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I am just removing the splinters and I will also ignore your hospital pass.

This is one thread I would have been posting left right and centre in the past ,after reading through I am glad I didn't, too many predictable angles from the regular parties , just carry on on the road to nowhere like many of these posts.

Be careful these days talk like that is followed by a knock on the door, Infact I am in trouble for reposting your comment.

What are the benefits of Toulouse being in SL ?. If they don't get the chance to establish like Catalan were given the answer is nothing. If given the chance it help increase the French opportunities for young players coming through were Catalan are a limited option. It will if given time give us another (derby) and hopefully create more highlights, Some people say Catalan give nothing to SL, well these same people will not even look at Toulouse with anything but negatively. I don't want Toulouse to replace existing SL clubs but as part of 14/16 team competition, that ultimately is the direction the sport needs to go rather than shrinking to create short term increases of standards when the direction is in the wrong way.

Can't argue, but this is not GF day it's round 20, well deserved win but no team is winning every week, wires run in is favourable with Harrison,King and Fitsgibbon back. Funnily enough I feel more confident with Warrington after watching the game, it's a good wake up call from a good side, with king and Fitsgibbon back on the left side it makes a huge difference and Harrison adds more power in the middle. Burgess will be able to rotate were needed in the last 7 matches something others will struggle to do with their run ins.

Well done HKR played to plan, nullified Warrington and full credit for a convincing win.

Would NRL be as successful if the soccer had been as popular as in the rest of the world. I am 63 but I still enjoy watching SL , there is loads of young talent coming through, considering what we are up against in this country, football killing every code, professional union ( no players increasing the player pools from union) a society were weekends are no longer the regular days off for people to enjoy playing and watching sports. History is in the past stop looking back and enjoy the now and if you prefer NRL ,watch it but don't waste your time and energy comparing and moaning.

On your line of logic nothing will ever be guaranteed except death. And then you will probably question it.

It gives him a chance to learn his trade and have a chance to create history if he is able to win a GF in his tenure. There is ample time to go back to the NRL.

To be fair every team missing their best attacking players will drop levels, take Williams and Dufty out and wire win rate would drop. I think O'Neill being out will hit them hard.

Did FC kick a drop goal?

Ipape is a good nine but certainly not Dwyer, and Walker and Powell are far a better combination. But if you are happy that's all that matters.

My god that must stick in the throat, go and have a lie down.

But keyboard warriors don't pick sides

Well only time will tell, but Burgess has shown his confidence in giving youngsters a chance in fact this season has probably seen more given game time than any Warrington coaches in recent times, Bateman would still be selected for England so it's a decent gamble for the last third of the season.

More like he thinks he is someone who will add to the squad in the rest of the season.

Experienced big game player, will be invaluable for Warrington in the final section of the season were squad depth, available players and big game experience will prevail.

Agreed, you need a balanced panel/ pundits not two saints players who played or are still playing for saints.

Wouldn't like to put some money on that view, to get 6 (unless you call names) you have to do far more than that.

When wire are going into saints games with high expectations they usually lose, and win when given little chance.

Herbie Farnworth, Victor Radley,KPP, Morgan Smithies plus Young and Burgess.

Smith has been outstanding for Wigan this season, sneyd is a bit like lee briers everyone calling for him to be picked yet only having odd games at international level.

Will copy the letter and forward it to you.

Not directly on the theme, I have just wrote to the RFL over Warringtons latest visit to France. A 69 yr old female relative with a disabled 30 yr old son who has to use a wheelchair we're treated terribly at the Catalan stadium (they have attended every Warrington, Catalan away game. For the first time they had sun protection confiscated and it was warm and sunny, they were put in the temporary stand (first time , and they always book as wheelchair chair tickets). The Access was impossible for a wheelchair never mind able bodied fans, the stand was crudely built with nails protruding, the wheelchair was placed right at the fence which was covered by posters offering almost no visibility. After numerous complaints they were eventually placed in a more appropriate place, but this was well into the playing time. The fans concerned have vowed never to attend Catalan away games ,but the ironic thing is that whilst they were in breach of numerous H&S regulation but also disabled people regulations all this while they are wheelchair champions. If they were based in the UK they would have been liable in numerous ways.

I enjoyed the day, I can see it means a lot to the participants and clubs and even too the fans of the clubs but we all know the neutral fans are really diluted, I have been all Warrington finals and 2009/2010 all my extended family went (people who never attend normal games). The days out have been diluted with magic, Catalan away and the GF.