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Warrington will canter to a win without getting out of second gear but who at Warrington thought that social media clip of the mascot at Wakey Wines was a good idea?

At least we never get "the lads put in %110 tonight".

The Neverending Story thanks to watching Stranger Things

Red Rum and the National Hunt horses of that era would probably be able to just plough straight through the modern Grand National fences. I would raise the fences a little to force the horses to be slowed down before jumping as well as moving the start further forward so the field can't build up as much speed to the first fence.

A Cumbrian SL franchise with the Cumbrian clubs underneath it sounds like a decent idea in theory but in reality it wouldn't work.

It wasn't one of the better performances and overall I would say 6/10 due to the poor first half as Castleford should have been further in front, but that game showed how far Rovers have come as a team from last year. Those are the types of games that teams who are serious about wanting to do more than just qualify for the playoffs win. I know everyone will say that I would say this but the collision with Linnett and Westerman wasn't a penalty IMO. They came together and there was a clash of heads. Nothing more to it than that

I've seen that Castleford apparently are expected to vote against and Wakefield have changed their minds and will now vote in favour.

The more I hear Keighleys whinging the more I think that professional sport really isn't for them.

You can stick a fork in Wakefield now, they're more done than my barbequed burgers. The new stand should see the club in good stead and I should think Wakefields crowds will hold up in the Championship.

The irony of animal rights protestors using glue while protesting for animal welfare.

If Rovers can stay disciplined and are still in the game after 60 mins then they should be able to grind Hull down. Although Hull have been in poor form I'm expecting them to be lot better but if Rovers can get the game to be played on their terms then it should be a Rovers win.

Last year I would have said that this would have been a dead cert for Saints but I think Wigan will somehow squeak a win.

Some assistance to help get expansion teams up and running and to help reduce their costs would have been good, such as helping to fund travel costs or help with making it easier to put together a competitive team.

Klaus Teuber, designer of the Settlers Of Catan board game, which is now seen as a classic gateway to modern board games and making people aware that there is more to board games than Monopoly and Cluedo.

Bruno, Lewis, Benn, Eubank and Hamed are still probably bigger names with the general than the majority of current British boxers. It's probably the same with snooker as well. When I was a kid the biggest household sporting names seemed to be those from individual sports, even the top WWF stars of the day were famous names over here, everyone had heard of Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Andre The Giant etc. The top RL stars such as Schofield, Hanley & Offiah may have had a lot of name recognition within the RL heartlands amongst people who had no interest in the sport but outside of the heartlands if you weren't into RL you probably would have never heard of them. RL had always had a following outside of it's heartlands but not in anywhere enough numbers to make the top players star household names. Back in the 80s more people in the UK would probably have been more aware of William "the refrigerator" Perry and Dan Marino than the big name RL players. The lack of national attention and interest from the national media has meant that the majority of the public has never got to hear about our players.

Can you say that there has been any serious attempts to break out of the north? Admitting teams from random places and leaving them to sink or swim isn't exactly a sound strategy.

Ivo Grahams top level poophousery, Jenny Eclairs barge sailing and Frankie Boyle in a wedding dress. I would have rather heard the music in the dance task but I guess that there would have been all sorts of licensing issues. Mae Martin is just adorable and I think they will run away with this series.

Soccer Am is being cancelled! For Soccer Social! It's another reminder to us all that change is not good.

The scoreline didn't tell the full story of the game at all, even though the bulk of the squad is same as last year it is a completely different one to last year as there much more steel and resiliance to this years squad than in previous years and there has been such an improvement in the forwards. Abdulls kicking is such a weapon although I hope it isn't relied on too much as the season goes on, . If we can put our injuries behind us and keep a fit squad then I'm confident that 4th isn't beyond us.

At least this tries to have some humour in it in contrast to Keighleys petulance.

Out of curiosity I looked at the league tables from the 70s onwards and I would say at least 80-85% of the promoted teams went straight back down again so the rate of promoted teams surviving the first season hasn't been very good, which doesn't really suggest that P&R has worked that well. People point to football and say it works but I would say that football as a sport is more suited to P&R than Rugby League is, as promoted teams when they feel it is needed can grind out enough points by playing more defensively or by sitting deep and hitting teams on the counter and there is more of a chance of shock results. In RL promoted teams don't have that choice and as such are more exposed when playing the stronger teams, which is a big disadvantage in a sport where more often than not the better team usually wins. This is why IMO promoted teams ideally need more than one off season to really be able to put together a decent team but they don't get that as one bad season and they go down and all the money that was spent on trying to stay in Super League, on top of all the money spent on getting there in the first place, has been wasted.

I would trust that IMG would take being in the Championship into account when coming up with grading scores more than I would if the RFL were in charge of this.

Judging by that Wakefield fans are more upset with it than Rovers fans seem to be which is a decent reading that Rovers are getting a good player and I did like the "final dagger in the coffin" joke . Wakefield fans are seeing it as the club waving the white flag and accepting that they are going to go down.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-kr-corey-hall-wakefield-8298215 A bit out of the blue this one, but Wakefield are needing a Full Back and although I like Dagger he has been at Rovers for long enough for him to have been first choice FB by now.

I would say that a lot of teams in the RU Premiership aren't based in towns you associate with major pro sport either but With IMG on board to help build a fanbase one of the best ways is to create events that people want to go to and taking games to a bigger stadium and creating an event feel to it with bands etc is one way of doing that. This way you can market the game to RL & general sports fans who may fancy going to a game and at the same time market that other things will be going on to try to attract families who want a day out so you are targeting as wide a range of people as you can. I'm not sure I agree with teams not being big enough draws, I think most people won't really care where they are from if they produce a good game.