DI Keith Fowler

Interestingly no, Elite Sport Pro is a completely different outfit who are in effect Oxen.

I imagine it's whoever still has Hummel, so Wigan and Hull FC. Wakey went to Ellgren, as did Fev obviously. Wigan especially like to be associated with a non-RL semi-premium/premium brand (Hummel, Errea, Puma, Patrick (lol), Nike, Adidas). I imagine they'd be looking towards Macron given their involvement in RU and Catalans already.

Feels like it wasn't one of those ones where the manufacturer gives the club 3 designs to choose from, more Leigh dictated to them what they wanted. They don't want to shout from the rooftops if they're understandably not keen on it.

I'm glad to see they're keeping with the hurricane swirl type design on the shirt. What can be tacky as a one-off can become synonymous if persisted with. See Harlequins, Stade Francais.

Got to give it to them, they've done well to get to that figure. I was a tad worried when England didn't make the final. Still short of the 74k at the 2013 final but I don't really buy that figure having gone to that game, plus tickets were obviously much more expensive this time round (think I got two tickets for £30 for that one) so will have generated a better profit.

I'm sorry it's this kind of thing that's keeping the threads going. Making out that being consistently mocked on social media is in fact great PR is just another version of the banal truism that "any publicity is good publicity". If you think IMG are looking at what's happened here and purring I think you've fundamentally misunderstood them, and if you think Derek's orchestrated this whole thing intentionally I need to tell you about the emperors newest robes.

Love this. I'm all for learning about the famous Administrating Rimmers. The brothers Ralph, Rob, Ryan, Reg, and who could forget Ralph (pronounced like Ralph Feinnes).

For those of you who don't speak French like I do I can tell you Le Coq Sportif is French for the sporting coq (?) in English.

I have it on good authority that Ralph is going for the job. He has cunningly swapped the first letter of his first name and surname round on the application form to avoid detection.

York's a nice weekend. Not that Blackpool can't be just not in the same way I suppose. It's probably the last one anyway so it's all a bit immaterial.

Cold out was it?

OK, it's just from my perspective we did this at Widnes 10 years ago and dropped it because it becomes impossible to administrate when people cancel over the off season. If you impose a 12 month term you're just doing what pretty much every team offers for season tickets which is just installments.

See you soon.

Do you think this sort of thing helps Leigh's cause? A material superiority over the division below as well as a moral superiority over the division above.