Thanks, DarkBlueRover - I had wondered if he might have said 14 teams in the press interview, and so gone a bit farther than at the Bradford forum.

To be honest the recent Oxford RL pieces in League Express have all been the same - I reckon they got a job lot from Tim Rumford during one phone call, to be used as needed (and Tim's been away recently).

BBC website has the New York story as well, including this gemLigue 1 to the Championship, the game's second tier, at the first attempt last season."

Perhaps the League is moving to France.

Very odd. If the players were told late last week, an announcement in this week's RL media made sense, given the likelihood of a player letting something slip via Twitter or Facebook.

What's the betting something is sneaked out about half time in the England v Australia game......

And there we have it Nothing in 2018. www.oxfordrl.com/2017/10/blue-gold-unite-as-one/

And there we have it Nothing in 2018. www.oxfordrl.com/2017/10/blue-gold-unite-as-one/

Goodbye and thanks for the memories.

May see some of you in 2019. I think the new Bristol club is reasonably advanced in planning, I was told the name of their expected coach a couple of weeks ago,. Probably better to take time and build the base properly rather than rush for 2018.

Oddly, The League Express have decided not to mention the news at all.

Took a while but I've read it properly now. It's actually even odder than you might have thought. There is a Highlights of the Week section on page 5. In that they state that the highlight story of the week is the "merger". And despite that they have then failed to cover it anywhere!

On another note, not sure if the posts on this forum will remain. I see that there is no longer an official moderator.