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Yorks stadium is definitely the blueprint of what the town needs. A modern pitch which holds up through winter, a large bar and hospitality area located in the ground, a proper club shop for merchandise, plenty of parking around the ground. Both teams are doing the best with what they can but when you've got 2 old grounds with no room to expand due to location (next to busy built up area's) trying grow revenue streams is very difficult. The only thing I'd try make sure is you don't want it too far out of the town centre. Schneider road would be ideal and to compensate for losing quite a few football pitches some investment is made to put some all weather pitches elsewhere in the town (there is a huge shortage of these currently).

The damage is already done in Australia. Australian Rugby Union are no longer a force and this has contributed to them slipping down the world rankings. Christchurch is on its way. The Warriors are absolutely flying. The Warriors made significant changes to their pathways in 2019 and are starting to reap the rewards with some cracking young talent coming through. If they get a Christchurch team set up with good development pathways and it's competitive then New Zealand rugby union is in a world of bother. The point I made is that NRL clearly has a vision and does everything it can to make it happen in the best interests of the game. That's what we need, we need to get away from pandering to clubs/rich chairman and focus on a long term strategy. If getting NRL involved with their expertise enables everyone should be for it.

I follow the Australian game pretty comprehensively. The NRL has started dominating Union in the Southern Hemisphere since COVID and this is mainly due to PVLs pretty ruthless direction in making decisions in the best interest of the game and improving the product. When you listen to people talk about why they are getting involved it's because they've identified to keep growing the sport it needs to be a global product and a strong northern hemisphere is important to keep growing to try challenge with other codes. You can quite clearly see direction in the NRL. I don't think we have any clear direction in well over a decade and it's costing us. Our solution is to just change the league structure once in a while and hope things improve. It's 100% a good thing for the sport having them involved.

How many games have Hull won since Cartwright left?

They've clearly learned from what happened and have made changes for the next game. Its the talking point of today but will soon be forgotten about. The important thing is to learn lessons and keep improving.

Games like that at Craven Park aren't that uncommon as there is quite frequently a huge wind from the coast which gives teams an advantage depending on which way they are playing. There was absolutely no wind tonight so I have absolutely no explanation how 1 team can win 28-0 first half and the other 39-0 second half.

Ryan King should have been man of the match by a mile. He spent the whole second half running over people and ended up scoring a try he had no right to score which broke Dewsburys spirit.

You sure?

Glad I don't feel on my own. You had more belief than me that's for sure.

I'm currently trying to buy Crestas magic dust.

35-28 up with 2 mins left. I've been following Barrow rugby 20 years I have never seen anything like this.

I think lethargic is being kind. Dewsbury have just ran and tackled harder and put us under pressure which has resulted in loads of errors. One of the most shocking results I've seen in a long time. I think they thought as Dewsbury turned up late we would roll them. They've absolutely rolled us. No chance we come back from this.

I've got a feeling there will be more than 1550 there.

We also have a new face in the middle. Our middles in the squad for Saturday are Singleton, Bullock, Walker, King, Richards and Makin. Good luck Dewsbury.

Good win. Sunday will be a tough game backing up on a 4 day turn around. Hopefully get a good crowd Sunday. Forecast is 22C (feels like we have been unlucky with weather at home games this year) and it's a bank holiday weekend. I don't see any reason why we can't win our remaining fixtures. We play Widnes and Oldham away which will be tough but both sides have a bit of drama off the field, Oldham have started losing players.