The 'national' code loses another northern team, hurrah.

The M4 will be the new M62 before they know it!

really ? didn't see that !

who is it ?

Saw it briefly earlier this afternoon. A former player, I think. Moss?

I can see attendances at Twickenham dropping below 80,000 now......the end is nigh

You remind me of ECT, Dally M and Eels Fan sometimes, in your inability to let any criticism of the game (in your case union) pass without a withering and unnecessary sarcastic defence.

It s true. Union cannot claim to be a national game in England with only one team north of Northampton and nothing on the Eastern side of the country north of Reading.

RU is a mirror image of RL geographically. I can see Newcastle and Leeds going belly up if they don t get promotion pretty soon.

On the other hand Broncos arn t doing too well either.

It will be hard for both Newcastle and Carnegie to get back into the first division anytime soon. I can't see Newcastle keeping hold of even their half-decent players, which would leave them in a similar situation to Carnegie when they went down. Both Bristol and Pirates will have better squads, and I'd say finance.

Don't often come on here, and I may have said it before, but why is it that whenever there is a big union game there are two or three on here banging on about how dull it is, and how the union marketing must be great to attract so many deluded fools. Polishing a turd was one phrase used. If you don't like, don't watch. Personally, I don't much like league, I find it a bit one dimensional. I like watching good rucking and powerful mauling. I don't mind if my team wins through penalties and I thought the Wales-Australia games were absorbing and exciting. But then, I was brought up on union and have played, coached and reffed it, so understand some of the complex twiddly laws. I know there are flaws, the scrum for one, but I like it. I don't feel the need to do league down though, why some of you feel the need to do union down?

I thought you used to watch Wigan as a kid. Everyone's entitled to an opinion. That's the beauty of a forum. For example you didn't think Iain Thornley cut the mustard in union. I had a different opinion, largely based on him making the Championship Team of the Year.
I take your point, with regard to those that profess to find union the perfect cure for insomnia, but are on this particular thread every other hour. Personally I have no time for international soccer, which is why I haven't been following the European Championships.

I did watch Wigan, and Orrell too, we must have been around the same place same time. I just didn't enjoy league as much.

Although, to totally contradict myself, club rugby in the amateur days was truly awful to watch. It was a players game then

I started watching Wigan in 1985 and I went to Edge Hall Road from 1986 to 1996. Maybe we stood next to each other on more than one occasion

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