Celtic Roosters

Why have markings on the pitch then if they are irrelevant. Right that's enough for me. I don't even take Rugby League that seriously any more.

The clue to expansion working is to get RL development officers in schools in these areas and get community clubs going in those area's then build up from the foundations. It won't happen because there is no serious money in RL. What there is gets eaten up by Super Greed.

I disagree and momentum is a lie. If you pass the ball backwards it will not end up in front of the player who passes, because momentum applies to the player as well as the ball. In any case, they are not moving that fast.

Never mind. I don't care that much to argue about this point.

Thanks for the young man - I'm 69 but my eyesight is is still pretty good. I stand by my observations and more would if they were honest. Many people I speak to agree but keep quiet.

Great - get them into League 1 for next season and lets see what happens? They can't get people to play RL in Bolton and Liverpool. I live in Salford and most people are unaware of the problems the RL club are going through. I know I'm ranting now but it really does break my heart to admit the RL is always going to be a minority sport. At least I can say I did my bit.

The nearest RL activity to Bristol of any decent standard is in South Wales. A lot of great work was done in Devon and Cornwall but the guy who was mainly responsible for that has given up now and has got involved in non league football. You have met me Styx and you will know that I have always actively supported RL expansion. I visited Oxford and All Golds - both soul destroying. I have watched RL at 3 grounds in Coventry, Ipswich Rhinos, South Norfolk Saints and hundreds of games in North and South Wales etc, etc. I'm too old now but I have given up on RL expansion anyway. RL participation peaked in the mid 80's and I have all the data to prove that (League tables etc) but RL, even though it's the greatest sport on Earth to me, is minority sport and always will be.

I went to watch Bristol Sonics once and would say they could compete (at that time) in NCL division 3. They played out of a Rugby Union club. I'm not aware of any other RL in Bristol? South Wales is probably the closest area to Bristol that has a actual Rugby League, and every attempt to run a semi-pro club down there has failed so I can't see it working in Bristol either. I've always actively supported expansion clubs but have just about given up now. MASWARLA had had a thriving RL back in the 70's and 80's but it didn't last.

They do miss obvious forward passes. There is rarely a set of 6 in any game I have seen where a forward pass is not ignored. I don't believe that any referee is bent against one club or another and I don't believe that they are all visually impaired either. Therefore, I believe that they are instructed to ignore forward passes unless it's blindingly, ridiculously, obvious. Touch judges might as well just sit on a bench and come on only to award conversions, or not.

Great to see Salford fans having something to cheer about today for a change and forget about the financial problems for a short while. A well deserved victory over Castleford too.

Really pleased for the Salford fans and it was a well deserved victory too.

I'm past caring now. I started giving my collection of over 9,000 away over a year ago and still have several hundred left now. Nobody wants them. I've managed to help a few people with their collections, so I'm pleased with that, and the furthest anybody has travelled to come and collect programmes from my house is from Walsall. I sent all my Runcorn programmes to a guy in Cornwall? I attend very few RL games now but I stick by my rule that I won't attend a game unless i can buy a physical programme. I generally leave it on a bus, tram or train on the way home in the hope that it might get somebody interested in the game. Strangely enough, I "ground hop" non league football now (only if a programme is on sale) and if I'm going to a ground that is in the vicinity of a RL club I take the programmes of that club with me and just put them on a table with a note saying they are free and they get snapped up every time. Not just by locals either. Football ground hoppers from way down South are fascinated by them. I took a load of Keighley programmes to Silsden FC and they were taken by a visitor from Brighton. Hopefully he might give London Broncos a look?

Salford by 10.

It's a rum do alright. Seems to be causing a bit of a todo everywhere but in Salford?

The mainstream media is clearly not that interested in Rugby League as far as I can see, and I don't think many people outside of Salford would care if they did fold mid season, but it's the financial implications if the RFL can't deliver the agreed number of TV games agreed that would cause the problems and the embarrassment to the sport. I wouldn't compare it with Cornwall anyway. The RFL isn't really interested in anything below Super Greed.