As a Hull fan I have mixed thoughts on Pearson's comments. I am very supportive of the International game and believe it is a big chance for RL to grow, and I also feel the Exiles are the only credible opposition to England in this hemisphere (France never get it together) England are already at a disadvantage with SL playing so many games and having a new coach who hasn't managed a game with them yet.

But due to lockdown and pitch work at the KCOM (out of our control it is Council owned and ran by Hull City's owners) we aren't playing at home in front of crowds until the end of June. This clashes with the Exiles game so we could potentially be without Connor, Mau'u, Sao, Satae, Fonua, Faraimo Tuimuvave etc so not only weakening us on the field, but depriving us of a bigger crowd (if the rules allow it)

Playing two loop games is madness, they should have taken the financial hit and given England a free weekend, and ditched one of the mid week rounds.

Easy to say 'take the financial hit' but I don't know how the game can afford to lose any more money.

Once again Lenegan and other clubs (saints, salford. Wire, Fartown and Hull) were totally against the massive amount of SKY money that went to the Championship and supported the "Super eights" concept. The concept was flawed, and hadn't worked when used in soccer. It had been rejected by Scottish soccer and when stupidly used in RL SL crowds went down, and are yet to recover.

SL broke away and broke the RFL, redundancies aplenty as desks were cleared at Red Hall.

This new deal will see all the SKY money go to Superleague

Yes I agree entirely there is a disaster looming, but that's in the Championships. If you want to find chairmen crying you will find them in the Championship.

How about France being picked from any French player and any player playing for a French club.

Has to be far better than the ridiculous "exiles" picked from players who aren't here to play in sideshows.

France have been hammered every time England have played them in the last decade or so. They have good players but for some reason it just never clicks for then. They need a run of games against Wales/Ireland/Scotland to improve before they get a chance again.

Imagine celebrating that the sport is going to lose funding and that it will hit the weakest clubs most - whilst at the same time making apologies for the regime which led to the lower funding.

Since you seem to think comparing with football is a valid thing, how much Premier League money goes to divisions outside the the top flight? They don't believe some myth that the lucky few who managed to be in the top flight when the music stopped are somehow superior to or divorced from the rest of the sport. Wakey and Huddersfield and Salford are no bigger than Halifax or Widnes or myriad other clubs who have badly timed a fall from their historic fortunes.

Lenagan was behind the disaster that has led us to where we are now in terms of lower funding and massively increased outgoings. But it looks like deflection is the name of the game right now for him and for his apologists. It looks like he's the last true believer though as the management at Saints and Warrington - both clubs, incidentally, where off-field matters appear to be run rather more effectively than at Wigan - have long since stopped defending, or even supporting, the appointment of Elstone.

On a positive note (and I can't believe I'm about to type this!) HullKR have proposed to build a fanzone at the end where away end is, like what Toronto had. And also a temporary stand to boost capacity in lockdown and for games with big away attendances.

Rare to see SL clubs actually spending some time and money doing something positive rather than apathy and then wondering why SKY want to pay less and interest in the sport is declining.

I don't think the "good players" actually play for them much albeit there was a test match in 2018 in which England had won by half time 34-0 Fages played but the team was mainly Catalans/Toulouse players and as it was a test match I suspect France had their best team out.

That team then indeed had a run of games and won the European championship to get a world cup place. This being against Scotland, Ireland and wales. For me French talent gets thinner and thinner on the ground, so if Toulouse are to join SL expect an an Anglo-Antipodean team.....

France just dont have enough players, certainly not enough of decent quality.
However, as a genuine RL playing nation, albeit in a small corner in the South West of France, they need to be encouraged / helped to increase the spread of the game and Catalan / Toulouse need to do a little more to develop what talent there is..
The problem for France is that England, poor as they are, are massively better than them and Scotland, Ireland Wales are not good enough to give them a real test but, like many of the international RL sides, the other "home nations" are massively contrived and as a sport, we should be trying to find ways to help spread the game within Wales and Scotland.
Maybe there should be a Welsh club in SL

Fundamentally, there is no vision for the sport as a whole and that will never change with Lenegan and McManus running the show, as they are really only bothered about their own clubs.

England always get hammered by Aus and NZ. Maybe we need a run of games against other RL heavyweights like Tonga, Poland and Spain?

I take it you have not watched England play against Australia or New Zealand in the last few years or you would have known we do beat them take the last series against Newzealand we won the series did we not you want

What does "No vision mean" what are Lenegan and McManus blind to?

How did the show go when the RFL ran it?

What did they do with the biggest ever TV deal by Miles that Wood and Solly captured??

It's a TV deal for Super League. The RFL negotiated and got a great deal but the vast majority of the money went to the clubs under splits agreed between SL and the Championship clubs.
You think the RFL themselves had lots of money to splash around? Are you just mindlessly trolling now?