Makes me wonder what sort of side Burgess will put out next week.

Will he end up like Harry Rushden, though?

Pah! Whilst you Sky guys are watching Saints v Leeds, my only option is bargain-basement Cas v Hull FC! Neither side have been great, as a glance at the table shows, but the first half was reasonably entertaining. Made me wonder; who's the best English 13? Westerman? Who's Wane's non-Radley option? ...

Any spine in FC would be an improvement!

I searched in vain too, Ted. Challenge Cup games in general, in fact. I've tried the useless RFL site without success.

Heh! I was going to say, I'll bet Lee Briers loves being called an Englishman, he's Welsh! But I checked, and in fact he was born in St Helens!


(you guys probably already knew that)

That doesn't contradict anything, though. Tickets available for ST holders until next Thursday. But not, for me, online. But I went to the ticket office on Monday and bought a ticket.

Don't know the rules in rugby union, but in league as soon as the ball-carrier's feet are both off the ground (ie, he's being carried) the tackle is complete, so that couldn't happen,

Oh dear, just watching it again and the neurotic "analysis" of the Tanganoa offside on 44 minutes is just nausiating. The guy is in front of the kicker and is offside - end of. Haven't they even got the technology to trace a line across, VAR-style, instead of just saying "I reckon he...

Ticket now bought. I decided to go the lo-tech route, and forget all about online, and drive down to the ticket office. It's an interminably show process (there were only two people in front of me, and I must have waited a good 20 minutes to be seen to), but I have a ticket! Of course, if you don't ...