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Totally agree with your thoughts on the grading in this podcast @Martyn Sadler next year has the potential to be a farce which ends in the courtroom rather than on the field.

Apologies, assumed you were in England

I understand your points but it's important you seek as much advice and help as you can I think. Acorn tenants union may be a good place to start. His age, health etc doesn't give him a pass to do what he wants. He has responsibilities, you have rights and there are laws in place. Really hope it works out for you. As others have said, best not to put my opinions of landlords on here.

Jesus, sorry to hear this. A nightmare situation. Have you tried getting touch with a local tenants union or a larger one such as Acorn? You might be in a stronger position than your landlord thinks.

Yes it's a very unique and possibly old fasioned style, but glad you're getting into it. I found the portrayl of the the relative squalor of the castle, the pointlessness of some of the feuding and fighting refreshing. The medieval superstition and belief in magic is also captured very well as is the lack of knowledge about what is going on even a few miles up the road, never mind in other countries/kingdoms. And (maybe because it was written so long ago) there was a refreshing lack of trying to write our 21st century Western values back into the story. For good and bad, the characters are believably very much of their time. Hope you enjoy the rest

Spot on

For a firm that are supposedly marketing experts, it doesn't bode well that no one really has a clue as to how this is going to work in practice. We've got pages and pages of 'what ifs' here with nearly everyone having a different idea as to what would happen.

Grift? I think as more studies like this emerge, it throws the whole future of the sport into doubt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67192693 Another study, another set of frightening results

Interesting. Would that mean less loan players for Championship clubs as SL club fringe/young players now getting plenty of competitive games in League 1? I really hope they don't try and run L1 with just 8 clubs

Great stuff. For some reason I'm nervous as to whether you'll like it or not now! I might actually start rereading it next week

That is mental

So if they lose, they potentially go into a playoff to qualify? Think I got that after reading it a couple of times!

Done. Good luck

Amazing. What a story that is!

As a neutral I just hope it's not a blow out and Wigan are up by 18 after 20 minutes or something. Would have gone up there if Avanti West Coast didn't make travel between London and Manchester pretty much unaffordable

Great stuff, hope you like it...keep me posted!

League 1 really is unsustainable now. I hope there is a plan in place and we're not just going to try and muddle on with 8 teams in it. Kick in the stomach for Rugby League fans up there, very sad.

Yeah after The World is Not Enough I read her book on the Crusades and the one you mention on the Cathars. The crusade against the Cathars was absolutely brutal

Not if you're skint!

When you consider some of the s***e on there, that is a joke

I was genuinely shocked when I saw this result last night. Feel for Fev. Still no mention of it on the BBC Sport App that I can see.

Wasn't that mainly funded by the Sports Council? So when the government started slashing funding to that body, the RFL had no way of keeping that set up going. That was my understanding of it anyway

If you love Follet's Pillars of the Earth, I'd recommend trying Zoe Oldenburg's The Earth is Not Enough. She wrote it in the 60s I think, set in crusade era France and for my money, the best historical fiction book written about that era. Stumbled across it on a library years ago. The characters have stuck with me ever since and I've re-read it numerous times

If they did a press release there'd be people on here saying 'why didn't they do a press conference? We have to market our game properly'