I think a few people are spot on. The game is dying a slow, painful death in this country. At least in the NRL you do get the tables swapping about. Look at this year with Brisbane, St George and Wests all near the bottom and a resurgence of Cronulla and Newcastle near the top. Sky give us crap coverage because that's all they have to do as no one else is interested in showing the sport. The media give us even less. Not even talksport commented on the playoff results last weekend that I heard. Until BT come along with their wheelbarrow full of cash its only going to get worse with the Dr paying players top money to play in front of 3000 people.

I have read Delaney commenting on Moore at home saying he (Moore) spends a lot of time recording and watching RL games over and over again.Perhaps he is going to go into coaching in the near future?

Good job for him he likes WATCHING it

Regarding Sinfield/Burrow/McGuire.....

I wonder which Leeds players (if any) end their international careers after the WC. I think this has probably been Sinfield's poorest year for some time and when you look at the former England captain (who was struggling prior to his international retirement) being joint favourite for MOS then perhaps focusing solely on club careers is the future for Sinfield, JJB, McGuire & Burrow. None will be around for another WC so stepping away after this year makes sense and they might enjoy the same kind of boost as Peacock has enjoyed in 2013 in their club careers.

I think it will be the end for Sinfield and JJB after this WC both approaching 32/33 now.Widdop should be the 6 we build the team around going forward.Mcguire probably wont be selected this time and its clear he is on the slide.Its debatable if he was ever good enough at that level and he certainly isn't now.It's hard to see him featuring again unless we have a serious injury crisis at half back.Burrow could maybe carry on for a couple more years as a squad player to be used as a wild card off the bench but thats for others to decide.

Not sure if any will formaly retire, but realisticaly it should be taken out of their hands as we should be building an England team for the future again.Like you say,It that should enable us to squeeze a couple more decent years out of these lads before they call it a day so not a bad thing from a Leeds fan's perspective.