Statistics can be made to prove anything - trust me, I'm a retired Royal Mail staistician

Quote: Fax Machine ""Dr. Page, a FRENCH-born economist" - ah, right, totally impartial then?'" The same academic found a similar bias against London. fofefa.blogspot.com.au/ But that's just because he's been to London a few times. Fucking bias .

Quote: Fax Machine ""Dr. Page, a FRENCH-born economist" - ah, right, totally impartial then?'" The same academic found a similar bias against London. fofefa.blogspot.com.au/ But that's just because he's been to London a few times. Fucking bias .

ERr, what dubious decisions went against them in teh warrington game?

they should've been down to 12 men for fooks sake

I do see the major finals/attendance point in regards to fan numbers. The RFL do seem to prefer certain teams getting to them. But to threaten to quit Super League seems very childish. Every club gets decisions that go against them throughout the season.

A Cats v Hudds/Hull/Rovers (of course) final is more likely to tempt me rather than another Leeds v Saints TBH.

The neutral fan will pay to go and see Wigan vs. Warrington, for example, more than they would Catalans vs. Huddersfield.

Again .

The language barrier, for the French players at Catalan at least, has to have an impact. I've been convinced for some time that the Dragons get a raw deal - this was particularly evident in their first three years when they were by far the most penalised team in the league over that period. Things have seemed to get better but I'm sure many of the players inevitably fail to build a rapport with the referees during a game.

Is there a conspiracy though? No.

Bingo!

I don't know that it's deteriorated, the constant and increasing amount of tv replays of any wrong/controversial decision combined with the speed of the game can sometimes make the reffing seem worse than it is, but I would say that the reffing hasn't improved as much as it should have done. Especially considering they have been full time for a few years now.

during that period, 3 of their most penalized players, were, chriss beattie, alex chan, and ian hindmarsh, all english speakers iirc.

They were just a very very rough team, i thought they got penalized appropriately as they played, and i loved watching them then, i love watching them play now, less said about the walters years , the better.

Catalan are penalised a lot because they play sh-thouse rough tactics, nothing more.

I'm still trying to work out how Toulouse getting penalised more than anyone else suggests that they're a dirty side.
You do get penalised for a lot of other things, including - as pointed out earlier - slow PTB and other such offences, offide for example.

A bit of a straw man there, all it say is that TO13 were penalised more than anyone else. Nothing more, nothing less.

So you are only allowed one shot then?

What about Huddersfield, Salford, Castleford and Widnes?

What about them?

Other than Huddersfield, who didn't go down when maybe they should have, the other 3 have gone down and come back up...Widnes went down even though they didn't finish bottom and have entered and come out of admin.....as a club, they acted like a business when turned down for the first round of licences...there was no very public dummy-spit or meltdown as there was in Leigh.....there was no last game atendance announced that dragged the seasons average up to 2,500 exactly like there was at Halifax.......they presented the best plan in the eyes of the RFL.

Halifax and Leigh both nearly bankrupted themselves trying to stay in SL and as a result, they found themselves unable to "bounce back"......both clubs are now to be applauded for the way they are run and if they keep up this good work both on and off the field, they will get a licence, but some of their fans, especially the ones who say "we don't care about Superleague" do seem to post some bitter and twisted stuff regarding the competition they are glad their team isn't involved in