Wakefield Ram

Really strong performance today all round. Played some really good rugby, plenty of offloads and backing up and great to see Lewis Carr get an overlap to use, couple of great runs today to set up tries. Ferguson was another level. Bailey O'Connor is getting better each time I see him play, has real quality. Thought London played well, well organised, didn't do a lot wrong, but a thoroughly professional Rams performance.

Paul Sykes seems a lot more restrained in talking to the ref. Maybe it's because we're winning.

He's only been put on report, not found guilty of anything.

Looking at the video Rest all went for the ball then made contact with the Oldham player who caught the ball in the air so fair call.

Only seen the highlights but good to see Greg McNally whingeing and whining at the ref. Never changes.

Congratulations to everyone who was involved with organising the night, it was a really great night and great to see all the heroes from 1973 plus Alan Smith and David Ward from Leeds.

Many thanks for this. Any chance you could scan a copy and put it on the forum?

The bit about getting promoted and players losing their contracts is interesting. If you were a Fev player on a very good contract, promotion will most likely mean losing your contract and going elsewhere in the Championship for a much lower contract......

Didn't get much help from anyone else.

Good win for Rams today over a good Doncaster side.

Very good performance overall. Doncaster succeeded when they were able to slow the ptb down. Once the identified Graham's advantage over Halliday, they made the most of it. Tackled really well, though surprised Doncaster didn't try to kick on 6th near our line. But well done to the players, they deserved the win and top marks to Butterworth for another top 80 minutes on defence and attack.

Thanks for posting this, I didn't know.

I'm not sure what rubbing a tackled player's face into the ground adds to the game. But I can see that it's exactly something that will put off more than it attracts.

Along with the "trainer" of the attacking side being on the field for full sets of six.

Definitely the toughest game of the season so far. But I'm backing us for a narrow win.

Keighley are safe from relegation, Gale is 34, Trinity are desperate to stay up, Keighley get a transfer fee and save on Gales wages. Everyone's a winner.

Totally agree. Capital is usually raised to fund investment, not to pay running costs.

True, I'm just going on my experience of working with people like this. Both sides will have exit clauses so 12 years about as worthless as a players or coaches contract. It would be good to see how they define "increase in commercial income".

I think it will be close and that we will win. London Broncos are coming off the back of two heavy defeats. Pretty much all our players have played Championship level.

Do you think they will have negotiated any sort of contract where they would risk they won't get paid? They will have set the bar low enough to ensure any "results" mean they get paid and any good results will mean get rewarded exceptionally. Seen plenty of executives who've been handsomely rewarded for ordinary results. That's why they have agreed the approach. They said they would "re-imagine" the game. All we've got is licensing re-hashed.

Remarkable when you think about it. Even now, knowing the risks of brain injury they all complained about an initiative aimed to reduce the risk of them becoming brain damaged.

They were still paid as semi-professionals.

I worked for a very large bank and we had consultants tell us that we should just focus on the premier wealthiest customers and stop offering accounts to "normal" customers. Short-term that's fine, but longer term,most of the wealthy customers didn't start out rich. RL is only as strong as its weakest link. IMG are a marketing organisation only interested in making money for themselves. If it damages the game below SL, they don't care. If it fails completely, they just walk away. Trickle down economics doesn't work.

True, just saying that the RFL couldn't just blame the refs.

Refs are employees of the RFL, so no defence.