Les Tonks Sidestep

Op Rule C 1.22.2 A loan player may only be placed on DR by the loanee club with consent of the RFL

Think you've misunderstood Colin. He was brought in as 'director of rugby' when Long was coach

Couple of interesting curtain raisers to the Toulouse v Fev game....

There's a webcam for this nest too https://www.wildlifekate.co.uk/gwyllthollowsittingroomnestbox Edit: all her webcams https://www.wildlifekate.co.uk/livecameras

No. The club have stated themselves that this is merely to gain points.

I'm also wondering where in their PP application they mentioned installing seats in the Princess St stand.....

The Princess St stand will get some new cladding if the new development ever goes ahead but it is planned to then revert it back to standing. And yes it's being done now just to get IMG points

ie The RFL have been (and still are) subsidising Bradford Bulls to the tune of ca£100k pa.....around half the total amount of central funding received by L1 clubs in 2022 (and probably a bigger % as of today)

Certainly looks like the RFL have been giving a (probably unconstitutional) financial benefit to one of the member clubs for some considerable time......unless the other members have agreed of course.

His discipline at York didn't help either.

Possibly because Toulouse had a man sent off after 26mins when they were leading 14-0. They'd extended that lead to 20-0 when they had a 2nd sent off in the 64th min. York scored their 14pts in the last 8mins against 11 men....

Helps if you only have (get) to hear one side of the argument.....

Pretty sure the world's oldest man is still alive.....

Sheffield FC's Chairman seems to think so: ""I think some people are expecting it to be 5,000 people every week but that's not the case because we're a non-league team and Sheffield Eagles are a Sunday afternoon rugby club," Mr Tims told The Star."

I didnt. St Helena (and Ascension Island) uses the St Helena pound (code SHP, 654)...

....and Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. But it is still the GB pound. Anyway we are digressing from the thread.

Yei's tribunal hearing is tomorrow

GB pounds, please

I'm not too far away from you and we see a buzzard and kites fairly regularly too - they start over the fields nearby and slowly drift over the estate. We did have a frequent sparrowhawk visiter to the garden when we first moved in but haven't seen it, or its aftermath, for a couple of years now - possibly because the goldfinches seem to have disappeared round here; not seen many sparrows either for a while.

Spent a few days in The Lakes last week. Watching and listening to the skylarks told me spring was really here. A couple of sightings of kestrels hunting and a couple of buzzards in Bannerdale followed by a real treat to see 6 buzzards (4 + 2) circling the skies above Patterdale, matched by a herd of around 20 red deer on the slopes of the deer forest on The Nab