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386 at Bedford vs Eastern Rhinos today and they were charging £7 admission. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1235462935254548&set=a.743738261093687 I wonder if they can maintain this all season, because apparently they are trying to get the League One spot that Cornwall vacated.

NRL are recruiting 3 full-time and 4 part-time development officers in PNG: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1249871393804935&set=a.522071996584882

627 at Sheffield. Terribly low, but at least they still publish their figures. Gledhill wrote on twitter that Oldham broke their attendance record, without actually saying how many were there...

Try for Mark Nawaqanitawase, Dom Young's replacement. He is probably not getting his spot back any time soon. How long until the "return to SL" rumours begin?

10,240 at Wire vs Saints

Is this a list of matches only involving Aus/GB? Because in 2004 Aus played NZ at Loftus Road in front of 16,725 fans. Again 2009 at the Stoop: 12,360

I am shocked to see Laguerre has only scored 8 tries. I could have sworn I'd watched 3 games this season where he scored at least a hat-trick. Great stats, well done!

I lost track (and interest) long ago with USARL, with their seven factions and constant in-fighting.

It's true, AFL kills NRL when it comes to crowds, we have known that for years. It is good to see NRL crowds on the rise and a record broken without them even particularly trying either. For example, if they were to do a rivals round, like SL do, they would even break this new record. Broncos v Cowboys at Suncorp, would be a guaranteed 50k.

So it's a bit of a flawed system then.

Again, it is never that clear cut. What about an ankle tap for example? Josh Dugan saved an entire World Cup with one? Did it count as a missed tackle?

I used to be the ad hoc stats man for my team and this was always a tricky one. I am not sure what the official stat men in SL and NRL do but I noticed NRL is getting more complex. They have missed tackles and in another column they jow have "ineffective tackle", which I am not certain what it is (is it the last man in / borderline flop? And if so, do they get a point in both their 'tackle' and 'ineffective tackle' tallies? I used to give the "Nathan Hindmarshes" 0.5 whenever they were last man in or made a minimal contribution to the tackle, so they would need two of those in order to get one tackle added to their tally. Your example above about a takedown but grip was not maintained, for me that is a tackle if he was taken down and his team-mates just had to lay hands on him for the tackle to be complete. If you get stepped by your opposite number, and are left floundering, that too is a missed tackle. But I know it is rarely that clear-cut. It is a tough job for sure and never paints a completely accurate picture of how well each player played.

Also Cardiff are basically the Welsh national team.

It exists as an NRL initiative in PNG and the Pacific. Not outside that, and none run by the IRL. ERL once upon a time ran loads of coaching and ref courses across Europe, and also gave out some equipment as part of that. But that has long stopped. I think the programme ran from 2015-2017.

Dodd made his debut and got 23 minutes of game time. Did anyone see how he went?

So I believe that gives us a 12,049 aggregate so far, while still waiting for the Fev-York figure.

1,613 at Batley - Hunslet. Widnes - Oldham anyone?

I would say by targeting France, Wales, PNG, they are trying to get tier 2 nations eventually competing with tier 1. Targeting an African nation I suppose will be a more grassroots-oriented approach.

This is very encouraging, crowds are up 11.3% on 2024 and that is before this weekend's expected record-breaking round.

They have done some great work, but at some point they need to make the leap to all-year-round Rugby League. Playing over the summer (RU off-season) will only ever get you so far. I think France, Serbia, Greece, Czech are currently the only ones that play year-round, in mainland Europe.

Don't the Saints fans get an entire stand to themselves? So hopefully no need to lose any seats, for the sake of segregation.