Yes, like the Spruce Goose.

False Positive, I think Rugby League can survive outside of the M62 corridor in Britain.

But what would definitely help is if any club that sets up outside that little area were not subjected to a long, loud and sustained b1tching campaign, criticising every single aspect of it, undermining it at every turn.

Southerners do tend to struggle with the physical aspects of our game though,

touchy

So they are playing the game?

in a fashion.

Southerners seem to struggle with some of the physical aspects?

Which ones exactly?

When you lot swooped on the Welsh RU boys in the 80s, most of them seemed to find it quite easy. Deveruex, Bateman, Quinnell, Davies, Ellis etc took to it like a duck to water.

Similarly Kieron Cunningham and Iestyn Harris to name but two don't seem to have struggled any.

I suspect you are thinking of those "softie southerners" of your imagination THAT DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST.

Still if it makes you feel better.

Is this the Kieron Cunningham from St. Helens and the Iestyn Harris from Oldham?

Send all southern rugby players to the mines, that'll toughen them up.

Tim....nice but dim.

Is it in the South they can spell divide?