Just to flag this up again, seriously this is the simple answer.

London have just defeated Featherstone Rovers 24-12 (5 tries to 3).

London area local prodigy Kieran Dixon scored a brace, as did Luke Dorn.

This is without doubt the low point of your trolling, truly dreadful

So you prefer the sanitised version?

London have just defeated Featherstone Rovers 24-12 (5 tries to 3).

Kieran Dixon scored a brace, as did Luke Dorn.

You forgot to be French again.

Bradford got to the League Cup Final in football, beating Arsenal, Wigan and Aston Villa.

Do i therefore ask the question how big is the difference between league 2 and the premiership (or champions league in Arsenal's case) or do we sit back and congratulate the lower league team on raising their game for a 1 off game.

A one off result is not enough to draw conclusions from (just look at the attendances thread, 1/3rd of the way through the season and people are still arguing that you cannot read to deep into what its suggesting)

I would be interested to know that if Widnes played Doncaster 100 times how many do people think Widnes would lose?

I would suggest less than 10.

I was told by a reliable source that this was disgust at a Superleague get together, however only a couple of clubs were up for it, namely Leeds and Wigan

Really? I could have sworn Whitehaven finished top of the league in 2005.

7 games completed so far....3,655 average attendance. 25,588 fans so far.....Hull FC being the only real shot at another big gate.......the RFL need to take responsibility for marketing cup games more.....Hemel Stags gave up home advantage to get a bigger crowd.....only 2,500 bothered.

fans staying away from games is a worry......

What's Hemels average home crowd?

Last year when Fev beat Castleford and then had their tough game with Wigan it proper drained them. Fax went on to tank them on their own ground the week after. Such performances cannot be sustained by a PT squad in a FT league.

It's total nonsense to speak about the gulf between SL and the Championship.
CC clubs have only a fraction of the S/C to assemble their squads and many of the players are only part time so, of course there is a gulf.
The real point is that, if there was promotion from the lower league, could these teams then be competitive, to which the answer is an obvious YES.
It takes a few seasons to get up to speed and to encourage the extra supporter numbers but its certainly possible.

The London v Fev game played out as expected. Fev came out of the blocks well, completed 100% of there sets in the first half and got to London's 20 with ease then ran out of ideas. Second half was all London.

Did em loadsa good didn't it



We were still champions, unless your discounting pretty much every Leeds SL title too ?

Half time at Mount Pleasant....

Batley 4 Huddersfield 0

It's a shame... even for the lower league clubs the fans aint turning out for the big boys. 600 at Hunslet v Cats and I reckon less than 1k at Rochdale, no idea about the others

Yes you won the GF but didn't 'win the league' in 2005 and certainly didn't dominate the league as you should have done with a FT squad up against PT players. Neither did you in 2007 when you came top of the league by a single point (although to be fair Cas and Widnes were a bit ahead of the rest, which as FT squads they should have been). The Cas squads from '05 and '07 certainly wouldn't have dominated the Championship over the last few seasons - if you took off your 'SL' tinted specs you might see that the 'top' Championship clubs, despite being PT, train considerably more and harder than they did then.

Yes, and we understand you have a disdain for all things Castleford.

batley 4-13 huddersfield!
2nd time in 3 years batley have run us close at the mount.

Gloucestershire All Golds 6 - 82 Salford City Reds. Some young lads in there too played very well.

York 30- Toulouse 28.

Five tries each. One conversion the difference. Pity.

Toulouse away from home with a poor coach. Implications are obvious.

York for Super League 2015?

No chance of Super League for Toulouse just yet there would be far to much to do.

One off results are no indication of the gap between clubs in different competitions

They'd have to sign near enough a full squad of SL standard players, have they got the money for that? A few more years in the lower leagues to build then when they've built a decent team challenging at the top of the championship then reconsider submitting an application for a franchise, for me it would be another Celtic Crusaiders spending money they didn't have to compete then going bust.