So you prefer the sanitised version?

London have just defeated Featherstone Rovers 24-12 (5 tries to 3).

Kieran Dixon scored a brace, as did Luke Dorn.

You forgot to be French again.

Bradford got to the League Cup Final in football, beating Arsenal, Wigan and Aston Villa.

Do i therefore ask the question how big is the difference between league 2 and the premiership (or champions league in Arsenal's case) or do we sit back and congratulate the lower league team on raising their game for a 1 off game.

A one off result is not enough to draw conclusions from (just look at the attendances thread, 1/3rd of the way through the season and people are still arguing that you cannot read to deep into what its suggesting)

I would be interested to know that if Widnes played Doncaster 100 times how many do people think Widnes would lose?

I would suggest less than 10.

I was told by a reliable source that this was disgust at a Superleague get together, however only a couple of clubs were up for it, namely Leeds and Wigan

Really? I could have sworn Whitehaven finished top of the league in 2005.

7 games completed so far....3,655 average attendance. 25,588 fans so far.....Hull FC being the only real shot at another big gate.......the RFL need to take responsibility for marketing cup games more.....Hemel Stags gave up home advantage to get a bigger crowd.....only 2,500 bothered.

fans staying away from games is a worry......

What's Hemels average home crowd?

Last year when Fev beat Castleford and then had their tough game with Wigan it proper drained them. Fax went on to tank them on their own ground the week after. Such performances cannot be sustained by a PT squad in a FT league.

It's total nonsense to speak about the gulf between SL and the Championship.
CC clubs have only a fraction of the S/C to assemble their squads and many of the players are only part time so, of course there is a gulf.
The real point is that, if there was promotion from the lower league, could these teams then be competitive, to which the answer is an obvious YES.
It takes a few seasons to get up to speed and to encourage the extra supporter numbers but its certainly possible.

The London v Fev game played out as expected. Fev came out of the blocks well, completed 100% of there sets in the first half and got to London's 20 with ease then ran out of ideas. Second half was all London.

Did em loadsa good didn't it

We were still champions, unless your discounting pretty much every Leeds SL title too ?

Half time at Mount Pleasant....

Batley 4 Huddersfield 0

It's a shame... even for the lower league clubs the fans aint turning out for the big boys. 600 at Hunslet v Cats and I reckon less than 1k at Rochdale, no idea about the others

Yes, and we understand you have a disdain for all things Castleford.