17 stone giant

Haven't heard Ryan Hall speak before. He comes across really well. Very interesting to listen to.

Very well played Hull KR. Excellent performance. Enjoyable game.

3-0 now. Done and dusted.

Good luck to Leeds tonight. Get another 3pts towards making that top 2 place secure.

Fair enough. I don't completely disagree with you about 3 test series, although The Ashes is the one series that I would retain as three matches. i like Four Nations events because you don't have teams missing a week and it adds more variety and more matches. I appreciate that's probably not possible or feasible this year though. I probably would also even have preferred a Tri-Nations with England, France and Samoa, but I guess that too takes longer than is available. Unless you could tinker with it a bit. Would playing twice in a week be too much, even allowing for the fact that France are not at the same level as Eng/Samoa? Tue - England vs France Sat - England vs Samoa Wed - Samoa vs France Sun - Final

I obviously disagree, because although I won't be batting my eyelids at anything, I would find it a bit unsatisfactory if it ended 1-1. But there's no right or wrong answer - it's just an opinion, and I'm happy if everyone else feels differently. I will just ask though, would you feel the same way if The Ashes was a two match series, with the potential to be decided by aggregate score?

You make it sound as though wanting a decisive winner is a weird thing. I think it's more abnormal to set things up with a fair chance of things ending in a draw at 1-1. As I said, if it's 2-0, there's no great problem with it. But I'm wondering what the narrative would be and how it would look to viewers on tv, if after the 2nd test England had just played very well to level the series. Would there not be people asking why there is no decider? And I'm not sure that telling them "oh we'll just add up the points from the two games to produce a winner" is going to be particularly impressive.

I'm opting for Hull KR vs Wigan. 5th at home to 3rd. Only 2 pts between them in the table. Another chance to see Mikey Lewis.

I will be watching Hull KR vs Wigan.

It's one of those frustrating situations because if it goes to 2-0, I do think that a third test can feel a bit pointless. But if it goes to 1-1, I would like a decisive 3rd test. Otherwise it's unfinished business.

Sky show five replays of it and you miss the live action of the next tree falling. That's why I've cancelled my Sky Lumberjack channel subscription.

A bit clunky though, isn't it? "Lancashire and The West are on the attack...but great defending by Yorkshire and The East."

Fair enough.

Slightly off topic, but are the Aussies missing a trick by playing their State of Origin on a Wednesday instead of a Saturday? Would they not have a better chance of getting a global audience if they moved it? I just looked up the dates, but it's 1105am on three Wednesdays, so I didn't bother adding it to my calendar. Whereas I would definitely watch it if it was on a Saturday. I'm sure they have their own reasons, but I wonder if in future they'll consider playing it at the weekend.

After reading all the posts, I've reached the conclusion that none of the rep ideas will work. It therefore has to be done through the clubs. That's where the strong allegiances are. I like the idea of Magic, but I would tinker with it. I'd try splitting it with Saturday in one city and Sunday in another. Or two successive Saturdays, perhaps. At the moment I don't think it's being taken around the country enough, and I think a lot of cities wouldn't be able to do the two days, hence my suggestion for splitting it. Let's have a day in Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, etc.