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I mean, Hull have been hard done by but that was the most obvious offside call you'll ever see charging down that attempt

His foot is clearly already out when he catches it! You can tell by the position of the foot from the different camera angles!

I really wasn't expecting this game to be a good as it has been. Bloody love rugby league

Oooh that is close! Didn't get his feet off the ground properly which looks like it may have cost him

Superb kick from Sezer. The play had broken down and looked to be going nowhere. Just given Hull another chance here.

I don't think he even saw the ball when he was judged to have played at it.

Lovely try from Armstrong, albeit helped by some poor numbering or slow in-field movement in defence from Hull.

Poor guy. Sometimes it actually is better to stay down

So last week you could literally run over the top of a defender and it wasn't obstruction, but this week you make the lightest contact and it's a penalty?

Well Hull should have ended that half with good field position and possession but for Sezar's stupid decision to kick on the first. With the strength of Leigh's defence you can't afford to be making dumb plays like that.

How many penalties have Leigh conceded in the last few minutes? At what point is someone sent to the sin bin?

You're talking about more than just the NRL buying Super League there. You're talking about another split from the RFL and another civil war. Some would be happy with that I'm sure, but I think essentially surrendering all control of the sport and its governance to the NRL is utter madness. We're screwed by economic realities right now, but if we did that it would mean no matter how economic fortunes might change over the next few decades RL in this country would only ever exist to serve the best interests of the sport in Australia.

So it would be back to licensing as we had previously. That didn't lead to mergers at the time so why would things change? I don't see how that would increase the viability of mergers either given the lack of obvious options. Who would actually be at risk of a merger that would make any sort of sense? You'd be looking at a team who wouldn't be willing to continue on a semi-pro basis but I don't see that being the case for any current Super League side. And what hand picked locations are you thinking of?

What do you mean by this? Super League essentially already operates on a franchise basis with the IMG grading criteria.

It's hard to see what the point of mergers would be. I can't really think of many mergers that would even make sense or be feasible currently. The dreadful previous attempts were always doomed to fail due to the distances between the merged clubs. They weren't a separate entity that fans of both teams could realistically get behind. Talk of merging Cumbrian clubs or even having a Cumbria side alongside them just seems pointless. It's the 2nd least densely populated country in England, most of the population centres are small and the travel times between towns in the region can be pretty high. You're not creating anything bigger than what already exists in the first place. Even if you could combine Whitehaven and Workington you wouldn't be creating much. Maybe you'd create a side that had average attendances just above 1,000 in an area that's already steeped in rugby league. There's very little potential for growth. There would need to be value in combining the two teams and I see very little value in combining any current RL teams. Hunslet might be dwarfed by Leeds but all that would happen by combining the two would be Hunslet stop existing. It wouldn't make a difference to Leeds. Swinton and Salford are a similar situation. I think mergers would be a little easier if we had a couple of clubs concentrated within a city region that both teams had an affinity to (if we had some genuine Manchester or London clubs for example). However, we don't, so any talk of mergers would seem a bit pointless.