Nah, the benefit of the doubt there for LMS there for me. It was his path of travel and he glanced him in the air... correct decision for a penalty only. If he wanted to hurt Tomkins, he'd have grabbed.

I'm pretty sure it will happen.

Not someone I'd be keen to defend but nothing much in that one.

Sad thing. The American football league game in Spurs ground tomorrow will almost certainly have a bigger crowd.

I actually like NFL. But we have the better product in my opinion. Shows the scale of the failure insular, 'keep it the M62 corridor mentality has caused us. Those who love our game the most are also its biggest enemy.

I suppose we need to account for neutral supporters who'd bought tickets for the planned RLWC and were (probably) going to give the GF a miss this year regardless of the finalists.

The difference is the nfl's marketing budget just in London is probably ten fold of every SL club combined marketing budget.

I don't even watch nfl but have noticed just how much content sky show and it clearly is very popular here. Outside the games sky show all kinds of shoulder programming and when you look at the production values NFL content it just looks all high end.

It looks like a premium product and the ticket prices for these UK games are premium prices but they have clearly tapped into a fanbase who have disposable income to not only buy tickets but the nfl make a killing on merchandise sales at these games.

I've seen the fans after games on tubes and trains and you see people with bags of merchandise and that stuff isn't cheap at all.

Rugby League is in the doldrums, and Rimmer is not the Leader to get us out of them.

Not if your a Saints fan were feking flying high

There was somewhere around 45000 in attendance

45k attendance. So that means no SL grand final has ever been played in a stadium in front of that many empty seats (approx. 30k) People are voting with their feet. The game is on its backside

Why do you want to think like that?

Covid fears leaves not only people not buying tickets to live events it leads to 20% of people who have bought tickets in advance not taking them up . Went to a theatre performance that was sold out but there were lots or empty seats, the ushers gave me the 20% figure and explained these people don't want to take their seats due to Covid risks ....

People forget that Covid infections have not gone away, there are around 30,000 a day in the here and now.