Bull Mania

Oh not this the RFL are going to do Toulouse dirty only again for it to never happen. Again. It will either be the current 14 or we go to 15 with London in

Don't disagree and that is an issue with gradings. You should be graded on the ground you're playing at in the next season. I'm just of the opinion that if you're going to judge the Giants on that, you can't ignore London have played in a stadium over 40 miles away from a ground they'll be graded on. I'd prefer London in over the Giants, just of the intrigue of "can they finally get it right" i just don't take the view "kick Giants out put London in" is how a sport should be run.

And replace them with London who perform worse in many of the pillars? I get the criticism of the Giants, but then people are demanding the sport to change everything just to get London in? London have played in THREE different stadiums this year alone. What's been the biggest issue for London in 30 years? Constantly moving stadiums and not budling a base anywhere. But throw in "strategic importance" and we convince ourselves that suddenly money and big name sponsors will come flooding into the sport. I'd be intrigued to see London in SL under the current ownership. But i'm yet to be convinced they've done enough off-field that resolves many historic issues and appearing on every podcast going isn't that!

York with too much quality on the night and we just lacked composure to try wrestle the game back. Bit gutted to finish bottom as i didnt feel we deserved it. Yes i know table doesn't lie etc but injuries just completely crippled us. But im glad we stuck to exposing some of the younger players like Gill, Leake etc which should benefit us long term. Congratulations to York. Been a great season for them!

Id imagine SKY wanted a fixture on the Thursday rather than the Sunday. Bulls played Toulouse on a Saturday and then beat Cas the following Thursday.

Why do that when you could just be sneering towards a charity.

In your opinion, how daft does someone have to be to have two accounts yet use the same posting style of asking totally irrelevant questions to the points being made.

Am i missing something? Isn't this the same offer that was derided not long ago? £30million over 5 years for 50% ownership?

To be fair, Jim Lenihan has had an impact on them, certainly fitness wise. A full pre-season under him should see them much improved.

I get why ours gets stick and hopefully the pitch is widened in the off season. Not sure why Cas are getting a kicking though. Some of the most enjoyable RL games have been at Wheldon road. One of the appealing aspects of sport is the different settings a games played on. Honestly the way some go on you'd think our top clubs play at Tottenhams stadium. Leeds is my favourite away ground but you can still get wet in the away terrace. If Cas are getting pelters for their short pitch then what about all the clubs who can't play at home for several weeks during the summer while their pitch is re-laid? Saw a tweet from Doncaster that their third away game against London is at a THIRD different stadium.

Personally disagree. An Extra fixture between the top teams may be negligible, although personally feel one 20k sell-out is better than two attendances of 16k & 17k for example. But what about the other extra fixtures against the teams that have had a tough year and are towards the bottom. I think over a period of time, playing teams 3 times, plus cup (likelihood of playing same teams increased due to reduced SL sides) and then play-offs/GF would see a decline. What problem do we think 10 teams is going to solve? is it crowds? then are we suggesting ditch London, the French and just have the 10 highest supported clubs? Nonsense. The myth of every game being competitive and meaningful? A ten team format will still have dead rubbers, teams struggling, injury ravaged etc

No they wouldn't stop watching it. But Saturdays game wouldn't have sold out if they played each other 6 weeks earlier. Also Wigan Leeds was only a big game as they are both top of the table. When Warrington were 9th last year, they weren't a team everybody wanted to see. You'll still get rubbish, unattractive games with a ten team league as you'll still get teams struggling, out of the play-offs, rebuilding next year etc. Difference is you have to endure that fixture 3 times.

Do you like loop fixtures Jodie?

York & Toulouse were the only clubs that benefitted from RFL changing the rules/format half way through last year. Yes they had half central distribution, but it was around half a million more than they would have had in the champ and i'm sure they'd rather play Wigan, Leeds, Hull than London, Goole & Midlands. And for the same point being made about finishing positions. If the rules were on field promotion, Bulls, York, Toulouse, even Fev/Widnes's squads would likely have looked very different as they all would have thrown money at short term signings to try get out of the division. Fev lost 2 games in the entire 2023 season but didn't get promoted as London, who barely made the play-offs, won 2 knock-out games. Many would deem that unfair but they were the rules.

Irony of talking about others having an agenda...