James Graham has a very good podcast (I prefer it on YouTube, but it is on normal podcast apps too) called The Bye Round. The latest one to drop is 1hr 18 mins with Shane Richardson, the CEO of West Tigers.


If you don't follow the NRL closely, the fist 53 minutes won't mean much, as most of it is about the current situation around Lachlan Galvin, but from 53mins onwards he talks exclusively about English rugby league, and the potential future, and it is very interesting. He makes very good points. I'm not with him on the 10-team league with 2 French clubs, because it's a different world here, but I can see a breakaway happening, trying to read the tea-leaves, and this is an Aussie who does understand the English game.


Well worth a watch/listen.

Yeah, as a Hull fan, I really enjoyed his refreshing outlook on the game in England. He has been here, so he has some basis in what he says, and like he says in the podcast, the same people are still involved in the RFL pretty much - it hasn't moved on.


As a Wakefield fan, are you worried about whether you will be included in a potential 10 team NRL Europe? I get what he says when he says that Batley shouldn't have the same say that St Helens have

If you work on the assumption that you'd want a club in the heartland area around Wakefield, because of the progress we've made off the field, with the ground development to continue, I think we're in pole position. I see us as where Hull KR were about 5 years ago.


Huddersfield maybe have the most to worry about it.