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Olpherts generally looks entirely disinterested, too casual by half. A bit of concentration and he'd have had two tries on Sunday with very little effort.

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It drives me mad the way they use click-bait.

No he doesn't.

Webb reminds me of former Rover, Danny Baker in terms of enthusiasm and he’s got pace for a back-rower. He looks like he really wants to play, massively impressive.

I used to be able to listen to live commentary on RoversTV, which I pay for annually, that's now been removed and if I want any live updates, I've to pay £8. I appreciate the club has to make money, but they seem oblivious to providing a service ethat's already been sold and paid for. Unless of course, this still exosts and they've just hiddne it somewhere on the website, the RoversTV link is just a 404 error now.

And IMG points.

Oh I know, I just don't see it in him. The effort is generally there, but everyone goes on about what he creates, which seems to be very little. I'll have to watch some games back on RoversTV.

I think I'm in a minority that thought he was pretty underwhelming. Most folk I speak to see something that I don't in Addy.

39 year old Harrison Hanson been released by Toulouse... If Hull don't go for him, it would be about right for us!

Always a danger when a player is settled at aclub for years, he might never quite get to the same level for a new club.

If that's the criteria for signings we'll have a squad of about 150!

Then you must be right.

As someone in a similar position, you absolutely cannot say that with any certainty.

Oh sorry, I read it as an insinuation rather than a genuine question, it came across that way, perhaps I’m overly cynical. Once you’ve seen their accounts, let us know if it’s the fault of the Whitehaven board. In the meantime let’s sit back and let them go under, that’ll teach ‘em. You’re presumably running a household with fairly static income and expenditure and hopefully you also have the luxury of a savings buffer. Running a semi professional RL club is, I imagine, less predictable. Whitehaven aren’t the first and won’t be the last in this situation. No doubt sometimes it’s entirely the fault of the club’s board and other times it’s entirely outside their control. I suspect it’s generally somewhere in the middle.

There are a multitude of factors involved and it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise. All companies make projections based on many factors and these income projections dictate spend. Projections don’t always come to fruition for various reasons, but perhaps you always get it right…

Yes

Sorry, I was unclear, I'm not necessarily referring to the legal cases, merely pointing out that to entirely mitigate the chance of ending up with early onset dementia, or MND or any one of a number of other brain-injury related ilnesses, not playing an impact sport is your only option. As a fan and former player (and junior coach) of both forms of rugby, there is a small part of me that wonders whether it's worth the risk. But for me at least, for what rugby has given me for over 50 years, I think it probably is.

There is a great deal of sense in that, the majority of damage is when the brain hits the inside of the skull, which is why headguards really aren't a solution. In my opinion though, there is no solution. Both forms of rugby are impact sports and if that impact is removed, there is no rugby left. The only way to completely mitigate the risk of brain injury is to not play rugby.

Apologies, I missed the work 'training'! However, overall, I'd still say there was more head contact across all aspects of RL than RU back then; which is when many of the people currently suffering from the effects were playing & training.

Having played both in the 80's and 90's (then RU into the 2010's), I took far more head contact in league than union. At amateur level, so many tackles were high in RL it was incredible.

So does that mean that all tickets sold before 7pm tonight are full price and the proceeds to Wakefield? I'm not suggesting this isn't a good gesture, just trying to understand how it would work. Hope it raises a great deal for Whitehaven, I don't subscribe to the notion that 'they overspent, it's their own fault', all clubs have been there at some point.

I paused it (and rewound it) on the TV (I'm direct with Sky) but when the live stream ended, it just went off. I paused it 20 minutes from the end and intended to watch it half an hour later, but I assume as soon as the live stream ended, it just went back to the SS+ menu.

Ben Reynolds is playing out of his skin since he returned.

Next on my list!