtures, for example, are worse for cricket. It frequently has fixtures for bewilderingly low tier domestic games in other countries (but never then the score) or can't name the competition international sides are playing for.
  13. Great thread this, not least because it's an absolute load of balls. The headlines for rugby union, when I checked, were pretty much the same as for rugby league in terms of matches being close, tense, whatever. The Guardian went with "George Williams dazzles" in their headline. Which rather ruins the add on stuff. We don't get enough exposure but this thread is embarrassing nonsense.
  14. To back this up: last two men's internationals were 10,000 and 20,000 short of capacity. The Lionesses v Germany didn't break 50,000 this time around. I know, because it's one of my other worlds, that transport home was a key issue around the Lionesses game in particular.
  15. Indeed. Well, we wouldn't want to let anyone know about our game, would we?
  16. This one and 'hardly any' are the answers. Given that it comes up after the NRL and other channels not showing highlights when I search, I think we can probably mark it down as 'good idea, not particularly well delivered'. The BBC page isn't one of those that logs views so no idea for them - it was on the main page for a short time and is now just on the rugby league one.
  17. BBC Sport website has highlights (looks like went up around the same time as NRL's YouTube) and the England Rugby League YouTube channel does as well.
  18. It was different when we had two events per year at the national stadium for football and rugby league (which the new Wembley was) as part of its funding agreement. We're out of that now and, also, London has alternatives.
  19. The three venues should have three distinct audiences. No 3-for-2 series tickets and, related, as per @Archie Gordonearlier - absolutely no double headers.
  20. If you want a very minor positive ... Five Live included it in their round up sporting action taking place yesterday. During the Sunday morning show it was along the lines of, "We'll have a preview of England v Samoa, which you can watch on BBC Two later, and not forgetting that Scotland and Ireland are also playing for a full programme of international rugby league."
  21. As you say, absolutely disgusting thing to have happened and the only fair solution is the termination of the entire Washington programme and the awarding of the game, and an additional game for psychological duress, to the blameless Chicago Bears.
  22. We’ll avoid Jillaroo double headers by making the Vegas game a stand alone women’s Ashes test.
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