Man of Kent

No, just the minor premiership

Delicious.

Power cut in Leigh? Who knew they even had electricity?

It’s not how you start, chief. 14th is a bit poo.

Mind blown by 30k members. Hope the team performs as well ‘cos, let’s be honest, they’ve been a bit poo.

Anyone else see the ‘Championship Chairman Arrested’ headline and just knew it would be Fev? Bit of a scuzz club, sorry.

Spot on, FI. Sport is about players. No players, no sport.

I think there’s a lot of truth in that but is it necessarily a bad thing that dreamers are less dreamy? Perhaps the British professional rugby league garden would be rosier if it had tended to its existing plants better, instead of planting ever more exotic species in the same thin soil. Maybe we should ask whether expanding the game’s professional footprint with clubs who tend to have the smallest gates and the furthest distances makes financial sense when resources are scarce. I want to see rugby league flourish in new places as much as the next TRL poster - I play for a newly-created south London masters side - but that doesn’t necessarily mean professional clubs.

Well, if the aim is sustainability in a world of ever reducing central funding and no TV deal then guaranteed fixtures between, say, Workington & Whitehaven or Batley & Dewsbury might be the way forward. Just an idea anyway, I’m not precious about this stuff.

Sure. Lancashire/Cheshire/Cumbria/North Wales/Cornwall + a few west of West Yorkshire in A. Rest of West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Newcastle, Midlands, London and France in B. It wouldn’t be anally rigid borders, same as geographic divisions in football leagues aren’t rigid. Pragmatism etc.

Well, it wouldn’t be hard to come up with two purposefully loose regional conferences (you might have to use the M1 as a dividing line for the West Yorkshire clubs). I can see the attraction from a local derby/gate revenue POV.

Could a Championship of 2 x 12 conferences work? East & West?

'North Sea White'

Feels a bit like 2018 when they hit form at the back end of the season.

Fair enough!

For the Ashes revival, I hope it is GB, particularly now we have established the women’s (and wheelchair) game. We need all the players we can get!

Well, she’d know. I’m reminded of the EFL deal, which will effectively replace iFollow with a new Sky streaming platform.

Oops. Louis Senior. Pants?

Innes Senior. Pants?

A reyt spanking.

Probably needs to be that thick to fit in the carppy ‘Transformer’ crest. Not bad, not good. Bang average.

It's great to see New Zealand turning league.

I imagine SL looks at the free-to-air games more or less as a 'non-profit' venture that brings little-to-no revenue but enhances national profile at little-to-no cost (as Sky are covering production costs). Good to read OurLeague will be revamped "akin to a TV channel".

Manly vs Souths & Roosters v Brisbane double-header to take place on Sat 2nd March https://www.nrl.com/vegas