TBone

yes… they don’t do much towards stopping the brain rattling around inside the skull.this can happen in any collision but the severity/risks go up if the head is directly involved in the collision. hence the need to also reduce conntact sessions in training. (you would need something like some of the cycling helmets that give more dampenning. i’ve had a couple of nasty crashes on my bike and i can vouch that they work! in both cases the helmet was trashed but, when examined, was told i didn’t have any concussion symptoms, downside they tend to be a bit bulkier - not to be the best fashion statement , and they are single incident only. one high tech helmet is a coller that has sensors so it can detect a ‘bad’ collision and inflate the collar to surround the head - could be entertaining seeing two props collide then suddenly their heads disappear )

worse than that - they’re all paid per word!

in a job, yes. earning money, hmmm

And Dufty to Wire explains the accelerated offload of Cooper to wigan - surely to make the cap space and cover widdop’s abscence.

For most fixed penalty offences in law you are given the opportunity to challenge them in court. You are, however, informed that if you lose, your sanction will be increased. I see no difference here - to plead not guilty a second time was absolutely absurd. I could maybe see merit in challenging the sanction if there was evidence that it was excesssive. Either way, it is and has been clear for a long time that submitting an appeal includes jeopardy if you fail and should do so to deter the system being flooded with groundless appeals.

This does not say that the ball is out of the scrum WHEN it emerges from between and behind the inner feet of the second row forwards. Only that it has to emerge from the scrum only AFTER passing between their feet etc.

What caught my eye was the statement that IMG "bought into our vision for the Super League competition and the sport of rugby league as a whole" based on the "RFL Strategic Plan 2022-2030"? Or is there another document hiding somewhere?

Let me guess… you’re a motivational speaker! I can just imagine the coach before the first game “okay new guys, this is your chance to fail. You know you can do it - go out and achieve!”. Maybe this is the ‘new’ apprach that wigan have been trying out - it would explain a lot.

Or perhaps he's just doing what his coach wanted him to do. Stuart said that the game plan was to take them on up the middle and that's what they did.