Quite surprised at that. Pretty poor.

As a beneficiary of the A & L last season, I fully agree. I can't believe it cost the club that much, but it was a nice gesture which said, hey, we realise you live a distance away and can't come every week, but here's a little sweetener.

BTW I've a Norweb shirt at home (somewhere, haven't worn it for years); does that makes me an 'official' part-timer? I suppose when I bought that I was, I was a Challenge Cup Final only guy.

Fully agree about this, though. The BBC has a duty to inform, yes, and they shouldn't be saying "This is too complicated" (i.e. "The public are too thick to understand this"icon_wink.gif, they should simply be explaining it as clearly as possible, and keep the editorialising out of it.

The only way they could have built up a Ryder cup feel would have been to have all three games on the same day and at the same venue. I'd even go as far to say that the players could have played in the same style kits (maybe a dream team kit) with their own club badges on at the side of a Superleague badge.

Without all that it's just two friendlies and a main event and many Wigan fans will want Saints and Wire to get beat and the same for them.