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Maybe - certainly one of the better ideas. The idea with the points as it stands is - I think - not neccesarily the three best players in the game, but the ones who had most impact. Something along those lines anyway, as often the MOTM for a side may not be the player in that side that gets most points. Combining that and consistency would be worth invesigating anyway

Some good arguments regarding how the award could change. In general I do like the award actually, even though I think it has some flaws. I don’t necessarily agree that some of the winners/contenders devalue the award – if it was the exact same players that won everything else then there is little point in the award existing. I think the “average rating” thing is good in theory, but it would make far duller reading of a Monday morning IMO. Leave that to club end of season dinners and the local papers best player award.

With the change in editorship, will we ever see a resolution to "Golden Boot - The Missing Years". It seemed like John had some sort of plan, maybe linking to the World Cup at the end of the year. Will it see the light of day? A shame if not. Also, new mag looks stunning. A natural evolution of the changes made in the past couple of years.

Think it started around then - although there is such a massive turnover of cast that it's unsurprising it's unrecognisable from what it once was. When it started it was more of a straight-ish drama. Nowadays it's more of a long running serial - ie a soap without being a soap, much like Casualty/The Bill, both of which similarly evolved over time.

Excellent! There are THREE teams that get promoted every year so it is extremely hard to keep track of over a 12 month period.

It's an editorial piece though not a news report.

I noticed the Like buttons around lunchtime. Does that mean I'm special? (I already know I don't have a life!)

Yeah, I'm pretty pleased. Don't think he's ever had anything less than a solid performance for us yet. A real fan favourite in the making for us I feel.

Cracking last day in the Championship all over, especially for the Yorkshire teams. Soccer Saturday came into it's own in particular! Double celebrations at Huddersfield vs Barnsley - apparently when it was clear both teams were safe the Barnsley keeper just kept the ball in his box for about 2 minutes and nobody even challenged for it!

So many people have told me to get into Game of Thrones, but I just don't get it myself. Watched the first two or three episodes a few times in a vein attempt to get into it, but to no avail. Shame as I do want to like it (it looks superb on Blu Ray), but just one of those things I guess. My current obsession is Breaking Bad. No spoilers please, but just finished Season 3 and I thought the last two episodes were some of the best tv I have ever seen. Getting Season 4 at the weekend and am quite excited.

I thought they got rid of Adrian Chiles last year!

Probably not for a few months - the second story was only filmed recently, while the one that was on over the weekend was filmed well over a year ago and has been ready for ages. I did enjoy it, the first part more so. I think two hours in total was stretching the concept a bit far for one story. Will still watch the second one though.

I tweeted that I saw Nicky Campbell in the street the other week and that he looked surprisingly old. Didn't use his username, but he must have been searching himself as he replied to me a few hours later.

Just a quick FYI regarding Sky Sports 2 being a "downgrade". Since this football season began, on Saturdays all of Sky's Premier League content from Soccer AM to Football First and all matches etc inbetween have been on SS2. Sky have noticably been shifting content around since then rather than just putting all their "good stuff" (in their eyes, not ours) on SS1.

They are also at Chelsea vs Arsenal on the Sunday I think. Probably a bit of a logistical nightmare considering they probably dont have that many cameras. It is poor do after previously having said they'd do the GF in 3D though

Didn't they beat Whitehaven in the Championship (presumably then NL1) final in extra time. Gutted for Haven that day - but Leigh sure went to town in extra time, fair play.

Maybe, but it's not like Chelsea vs Arsenal is going to be struggling for viewers so it's not particularly balanced in that sense. Also just as a piece of information - I think Sky's magazine is one of the biggest print publications in the country reaching more homes than any other magazines just by the sheer number of subscribers. Regardless of if you think print media is currently relevent or not, or however many people chuck it straight in the bin - the magazine reaches an impressive number of people and coverage in there can do only good

Not that one could tell from the title, but it is already being discussed at length on this thread - http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=209170&st=0

It's been all over the Bradford boards for months. Nostradamus, you ain't. PS - How is the Bulls' re-signing of Fielden going. You told us he was at Odsal inking the contract the other week and then you went suspiciously quiet on the matter...!

Fair enough if you don't want to buy an away kit, it's your choice and nobody is forcing you. But it's rather illogical to assume that if you think it everyone else does! They are a moneyspinner for clubs regardless of if you like it or not purely by the fact that they keep being made and people keep buying them - otherwise clubs would have given up years ago.

How does/would golden try work? I presume if you score a 2 or 1 pointer before the end of "Golden Try" that will eventually win the game at the end of that specific period presuming the scores aren't still drawn and a try isn't scored What if in the extremely unlikely event you go ahead through penalties by more than 4/6 then the trailing team scores a try in that period? Do they automatically win? I know it matters little, but it's been bugging me all morning.

That will be on iplayer as well if it's any help

The thing is the away kit is only a moneyspinner most of the time, a lot of the time clubs wear away kits when they are away even when there is no clash to give value for money for the fans that have forked out for them. I believe even if the RFL had said Hudds could wear their home shirt, you can request to wear the away one. It can even happen the other way around - Bradford requested to wear their away kit at home a couple of years ago as they had hardly worn it away!

I just did. It was exactly the same as it is now. If you want to protest against Sky, go ahead. If you want to fight against the lack of P&R you are fighting the wrong battle by going for Uncle Rupert

Dealt with the announcement quite well on Sky. Carney looks utterly shellshocked. They mentioned O'Connor was devastated - was he supposed to be there today? Missed the first match EDIT: He's on now, ignore me