Maybe, Cas might have been in trouble then

Scrapping the academy was Hughes cutting off his nose to spite his face as usual.

.........he had to do it himself though. if he'd employed someone to do it for him he'd be deaf now

Amazingly, this time next week London could be outside the relegation zone.

Unfortunately for London, "their" relegation zone stretches all the way up to first position.

Still, it would be nice to clear the relegation position as sporting fans would recognise it (bottom team is relegated).

It would, but neither London nor Hull have covered themselves in glory. Hull were surprisingly poor but I assume they may benefit in the long run from giving younger players game time. We haven’t taken that approach. As far as I can see our young players will be, development wise, precisely where they were at season’s start. Frankly I’m not sure what our game is. Most of our players are on one year contracts so if they do improve from a year in SL we may end up not being the club who benefits. Anyway at least we haven’t lost every game and with a few back now there looks like real competition for places and we may become more competitive which will make the home games more entertaining.

Ese ese charged with verbal abuse post I see. Up to 6 matches.

Found 'unequivocally not guilty' wonder if everyone who's hung him out to dry all week will offer an apology? Doubt it.

Why am I not surprised by that! It doesn't say much then for the match officials & how they handled the "incident".

Piece of luck for this fella that audio ended up proving he did nothing wrong. These he said/she said cases are really dodgy. Very unclear how anyone can come to a definitive view on what happened in absence of real evidence. Especially problematic as consequences can be severe.

Seems this story isn't over yet following the club's statement to seek legal advice.

Why was the RFL statement made jointly with Hull FC ? That doesn't seem appropriate regardless of whether a charge is progressed.

Agreed Buzz but in any event with a charge like this, you need transparency & that should result in a hearing deciding on the evidence provided by Hull & the views that Sid wants to put forward. Whether he said something or Sid misunderstood who knows, but dismissing it as "nothing to see here move along" does RL no favours.

OK so on the face of it the issue is slapdash process rather than the substantive issue. One assumes Broncos have heard the recording- if not, that is odd. The actual issue itself remains a he said/she said where the ‘he’ actual has, seemingly, proof he didn’t say what he was accused of. If the tape provides that proof, let Broncos hear it and that would seem to be that. Lack of transparency and the optics of a joint press release are valid points but I’m not sure what mileage there is in pursuing. I recall us getting all bent out of shape about the game in Toulouse a few seasons back. We had a ‘moral’ point but got nowhere. Net result money out, lost points and we ended up 7th in the league.

Without wishing to rehash that farce, which of course if it did anything, it showed that Broncos often aren't allowed a level playing field, the wording in the Broncos statement suggests that either they haven't heard the tape or the tape was provided after the RFL/Hull released the "nothing to see" statement. Either way, that is wrong. The use of the word "unequivocally withdrawn", is tantamount to saying Sid is telling porkies, which I am sure he is not & heard something. What it would seem is that the RFL don't want to know in great detail what that something might be which you would have hoped a hearing might determine. After all, it isn't unknown for Islanders in both codes of rugby to use, shall we say, intemperate language at times.