Rugby League 2017

[Deanjam]

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[Deanjam]

Wire are shit.

[Gulftastic]

Not as shit as Leeds. At least Warrington have the players to turn this around.

[doppelkorn]

Uggggghhhhhhh

[Gulftastic]

Well, what the fuck do I know? Fantastic reaction to last week's debacle. Cheers Leeds.

[dr beat]

Good to see 8-point tries are still a thing. 

Why are Saints losing? They're wearing red shorts.  St Helens don't wear red shorts.

Also.  Clare Balding: Rugby League, Crufts. Sweet gig.

[Deanjam]

Good to see 8-point tries are still a thing. 

Rather a soft one though. Seen worse not punished.

[doppelkorn]

Clare Balding: Rugby League, Crufts. Sweet gig.

What RL coverage is she doing?

[doppelkorn]

While Warringotn flounder, I thought I'd share a couple of RL tidbits I've come across over the past few days.

Here's Stuart Pearce talking about his mate Tony Smith and his admiration for Wire and RL in general (skip to 16:06). In that same podcast, John Kear advocates this (seemingly popular) idea of "two super leagues of ten" with one-up-one-down promotion and relegation. Fewer games, meaning more sellouts, in theory.

Finally, YouTube recommended me this clip of Stevo and Stuart Barnes (part 1, part 2) discussing players switching codes in 2010. The debate about switching codes is well-worn territory, and won't be that interesting, but Jesus Christ, RL needs better ambassadors than this. Stuart Barnes plays Stevo like a fiddle, basically letting him get himself wound up and playing the role of bitter northern rugby league fan. The highlight is about 5:30 in part 2 where he starts going on about Pontefract liquorice.

I dunno. Stuart Barnes isn't trying to make it into a competition, but Stevo can't resist.

So, to summarise, Wigan will win SL this year.

[Deanjam]

Wire are shit.

[Gulftastic]

That one try aside, Warrington have offered precisely fuck all in this game.

[Deanjam]

They've offered much amusement.

[doppelkorn]

I've not been this annoyed by a sporting result for as long as i can remember...

[Mr Eggs]

This is karmic punishment for the Warrington 2021 UK City of Culture bid.

[doppelkorn]

Is anyone else enjoying the Super League Show's new Set of 6 feature? Kyle Amor struggling to name six vegetables was good, but the man JJB called "a genius" - Ryan Hall - has shot to the top of the leaderboard this week by naming six nursery rhymes, six teams who have won the Challenge Cup, and six meats. Unfortunately, he gave "kebab" and "pizza" as answers to his "types of Cuisine" set, meaning he failed to complete a mathematically satisfying six sets of six.

[Gulftastic]

Ryan Hall. He is big and he is clever.

[Gulftastic]

3rd win in a row but fuck knows how. Huddersfield should be worried. We gave them so much ball from unforced errors in the second half but they could do nothing with it.

Wigan next week for 6s. We need to tighten up considerably.

[Deanjam]

Wigan next week for 6s. We need to tighten up considerably.

You've run into us at a good time with half the squad injured again.

[Gulftastic]

Fuck. YEAH!

[doppelkorn]

THE SEASON STARTS HERE![nb]For Widnes [/nb]

Chris Sandow was last seen doing a Wiccan hex in the car park of the big IKEA.

[dr beat]

THE SEASON STARTS HERE![1]

Didn't see that win coming, given that Leigh seem to have a lot of physical old heads, and we had a particularly light and inexperienced squad, but it looks like our half-backs bossed it.

[Deanjam]

Salary cap increased.



Good for the big boys, not sure anyone else will be happy.

[doppelkorn]

Come on!

Bentelimar Westwood strikes again.

[Mr Eggs]

The power of that logo flowing through Declan Patton's boot.

[doppelkorn]

This season of Super League is shaping up even more interestingly than last season, whihc means Wigan should boringly walk it.

I'm most impressed by Salford. In September you had a club that shouldn't have been in the middle 8s based on result basically implode on and off the field. I read that many players had already started contract talks elsewhere before the MPG, so I just expected them to slide down the leagues.

Now look.

[Deanjam]

This season of Super League is shaping up even more interestingly than last season, whihc means Wigan should boringly walk it.

Indeed we will if we can ever get anything like a full squad fit.

[Deanjam]

Keiran Cunningham sacked.

[doppelkorn]

MR. MCMANUS: TEAR DOWN THAT STATUE!

[mikeyg27]

Needs some big headphones.

[doppelkorn]

Kieron Cunningham's just appeared in my son's robot