Eddie

There’s a lot of Saints and Wigan fans in Cumbria.

Or one trip, as it was before this season. Meanwhile they expect Cats to pay for every trip.

Yes but the grading could easily be weighted to garner a particular outcome. Not that I’m suggesting it was of course.

Got Bradford into SL with the full cash while the two teams that finished ahead of them only get half?

Why has the Pennine League folded?

There are a few green shoots around the country mate, but it’s very hard work and there is very little support from the RFL.

Same as Liverpool.

Sarah Lancashire?

Unless Barrow had 300 home fans yesterday.

Yes I was just perusing the finals, there were some good crowds, three in a row over 8k between 2009 and 2011, and 9,400 for KR v Cas in 2005.

I hate to change the subject, but anyone know how many were at Barrow today?

Actually I suggested a stand alone to enhance the women’s event further, not to diminish it. Also I’m a sample of one admittedly, but I usually go to the CC final and only once have I stayed back for the 1895. If it was before the main event I’d probably have watched all of them.

Hopefully. I’d move the women’s game to its own venue on a different day and have the 1895 before the CC final.

So that’s around 8,000 sold then, hopefully they can get close to capacity for the opener.

Looks good. As this is RL I’ll say something negative though; it’s a shame it’s been left so long to come out, it would have provided some interesting close season content.

I thought this was going to be a thread about Atlantic 252.

St Nicholas’ in Great Yarmouth, which I think (happy to be proven wrong) is the largest parish church in England, is also a great religious building that isn’t a cathedral. Maybe they deserve their own thread! Edit - I was wrong, it’s the third biggest after Beverley Minster and Christchurch Priory.

Can’t believe I’ve only just seen this thread, I love cathedrals. Any list is just a matter of opinion though, there isn’t a bad one and everyone has their favourites for different reasons, we’re so lucky to have so many fabulous specimens in the UK also.

The new tv scoreboard is terrible, almost as terrible as Wayne Mardle’s excitable pub bore punditry. Other than that I’m enjoying this evening’s arrers.

Do you view value to SL purely in terms of home attendances?

Ah fair enough, I got my 1990s Doncaster kits timeline mixed up, an amateur mistake.

I can’t see FC getting anywhere near the final. I’d like it if they did though, a strong Hull FC is good for the game, I tend to think they should be one of the biggest 4 clubs.

Yes and they also changed their colours to red and black for that season iirc, a great way to engage with the fans.

Can you believe there are actually people who don’t think Barrow is in Lancashire??

I used to play football on their pitch as well.