By crikey, this was a long thread!

How unfortunate to read certain insinuations from my colleagues at LE. Rather petty. Hope there are no grudges there for whatever reason.

For what it's worth, I feel both LE and League Weekly get a rather hard time from certain people on this forum. I think rugby league fans should count themselves lucky to have not one but two newspapers fully-dedicated to rugby league, whatever their limitations.

All I'll say is I hope people judge both products on their current state and what they currently offer, and not buying a particular one on old prejudices or reputations.

Can I also, finally, just cover one point that I've heard raised - that both papers are 'Yorkshire-biased'. I can say, at least in League Weekly's case, that such an assertion is absolute piffle, which you can gather from looking at our staff / regular contributors... I'm from Wigan myself, my editor Rebecca Smith is from Blackpool, Ray French, as you MAY have heard (although he doesn't mention it often) is from St Helens and has Widnes leanings also. Andy Wilson is another Lancastrian. Ian Millward is coach of Leigh, in Lancashire. Compare that to our Yorkshiremen... Danny Lockwood, Nosey Parker and our excellent new amateur reporter Ryan Sparks. So there!

I still remember him claiming that Bradford would win it and to mark his words. I laughed and he entered into an abuse rant. Result = Bradford finished 9th

and your comment has just made me do the exact same with my fruit and fibre

I agree with yours and others comments re going to print a couple of days later. We can all access so much more these days online, the explosion of rugby league news on twitter in recent months for example, and the wonderful new site for score updates loverugbyleague.com. Maybe SL and Championship match reports should be available online via blogs/twitter the papers own websites....and the paper, online or otherwise would serve more purpose with features, interviews, coaches thoughts etc etc incl letters from Mick
Leaving more room for the match reports etc from lower leagues etc...I like the old match reports too and history of the game, and the idea to do features on unsung heroes and club stalwarts - Tommy Sale for a gong anyone

Then the papers could do more looking forward to the next round of matches, having picked up injury news, opta stats, disciplinary reports and match official appointments - It might have to be Wednesdays

micks a fantastic rl fan

not only going to games involving his team the bulls home and away but also championship and champiohsip 1 games weekly too

good luck with your cornflakes though

He doesnt half talk out of his though.

maybe for you

for me hes one of the most passionate RL fans ive ever met

ive been reading his posts for years and pretty much liked the way he posts from day one

and others appreciate his work as well

he now commentates on RL games for an organisation