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I think the original post was a genuine one and obviously I don’t mind the banter between East and West of the Pennines but the subject is in fact a very serious one. There’s been a visible and measurable decline in participation right across the board, specifically in the strongholds of Yorkshire. Places like Castleford, Wakefield and Hull have seen a huge decline in Amateur Clubs and an alarming reduction in the number of teams run in the surviving Amateur clubs. Where Clubs would run teams at all age groups now it’s hit and miss with many of the age groups missing a team, for example, a club might run teams from U7s to U11s but no U12s or U14s and can only run an U15s because they’ve merged 2 teams from two different amateur clubs. At the same time there’s been a similar reduction in Schools participation with some traditionally strong schools not playing any Rugby League at all. We often talk about the TV contract and funding as the big issue in the game but no one seems to want to talk about the decline and the REAL participation numbers. It’s no good pretending that they’re OK by including the same Kid 3 times by using his/her participation at school, Amateur Club and Scholarship and pretending it’s 3 players. In terms of funding, yes include PDRL, Wheelchair, Women’s and Girls and that’s all good but boys and men’s participation is drastically down over the last decade or two and it’s reaching a critical point.

RIP DANNY

I was at the game and got a pair of Aussie match shorts with the KB logo on, still have them somewhere in a box. 1978, we had played a match for our local City representative team and then stayed on to watch the Ausies

England Team if it were selected right now? 1.Wellens 2.. Young 3. Wardle 4. Farnworth 5. Johnstone 6. Williams 7. Dodd 8. Burgess 9. Ackers 10. Havard 11. Whitehead 12. McMeekin 13. C Smith 14. Lewis 15. Knowles 16. Oledski 17. Thompson

I’m not sure they’re better on paper or on the field than Stacey Jones and Henry Paul

I’m amazed that Chris Chester isn’t on that list

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Think there will be multiple Cas fans with visible bismarks

Think there's just 12 points between them

Jowitt in under the sticks 42 - 6

innes Senior with his 4th try of the game kick to come

Hood scores kick to come 30 - 6

Linham gets in at the corner kick to come 26-6

Dom Young gets his 20th Try of the season and tops the NRL Try scoring charts

Which means he’s now averaging a try a game in the top flight of Rugby League including England games. Played 45 Try’s 45

You never drank in the Hark to Mopsey then

They do, whether they consider it so or not! I know many many people from Sharlston, old and young, lifetime friends and close ones at that. They are from Sharlston first and always and proud of it but they also know that Sharlston is in Wakefield

Two more try’s and an assist in todays match Vs Brisbane Broncos Including England games his record in the top flight reads like this: Dom Young Height 6’7” Weight 17st Played 44 Matches Scored 43 try’s Not bad for young lad still only 21 years old playing on the other side of the world in the highest standard of Rugby (either code) on the planet.

I thought Welsby was the stand out underperformer in the loss to Samoa

What goes under the radar about Dom is the number of times Newcastle make a break or score a try immediately after Young has stretched the defence and got a lightening fast play the ball, he’s George Burgessesque in that regard.

Correct! for what it’s worth here’s my theory on the sock planet we put PAIRS of socks into a washing machine, the spin cycle actually opens up a small vortex just big enough to suck in a single small item which exits the vortex at the other end which is somewhere on the surface of the sock planet. This explains where our sock goes and why we all have an odd sock in the washing pile. The upside of this is that should we ever fathom this out we could sort out all the transport issues of the world, save money on HS2 and go a long way to solving the climate crisis.

Which is good news if he was a teenager in the late 70s early 80s otherwise it’d be weird

Here’s an interesting fact The James Webb telescope has discovered a planet that appears to be covered in odd socks, billions of them

From the ridiculous statements you’ve been posting HTH