JonM

In fairness, some other clubs don't have this year's fixtures on their website yet. This seems like the kind of thing where, in the absence of a full-time marketing/ communications person while the club is on a barely scraping by budget, you need to get supporter engagement and look for a volunteer to run the social media side of things.

This is going to be Warrington's year.

1. Points scored by Newcastle. Over 2. Shirt number of the first try scorer in the Leeds vs Wigan women's game. Over 3. Number of letters in the town/city name of the highest scoring SL team. Under 4. Successful kicks at goal by Leigh. Under 5. Minute of the first try scored by Wigan. Over 6. Home wins on Sunday (WSL, Championship and L1) Over Tie breaker: How many total points will be scored between Siddal Warriors U12's and Stanningley U12's? 36

It does a little bit - Sydney clubs often play at multiple venues around the city and there are 8-10 games per season played in other locations. For example, Penrith take one game each year into the bush at Bathurst, Parramatta play in Darwin every season and so on. But that's more a reflection on Australian weird geography than anything else.

We're a long way from the days of every SL club playing on the road games in the likes of Edinburgh, S. Wales, Northampton etc.

While I think your general point is correct, I don't think this is a good way to look at things. Newspapers are almost dead, live TV audiences are typically about a tenth of what they used to be. I can go through my life without any news about F1, golf, tennis etc. ever impinging on my consciousness because of this fragmentation. The websites of some of our former national media champions, the BBC, Daily Mail and the Guardian in particular, have an international audience and do feature RL to some extent. The Mail had a Cleary profile yesterday and speculation about a move to SL. But only RL fans or perhaps followers of womens football would ever see it. I'm on the Broncos' mailing list, although not a fan. Thought the Hetherington email was excellent, would love to see other clubs do the same. I'm usually pretty picky on spelling, grammar and punctuation, but didn't notice anything wrong in the email, which suggests the actual content grabbed my attention.

His being a shareholder really makes no difference though. Minority shareholders in a private limited company have very little/ no real power. His (perceived from the outside) influence amongst the playing squad, other staff members, fans, sponsors is far more important. I really doubt that him owning a small number of shares in the company had any impact on what's happened.

Same thing seems to have worked pretty well in Queensland. Didn't Wyong/Central Coast already have a go at this? With so many Sydney teams in the NRL, perhaps it would need to be more like US baseball style farm clubs?

Makes absolutely zero difference legally. In my line of work, almost all companies grant shares to employees and it would be reasonably uncommon for an employee to not also be a shareholder. People still get made redundant for all kinds of reasons, project or department closed or whatever, things far short of gross misconduct.

Bottom four championship clubs have to play top four league 1 clubs. Top two in that competition are in next year's championship, then third and fourth place play-off for the remaining spot. London seem very likely to be in the bottom four. If you're going to be in the bottom four anyway, it makes little difference whether you finish on 4pts or 14 pts - it's what the team looks like in late September/ early October that matters and whether you can beat Midlands Hurricanes, North Wales etc. by a bigger points margin than Hunslet etc. can.

I've been to every final since Wembley re-opened (except 2020 obviously). First few years you could pretty much guarantee seeing the kit of every SL & Championship club, but that has definitely dropped away. There's definitely more neutrals than supporters of either competing club though. I think the impracticality and cost of getting across country by train these days is also a factor. It's cheaper and quicker for me to get home from Amsterdam on a Saturday evening using public transport than getting a train from London and forget it if you to want to stay late and watch the 1895 cup match.

He was the official MOTM too. Also pulled off two try-saving tackles against much bigger players.

Yes, that try by Souter was a game changer, although Bradford nearly gave a try back to Widnes by knocking on from the kick off after it. Nathan Mason excellent for the Bulls too for the short spell he was on, too. As you say, the score flattered Bradford but a very good game given the conditions. I think Widnes made six changes over last week and certainly give me some hope of winning in London next week. Odsal never seems to get any better as a place to watch the game though...

Sport Resolutions have all of their decisions published online - most recent rugby league one was Josh Lynch. They seem to be usually at least six months after the original decision. No decision on Aston's appeal yet.

I guess there's well over 100 000 people across Bathurst/ Orange/ Lithgow, a lot less than the Central Coast. Was the weather a factor - looks like there was a fair amount of rain on the Central Coast earlier in the week?

They went into the final game of last season potentially facing relegation.

The Sportsman has Oldham v Halifax 247.tv has Bradford v Widnes (£10 cost).

It was 15k when first built, reduced to 10k in 2017 after the initial 10 year deal had completed. There are now 5k seats in the second tier which are non-premium in terms of access to restaurant facilities etc.

Slightly O/T. In Japan, if you arrive a bit early to work and you came by car, it's normal to park far away from the entrance. This means that people arriving after you don't have as far to walk. The thinking is that those people might run the risk of being late and so you're helping by giving them less of a walk.

1. 'Holding Their Own' - Will Leigh remain 3rd after this week Yes 2. 'MOTM Performance' - Will any player score a hat-trick of tries in Friday Night's SL matches No 3. 'C' You Later - Either Cas or Catalans to win Yes 4. 'Out Of Sight' - Will Wakey score 50+ points against Salford No 5. ' Bragging Rights' - Will KR Outscore FC this week (A tie counts as a 'No') Yes Tie Breaker - Total tries scored in this week's 6 SL games. 36

Widnes (twice). First time after being used for money laundering and a carousel VAT fraud. Current vice chair of Widnes and one of the directors who started up the latest incarnation of the club is a seventy-something retired headteacher. We're not talking about hugely wealthy people. Isn't 'oxford' a former teacher?

Absolute nonsense. Why do you keep posting such rubbish?

Maybe times have changed, but I wouldn't have thought the daughter of a Ugandan asian Hindu immigrant was likely to be the beneficiary of any funny handshakes.

Just googled it, and it looks like yes, but also links through Bradford University and with a politician in Lagos, formerly of Bradford, Megha Joshi. She seems to have had an interesting career. Her father is prominent in Bradford rotary club and various other voluntary/ charity things, years and in business generally and is a deputy lieutenant of West Yorkshire.

He went to Nigeria in his capacity as Bradford chairman a couple of years ago IIRC - donating kit to a schools rugby league project in Lagos.