DI Keith Fowler

You say that mockingly but Australians love that stuff. Why I have no idea, I wouldn't want a pie in hot weather but seemingly they do.

Well to be fair it's tomorrow in Australia now. Or yesterday, I don't know. Apparently the toilets swirl the other way when you flush? Frankly I've never paid too much attention but if that's their niche I won't begrudge it.

Oh I know I was just having fun.

Photographer had a mare on that last photo.

Looks like a screenshot from a CBBC show where they've got to get the horse off the pitch in time for the big kick off.

I think if you've got a playoff structure that a kid couldn't easily fill out on a wall chart you've done something wrong.

I mean you're not wrong but it's a bit raw today. If you want to fire back can you leave us out of this and just comment on the proclivities of a certain chairman with innuendo, nuance and at times actual accusation of what they are getting up to at Chester zoo, like I do.

I don't think this is canon.

I think if you're a team that plays lots of games and changes kits often there's a value in going slightly off piste, a bit of variety from time to time. But for a team that plays so few games, and changes kits bizarrely often considering, chopping and changing like this doesnt work. The kit itself is nice, the blue is objectively fine. But we're now carrying on in a direction, like with the last kit, that departs from the plan of "slowly adopt the GB kit design over time".

https://x.com/NinhLyUK/status/2092893919482626182

Still annoys me that they called themselves Vikings. It also annoyed me when Toronto Wolfpack mogged (look it up it's 2026) Warrington on their name.

They should have called it Project Wonga.

The Nomads are getting a permanent home? The hypocrisy is off the scale.

I was baffled by this too. How can you have your permanent home a place where you only play at 4-5 times a season? Have they got mixed up?

If it's the second I hope we bite their hands off, it's getting paid £6 million for something that's in our own best interest. It's like someone paying me to mow my own lawn because they find it so unsightly.

Imagine the fallout.

If it's good for the game to be ruled by a members based organisation that operates on an invite only basis we should take it to it's logical conclusion and put the local masonic lodge in charge.

If you can charge a kick down it implies the ball is in play, therefore play should carry on from that point like when a penalty is kicked short. Not sure what it would look like in practice but it might be fun.

It seems so strange that this situation exists when so many football and rugby league clubs share grounds. You sometimes have the need to swap fixtures, or maybe a slightly ropey looking pitch now and again but not a need to to away for months every year.

It is his style I guess. They want to invest but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to extract the best possible deal for them by putting a bit of pressure on the clubs.

Phwoar stick a pony on that me old china plate.

I mean it's not exactly subtle. Are you lot all being continually fleeced when you go to flea markets or something? "Well he said his late father couldn't stand to lose it for less than 19 hundred lira so I guess that's that"

That is true, but the situation isn't one where there's any clarity over how they would ever gain access to SL going forward. Most likely they felt it was do or die. Clearly the owner decided they would underwrite the loss for the season, and maybe what we are seeing now is them deciding "no more". So yes maybe it is a deviation from what they promised but it's one that needs to be seen in context. They're not the only club dependent on a wealthy benefactor, I wonder how many would choose to pick their ball up and go home in the same circumstances.

It's exactly that. The whole situations ridiculous, if the clubs really wanted to go to 14 teams that badly they should have all took a haircut to pay for it. We can't know whether York are financially a viable SL club because they've not been given the chance to prove it. If Toulouse run into problems the same is also true. I imagine a few seemingly stable SL clubs would run into similar problems on half the central distribution.

If this is a thread to post wild unsubstantiated rumours I would like to share details of Leigh's impending financial woes caused by the chairman sinking his life savings into what he believed to be a "Leopard Colony".