<r><QUOTE author="mickh"><s>[quote="mickh"]</s>Winter Rugby! Bring it on! Let's have a vote!<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> The question is, how representative do you think a vote here would be of the Wiganers who pitch up currently at the DW, and even more to the point, of the thousands that currently don'...

Yeah the charmless Pauline has re-surfaced down there, amongst others.

Bateman (or so we are repeatedly told) is leaving, but he's still giving 100%, as did Josh Charnley and plenty of others. Why shouldn't that apply to a coach as much as a player?

<t>Well we'll have to agree to differ. I do think that <br/> <br/> a) Summer rugby is in general a much better spectacle than winter mud-baths. There's union for that.<br/> <br/> b) Winter rugby is pined for by some older fans, but if re-introduced would drive gates further down, and <br/> <br/> c) ...

Shaun Wane sure has my good wishes.

<t>And yet people say, rightly, the sport should be concentrating on attracting the young: how many teeangers, do you think, would welcome winter rugby? Do you really think it would reverse the decline in gates? On the contrary, I would have thought. And I don't share any optimism that NRL sides wou...

<t>not to mention that the idea of Aussie players being free to come here in their close season: does anyone really imagine that NRL contracts these days would allow this? Or that top players would want to do it even it it were allowed, for the relatively small sums that English clubs could afford t...

<r><QUOTE author="DaveO"><s>[quote="DaveO"]</s>I agree about a return to winter.<br/> <br/> The game has lost so much by going to summer. Proper tours, a season ending with the Cc. Players going for a stint down under and others coming this way. The biggest drawback of all that has been how it screw...

I opened it and very very quickly shut it again.

I watched the first half at home and the second half down the pub, and realised how much more enjoyable it was to watch with the sound turned off!