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A secondary test takes 8-10 weeks to receive? That’s ridiculous in 2024

By the looks of things, he’ll be spending more time in fast food outlets. He was embarrassing in the game against the Knights, I’m surprised Bennett hasn’t booted him. He was blowing hard after 5 minutes. He’s at least a stone overweight. It’s such a shame because he was one of the most promising props in the game when he was at Brisbane, a destructive ball runner. Now he’s just an overweight penalty machine and an impulsive offloader, often when it’s not on. I hope the Dragons can revitalise him but if Bennett can’t then I don’t hold out much hope that the south of France will

I disagree, Souths are the biggest disappointment given their fan base. Their poor attendance is clearly a result of them being gash and having to play their home games at the soulless vacuum that is Accor stadium

Watched this on iplayer yesterday. The crowd noise was out of sync with the play - it was about 5 seconds ahead of play, so you knew when Salford had made a break/scored a try or Catalans made a mistake ahead of the play, which was very annoying. Was this the same with the live feed? I must admit, I found BBC's coverage to be really poor compared with C4. It doesn't help when they had Hunter-Paul on co-commentary

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/salford-red-devils-confirm-six-players-to-depart-at-end-of-season-including-veteran-trio The clear out at Salford begins

Why wasn’t Miski given a green card?

Maybe you should pay a bit more then

May has really let the Warriors back into the game. His clueless pick up from dummy half and awful kick has changed the momentum and dynamic in the game. Good player but he’s not a player for big games. Too loose

In fairness, running can't be easy in Norfolk with the webbed feet

Lewis Murphy confirmed at Saints for 25. In some ways I'm disappointed he didn't stick it out in the NRL, I thought he would displace Tupou eventually. However, it will be good seeing him back in SL

I disagree, massively overhyped. The comparisons with Inglis do him no favours. He’s just one of those big kids with pace who destroyed peers in the age groups but plateaus at open age. He’s got more about him than Cotric so could still be a good rep player but he’ll have to work hard to achieve it, rather than it coming easy to him like through the age grades

Farnworth has always been streets ahead of either of those players. Cobbo has been built up ridiculously by the press, reminds me of Cotric when he came through. So overrated. Mariner has potential but currently he’s a better wing than centre

That’s because the standard isn’t very good in WSL

I expect the backing up from midweek to be revisted at some point in the near future..............it goes against all efforts to make the game safer, and reckon we'll see mandatory rest periods. Now that doesn't mean it will be the end of midweek Origins because NRL could just continue without their stars but I'd rather see a dedicated 3 week block for this. It's currently too disruptive to NRL season as it is, and NRL always loses some spectator interest during this period

I think we'd all like to see this happen but I think it's unlikely because the golden goose that is Origin is now midweek and that's where they prefer it. It means NRL teams backing up, which is ridiculous, particularly from a player safety perspective. Ideally you'd have a 3 week break for Origin, combined with a 3 week international break. This would extend the season by 3 weeks though - the NRL could start earlier I suppose, to bring it closer to SL start