Quote: Daddy Pig "I get the Sunday Times every week and opened it today expecting to se the usual 2 lines. I was amazed to see a whole page devoted to the World Cup (the first time I can remember a full page of RL in all my years of reading this publication).
There was the usual stuff on the Burgess brothers, a report on yesterday's match and a summary of the groups. However, when I read the main article my heart sank - within the first few paragraphs I had read about how small the RLWC is, the lack of awareness of the tournament, the antipathy of league supporters, the thousands of empty seats expected at the opener, the £2 million loss from the last home World Cup, the farcical Stobart deal and the rebellion against the RFL.
Now, I'm not debating whether they were factually correct, but after reading the article I was convinced it must have been the work of Stephen Jones, but no -it was our very own Chris Irvine.
So the one time in living memory we get a full page spread in the ST and the journo uses it to have a moan instead of picking out the many exciting and positive things we have to look forward to in the coming weeks - unbelievable!'"
Typical Irvine sadly. No-one says lie and be a cheerleader, but jeez, why be so negative? What about the thousands of tickets sold rather than empty seats? Is he William Eve?