It's smarmy-positive which is the worst kind. There are no negatives in it at all. The game will no doubt be an improvement on the previous games, but it won't be 'good', it's just the subject matter that will make most buy it, to support the concept of a league game. The developer's back catalogue is very poor and the previous league games were simply awful. I don't blame the developer, they are in a viscious cycle. Their games have little investment, sell poorly and generate little revenue. Without a big games company investing in it, there is no chance of it ever turning into anything genuinely worth playing.

Our best hope of ever getting a semi decent RL game is for one of the bigger developers to butcher an existing sports game engine and dish it out as an Xbox Live Arcade/PSN game.

The release seems to have been pushed back to the 30th of November

Yep - Everything gets out of the way of CoD

The release date hasn't been pushed back at all, November 16th was a made up date by the retailers to make sure people weren't put off buying it due to no release date, the first time Tru Blu came out and said a release date was a few days ago saying it was the 30th November, because the likes of Amazon and play.com put it down as the 16th everybody seems to think that was the release date.

still not been altered on play.com

Anyone going to the Eng vs France game at Salford on Sunday will be able to try out the game before it goes on sale.