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Cheadle Leyther

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  1. I think you’ll find that the Sun, Daily and Sunday Mirror, People and Star do give match reports and previews. Indeed the Daily Star describes itself on the front page as THE Rugby League newspaper.What irks me is the slavish coverage of Union in the so called quality papers of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mail and yes Guardian. This in a sport that has had its top division reduced to only 9 clubs. Moreover attendances at both codes teams are quite similar. I know it’s often said ours is a Northern sport, but look at their spread- 3 in the South West, 2 In the Midlands, 2 in London and 2 in whole of the North-hardly the whole country. I’m afraid the closure of the northern offices of these newspapers many years ago has led to this situation. It is especially disappointing with regards to the Guardian which of course started off as the Manchester Guardian. Oh for my Neville Cardus of long ago!!
  2. The only way we avoid Hull KR away is if we get to the final!!
  3. I don’t think you should be skating other team ‘s owners in your position.
  4. I know why his upset. 3 high tackles by Leeds and no action taken, while in the previous home match Amone gets 2 matches for an accidental clash of heads. Also in his indecent haste to disallow the Hanley try, he never checked another angle to see if his right foot was in the air rather than on the line.
  5. The League Express scoreboard this week showed only 2 clubs wishing to state their attendance figure. The usual culprits included Batley and York, but now joined by Bradford, Fax and Keighley, although the latter did give a figure for last week against Bradford (an impressive 3,729) But yet again the most disappointing ‘not available’ came from Hull KR, despite it looking like another full house. Thank goodness the fixtures last week didn’t include a home Hull KR match!! The publishing of crowd figures helps to underline the current mood of optimism, so it’s very disappointing trend started last year appears to be happening again.
  6. Why were they put in a group including Wakefield? They should have been in Doncaster’s group instead of Sheffield.
  7. Don’t know why, but we seemed to have gone away from passing movements to both wings. I thought I was watching a Union team with all those useless short kicks near the opposition line. Reminded me of Reynolds last season/ he was an expert at this, although we are going to miss his goalkicking. Hope that Tom Amone can calm down. Seem to get targeted last night and did not seem to like it.
  8. This is a headline on the Serious about Rugby League website, apparently lamenting the final on June 8 will clash with the rugby union grand final on at the same time and date. What a load of B. S.!! It will only help to emphasise the difference in quality of League over Union and am willing to believe that we will easily win the battle for viewers, especially being on BBC 1.
  9. As it stands per the printed fixture list in the League Express, 19 of the 27 rounds are showing 3 games or more on a Friday night. This obsession with Friday night games really annoys me as a Leigh fan as it means we always have to miss watching the live Sky match that night. Of the 13 home matches allocated, there are 11 on Friday, 1 on Thursday, 1 on Saturday afternoon but not 1 on a Sunday. So if in future if TV demands lead to changes away from Friday nights, then so be it!
  10. Has anyone else noticed that the Challenge Cup Final on June 8 next year is the same date and kick off time as the Rugby Union Premiership Final? What’s the betting thatTNT sports will be after changing that to around 5pm to avoid getting decimated TV figures??!!
  11. And also during the second half transmission, the latest football scores were emblazoned at the bottom of the screen while the match was in progress!
  12. Apparently the kick offs will be 17,30. Going off that, and the League Express fixture list the BBC games will be :- Feb 17 Catalans v Warrington, Feb 24 Giants v St Helens Mar 2 Leeds v Catalans Mar 9 Catalans v Hull Mar 16 Catalans v Cas Mar 30 Salford v Leigh May 6 Leigh v Cas May 11 Catalans v Leeds May 25 Catalans v Warrington June 1 Hull KR v Leigh But the Catalans home games might be their normal kick off times. Take say 4 of these out and you get the first tranche of 6 games to May 11, with the rest to be decided later in the season.
  13. The whole season of 1981/2, when a Leigh team containing mainly local lads won the title with only 5 defeats - unlikely to happen again with no academy allowed.
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