Derwent

Stockley and Gormley makes sense as the subs against Australia as they both played in the starting 13 in the previous match away at Barrow.

https://rugbyreplay.co.uk/Widnes-v-Australia-1986-Rugby-League-Programme

From the match programme…does that ease your confusion @Wigan Riversider

As my grandad used to say “its like somebody stomping over’t landing”.

Trevor Stockley and Ian Gormley

Let’s be honest here, this has been an absolutely terrible season and absolutely shambolic. We have effectively finished bottom as the only 2 below us are the clubs who had 12 points deducted.

Give over, you should walk it. A team motivated to carry their form into the play offs against a team that is already thinking about their holidays and at least half of who won't be here next year. Haven by 20.

Wasn't he exposed as actually being from Chorley but pretending to be an Aussie from Sydney ?

Not if players are already contracted.

I think he’s called David Dickson, comes from an extremely wealthy family. I’m sure someone on here will know the full story about him.

If they use the fixture wheel system again next year then unfortunately Newcastle will pay a heavy price for their one good season. They will have the toughest possible fixture list without the same quality of players. They have been hung out to dry.

One of the journos, I think it was Aaron Bower but could have been someone else, said on one of the RL podcasts that he had spoken to the new York owner directly and he was clear that he had no appetite to carry on funding a second club and the whole pathway thing was very much the pet project of the previous owner and not something he was interested in doing.

My 2nd favourite sport, but it is dying in the UK. Only 15 teams now, 6 in the Premiership and 9 in the Championship (8 next year when Workington quit the league), but half of the riders ride for a club in each league as there is a shortage. The UK clubs can't afford the stars of the sport from Poland etc these days. Poland is the place to be for speedway riders - the crowds at some clubs are higher than the top Polish football clubs. We do have 2 genuinely world class riders in Dan Bewley and Robert Lambert though, both in the top 5 in the world. Most UK teams are made up of British riders who aren't good enough to race in Poland, young Aussies who come over here to make a name for themselves in the hope of getting a move to Poland, and the odd aging top rank foreign rider who is topping up the pension fund.

A couple of RL journos reckon its purely financial - this season Newcastle have cost York in the region of £750k to run and the new owner does not want to continue doing that. Simple as that.