JonM
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Huddersfield 50 London Broncos 16 this afternoon - three tries for Adam Swift on debut.
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Do try to catch a clip of the Stokes run out - one of the greatest pieces of fielding you'll ever see.
Edit - Like this one:
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Tenuous RL connection. Stokes being the son of a former RL coach is well known, but who knew that Simon Hartley is the son of Bill Hartley, former sprint coach/ conditioner at Widnes and Wigan?
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Just now, Futtocks said:
Well done the Windies! I wasn't expecting that.
Very exciting last few overs. The look on Steve Smith's face
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1 hour ago, Fly-By-TheWire said:
Warrington's youngsters on their first run-out against the Widnes first team who warmed up against Whitehaven last week.
Watched the stream, and although the line defence faltered a little for the young Warrington team in the second half, there was some excellent rugby played. The match is on YouTube, and if you go to the 1 h 30 min mark there is some absolutely champagne stuff between 3 excellent prospects that ends with a try. Right out of the top draw, and very encouraging to see.
I was pretty impressed by the Warrington youngsters, some superb attacking play, lightning fast at times and presumably some combinations that have not played together too often.
.Far from being the Widnes first choice team though, as a quick look at the squad numbers would tell you.
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Warrington 46 Widnes 40 FT - entertaining game.
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Warrington 34-16 up at half-time for Sam Burgess's first game as a coach.. Widnes tries off some soft errors at the start of the game, but Warrington dominant since then. They look very slick with the ball, which considering that there's probably only one first choice player, so presumably some untried combinations, is pretty impressive.
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Warrington v Widnes is live on YouTube. Widnes 10-0 up after 7 minutes
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14 hours ago, Futtocks said:
Skimming the details, it looks pretty hideous.
With this on top of all the things he's done in the past, the man could win the GOP nomination ahead of Trump if he ran.
I don't think it's entirely out of the question that he succeeds Trump. He has been friends with Trump for most of his life, is a major Trump fundraiser and his wife was in Trump's cabinet (the political one, not locked up in his cupboard). Trump is in the WWE hall of fame.
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32 minutes ago, RigbyLuger said:
But I think that's the same for most sports these days, thanks to how football dominates. I could probably have a go at naming an England test team from the mid 90s and get far more than the team playing India today, but that might be a memory thing!
Yes, and of course, it reflects the changing media landscape - live TV shows on BBC/ITV get a fraction of the audience of the past, the newspaper industry is dying fairly rapidly and so there is much less opportunity for sports stars, actors, comedians etc to get some kind of national profile. It does mean that are many more niches to occupy - Youtubers who amass millions of views who most people will never have heard of, and so on.
Perhaps, SL taking control of its own destiny through streaming rather than being paid via a monopoly broadcaster is the model of the near future, and at that point the game's marketing is about finding new audiences for subscriptions, and part of that is or should be making players and coaches into public figures.
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47 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
That rugby league is in a weaker position now than ever?
It’s simply not remotely true.
Yes, I'd kind of skipped over that part - completely disagree with that, we're clearly far stronger in most important respects now.
That quote, though, was in the context of a question about national visibility/ profile, where I think that is indeed true. And of course, that's the part that the sub-editor has used for the headline, as you'd expect. Random people could name rugby league players back then, and not just in the north. That's not true today, probably Richie Myler is the only RL player with any kind of public profile.
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Spot on that Guardian interview, agree with all of that.
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Reading the science reports, it seems like one advantage is that you can much more easily detect who currently has it - a blood test is much easier/cheaper than PET scans or lumbar punctures, which means that it should be possible to do mass screening. And it seems likely that starting the current treatments we do have much earlier will be much more effective than waiting for the actual symptoms to show up - once the damage to the brain is done, it is probably irreversible, but treatments to effectively prevent/ delay rather than cure can be used.
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25 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/alzheimers-diagnosis-treatment-blood-test-b2482854.html
There is no cure or preventative medicine
There are numerous lifestyle changes that affect your risk. Both cardiovascular fitness and strength, diet, sleep all show strong epidemiological correlation with delaying the onset of it. Of course, all of those things have an impact on cancer, heart disease etc. too so you don't need an Alzheimers test to tell you to do something.
HRT for menopausal women, particularly those with the APOE e4 gene variant that has markedly higher risk for Alzheimers, is another thing that would likely be recommended.
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St. Helens 18 Swinton 28 this afternoon, quite a young Saints team.
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4 hours ago, GeordieSaint said:
The lambs have caught me by surprise this year too. Whereabouts are you? Desperately need some hill time otherwise June will be horrific!
Spectacular by Jack Scott and Damien Hall. Scott is 10hrs ahead of Jasmin Parris all time record. Absolutely mental.
Joe O’Leary is annihilating the North race as well. Rapid. Again absolutely mental as it’ll be uber cold out there. A mate did this race (full spine) and it was clocking -20C on top of Cross Fell. It’ll be the temperature tonight and up in the Cheviots too.
I'm in Wensleydale, just along a bit from Hawes towards Leyburn. Hopefully the lambs are safely tucked up somewhere warm tonight.
Quite a lot of snow round here today and more in Cumbria, and obviously the safety rules kick in, with people being held at Dufton to form groups to go over Cross Fell with people not being allowed to continue solo. Looks like some people being held at other checkpoints too. Amazing stuff though.
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19 hours ago, Lowdesert said:
Strangely, I just read this. Unsure if it’s actually on the RFL site!
I don't know. It does seem plausible that England's international calendar for the year would be announced in an exclusive interview with Wigan Today. That's how other sports operate, after all.
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1 hour ago, Hopie said:
Any news/rumours about dates for England v Samoa this year? i'd like to book the days off work...
Lol. Come back in August.
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I've been dot watching too - probably the strongest field ever. Shame John Kelly had to drop out so early.
I did 25k on the tops yesterday, absolutely beautiful in the sun. Dusting of snow and the frozen ground made for much better conditions underfoot than previously. First lambs of the year too, which I was not expecting.
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Widnes 22 Whitehaven 22 for Jack Owens Testimonial. 12 points in the last couple of minutes for Widnes to make it a draw. Haven looked significantly sharper and faster and really ought to have held on for the win.
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1 hour ago, HawkMan said:
ITV show Premiership final, viewing figures peaked at 1.5m, ( 1.3m ITV, 186,000.BT)
Challenge Cup peaked at 1.1m, so very close, that's of course when there was no clash on tv. So who knows what'll happen.
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/premiership-rugby-saracens-harlequins-2023-tv-ratings-uk-bt-itv/
That link seems to be quoting viewership for a game in March which beat the figures for the previous year's final, not the final itself? Oddly enough, I can't find any press release for the 2023 premiership final, which leads me to think that the figures weren't that great. The following has figures for 2022 though.
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7 minutes ago, NRLandSL said:
Lam aswell if you are including Martin. Also Kuni Minga and Casey Dickson are currently playing in France so there are currently 18 Papua New Guineans in Europe.
Yes, I had Lachlan Lam in the list (which is how I counted to 16), but somehow typed over it or something.
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Isn't Stanley Gene on the coaching staff at Hull?
Quite a long list - 16, not including some of those listed above and one or two other recent changes,
Liam Horne (Castleford Tigers)
Edwin Ipape (Leigh Leopards)
Nene Macdonald (Salford Red Devils)
Rhyse Martin (Leeds Rhinos)
Sylvester Namo (Castleford Tigers)
Nixon Putt (Castleford Tigers)
Emmanuel Waine (London Broncos)
Roderick Tai (Warrington)
Keven Appo (Bradford Bulls)
Jason Tali (Doncaster)
Watson Boas (Doncaster)
McKenzie Yei (Featherstone Rovers)
Wellington Albert (Featherstone Rovers)
Edene Gebbie (Whitehaven)
Dion Aiye (Whitehaven)
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It's specifically the rhotic 'R' that they have round Blackburn that they're talking about, isn't it? That used to be more common in North and East Lancs. Lancashire doesn't have just one accent, even today, it's probably one of the more diverse parts of the country in terms of accent.
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Challenge Cup: Third Round Draw
in The General Rugby League Forum
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10 v 11 (or vice versa) might cause the BBC results page a few issues.