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This was my first ever live wheelchair game and got to say it was a great experience. The speed and skills - especially from Catalans - is just incredible to watch close-up.

Cardiff Demons. Real potential there to get them into and firmly established in Women's Super League. Create a real strong base for the Welsh women's game. Use this as a 'reverse model' to then look at establishing a professional men's team later in the city too.

It will soon be Grimethorpe arguing with fans of Brighouse & Rastrick over who has the shinest eupohoiums for an extra 0.5 points next... https://www.4barsrest.com/articles/2023/2043.asp

Great to see Castleford hosting an international match.

Good to have you back Ralph, we’ve missed you as our leader.

France are going to play Kenya, At Rugby League. In Kenya. How anyone can find this anything other than amazing in the current s***show state of international rugby league is beyond me.

Hopefully they'll take notice when sponsors pull out due to lack of social engagement and a poor on-field product that gets nilled when they actually bother to play

I tell you once and I tell you flatly, I don't ever wanna go to Gatley I don't even wanna go to Batley... where is that place exactly?

If only... we could have had a World Four Nations based off the last World Cup... World Series: Four semi-finalists from World Cup - Australia, Samoa, England, New Zealand World Championship: Other four from Quarter Finals - PNG, Tonga, Lebanon, Fiji Two of those series played before next World Cup. World Cup of 12 teams - 3 groups of four. Top two plus two best runners up make quarters and then the next set of Four Nations starts. Gives even more added incentive to make the quarters and can justify having those 8 pre-qualify for next world cup. If only... oh well.

You beat me to it trawling through the IntRL website Looks like we got the same countries and shows how crazy this currently is.

There's 18 full members according to this https://www.intrl.sport/member-nations/ With those already qualified that leaves... Americas: Jamaica Asia-Pacific: Cook Islands Europe: France, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia MEA: South Africa There'll need to be some seriously quick form-filling going on by the likes of Brazil, Ghana, USA etc by March 2023 to actually create qualifiers outside of Europe.

This whole thing is rubbish but Wales do get a chance to qualify - they are full members and so should take part in the European qualifying tournament (with the winner going through to the World Series bit).

A farce would be the highest level of professional Rugby League in this country playing each other 2.5 times (plus play-offs).

It’s brilliant that there will a big rematch in an arena - but yeah there really should have been a game in London too (we never learn).

Why can’t we ever just make life clear and simple? You would think the SH would have 2 x tri-nations - allowing one of the ‘top’ nations to tour over here each year. Instead we have the Aus coach saying they will have a four nations next year… when it should be Samoa over here. Unless he’s talking rubbish of course?