I thought that at the time. Then he starts banging on about unfair advantages and whether we should be forced to allow teams to train on it before playing on it. There are many ways teams give themselves an advantage, whether its the sloped pitch, the small in goal area, the width. To me, this will be a good thing especially in bad weather.

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Don't think it was at Leigh East.

Leigh Centurions use that pitch for training sometimes and it didn't look like Leigh East from the shots I saw

Think it may have been at Edge Hill University Ormskirk

One will be the terrifying Thomas Coyle.

I just think he played Devil's advocate, and did it well. Let's face it, there's plenty of flatcappers who'll be shocked by this innovation and will have thought all the things Hemmings asked out loud. This way their questions are answered.

Its just another way in which RL pushes the boundaries of british sport.

Should go well with the atrificial promotion

JMO sports park in Skelmersdale according to the Liverpool Echo last night.

It sounds like the surface South London Storm play on, that's a very fine, very soft surface that is much superior to grass.

Avignon used an artificial pitch in the French Elite this season, not sure if it's the same type that Widnes will be getting, but doesn't seem to have been an issue. Saracens RU will have one when they move to Barnet Copthall next year.

so, you think the squad is going to be awesome, but apparently dont know its makeup? hmmmmm.
there are myriad threads covering the ongoing squad building.

But it only gives one side of a story, and makes people think of it as negative first. I'd be equally annoyed if he'd been leading questions from the opposing view. It's just poor journalism. Questions could have been answered just as easily from a neutral point of view.

All it does is make the person asking the questions seem stupid (as his opinion-led question is ultimately always wrong). Or it just gives the impression that the majority of the audience are negative cynicals.
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Don't get me started on SKY questions. It drives me nuts after the game when they "interview" a player or two. Bill Arthur doesn't ask questions, he just makes statements which leave the players with nowhere to go.

Eg :

"They really made you work hard out there."
"You must be pleased with that performance."
"Your forward pack really laid the platform there."
"That was a tough local derby"
"You had to really dig deep in the second half."

I'd love it if Bill would just once ask open-ended questions :

"Who do you think was your best player today ?"
"What was the turning point of the game ?"
"Did the opposition do anything which surprised you ?"

That sort of thing. I'd like genuine player views, not just repeated cliches following a Bill statement. You may as well just put Bill in front of the camera and have him read his crib sheet of 15 meaningless statements.

Grrr.
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