Billy King's Boots

Oldham are chucking a bucket of cash at it aka "The Toronto Model" - we all know how that ended Word from the sheds is that they're going full time next year Good if you have bottomless pockets.

There are some teams in League one chucking buckets of cash at players. Some are doing better than us - and some decidedly worse. Hornets have always done the best we can with whatever we've got and I don't see that any different now.

Serious question: what is it about the match-day experience you don't like? Hornets holds up well against every other club in League 1 and as good as some in the Championship. No club in this division has money to blow on pre-match/half-time 'entertainment', so I'm not sure what you expect from match-day. I don't know what you think is 'rotting' - but the club's in as good shape as it's been for a while. What would you suggest to improve things?

Historically: Apisai Toga. World class. Modern Era: Paul Crook. Captained Rochdale Hornets to two trophies and equalled the club's points record.

We were at the game last Friday and seriously contemplated standing on the hill and watching for nowt. Our observations were that there's absolutely nothing around the ground, so don't get there early. And the floodlights are embarrassingly poor.

This. Legroom is worse than Old Trafford - and that's worse than Ryanair.

I saw us thrash Dewsbury last weekend. They were awful. Haven for the win.

Worky by 30 Hornets by 18 Crusaders by 8 Whitehaven by 12

Abingdon is also in the running for the lowest capacity stand in world Rugby League.

I went to the inaugural game, and been to a couple since. It's absolutely fantastic - a great RL day out, and a genuinely well-conceived/designed stadium built with supporter comfort/viewing in mind. The new Sydney Football Stadium is pretty close too - great sightlines from everywhere.

Best for sightlines/facilities is CommBank Stadium. Best for authentic RL heritage is Henson Park, closely followed by Lidcombe Oval, with Bramley a close third. Best for Atmosphere was Central Park when it was rammed. Best for a day trip is Workington or Whitehaven: drive through the lakes, bit of lunch lovely. Best for a few days away = Edinburgh Worst for sightlines/facilities = Whitebank, Sheffield, Wentworth Park (just move that bl00dy greyhound scoreboard) and, since the development, Shark Park Cronulla: all the General Admission views are compromised. Worst for authentic RL heritage is either Salford Community Stadium or Sheffield Worst for atmosphere = Alexander Stadium, Birmingham or Stade Ernest Argeles in Blagnac Worst for a a day trip is Barrow. Worst for a few days away = Blackpool

Dewsbury by 40 Goole by 6 Haven by 12 Midlands by 12 And Hornets to win the Andy Mazey Derby by 14

Their end-game will be to merge all teams west of the pennines into a massive regional superclub. Similarly all the clubs east of the pennines, and the three cumbrian clubs. Midlands, London and Cornwall will all be merged into a Southern superclub - and we'll have four massive clubs playing each other five times a season in some massive National Four Regions competition until we all die of boredom.

They were out at Manchester Rugby Union, if my ailing memory serves me correctly. I have one of their hoodies in the wardrobe somewhere.

Clubs set the environment, values, expactations and attitudes. Players buy into that and drive it, creating a culture of joint purpose, collective effort, recognition of contribution and unity. One or two clubs out there with particularly dysfunctional/toxic cultures ATM - and that breeds disharmony, disaffection and fragmentation (looking at Keighley and Fev here).

It's like Rugby League - but for fat lads, or lads with no pace or skill.

The Cornish Pirates are the Rugby Union side. Cornwall RLFC's nickname is The Choughs

Keighley as bad as Hornets were ruthless today. Hornets clinical, their big pack bullied the Cougars all over the park. Despite Keighley's best efforts to decapitate Hornets' Lewis Else (an act of willful thuggery deliberately designed to incapacitate Hornets' playmaker), Hornets just shifted up through the gears and left the Cougars chasing shadows. Great hat-trick from Hornets MOM Luke 'The Nuke' Forber - including an 80 metre effort that left lead-footed Cougars stranded in his wake. Keighley all over the place - some big issues to iron-out at Lawkholme Lane.

"We've spent more than we're capable of raising in revenue to build a squad we can't afford, to gamble on staying in the championship, though we might go bust trying: instead of building a squad we can afford, that might lose a few more games. But if we do tank, we'll end up there anyway, having burned a shedload of cash we couldn't afford"? Take that business plan to Dragon's Den, lads.

Since the end of last season, The Dale have played on the pitch over a dozen times and Hornets once. Proof if any were needed that football ruins the pitch

Ah, the 'shield within a shield' solution as invented by Burnley FC...

He had one serious injury last season - and that was when he was cynically targeted by Keighley. And he's worth every penny.

He's super predictable. Runs left, kicks right. On more than two occasions on Wednesday, all the momentum of an Oldham move was going to your right edge and Dean went back against the current to no prevail. And you can read his last tackle kicks in braille.

Hornets two missed conversions away from beating an Oldham side that's spent money like a drunken sailor. And there are zero replies? This forum is dead.