Cruncher:NickyKiss:
Absolute comedy gold article by Aaron Bower today on Love Rugby League, about who gets the most penalties and in particular, who gets the most at home and his summing up is that HKR, Hull and Leeds get the most penalties at home because they're the fittest teams...ha ha. It's nothing to do with them having supporters who get stuck in to the refs for 80 minutes solid...honest!!
Goes without saying that Wigan are bottom (probably because all the players are unfit puddings).
It's all in keeping with the emerging pattern.
There's an almost palpable need among the supposedly neutral RL media (who, as we know, are basically an arm of the game's ruling body) to see some trophies head to Humberside. And after the way praise was heaped on Leeds for managing to scrawp their way past Wakey the other day, the same shady group clearly want to see some glory in West Yorkshire too. None of this should surprise us.
It's funny that the power base of the game in terms of success has swung massively to this side of the Pennines in recent years but media wise, the vast majority of rugby league press and certainly the journalists with the loudest voices are Yorkshire based (and without doubt Yorkshire biased). It definitely leads to an almost frenzied desire to see a Yorkshire/Humberside based club knock one of Wigan/Saints off their perch. I've always found the mentality over that way fascinating tbh. You go to towns and villages and they'll support the local rugby league club and say they dislike Leeds Rhinos but they support Leeds United! and loads support any Yorkshire team in a final if they're playing a team from over this way.
