Which tune? Unforgettable? Did you forget the name of it?

No shock in us losing to the bottom team on Good Friday - it happens every year !

This year has been terrific so far which is amazing when you consider that folk like Garry Schofield (I know) was saying the game was dying on its feet during the off-season. They couldn't be more wrong. The number of kids coming through is starting to change the make-up of the league i.e. professionalism is instilling a belief that we didn't used to get. It's taken a while to get to this stage but I think we're slowly starting to see the rewards from teams being forced to invest in youth with the reduction of quotas and the salary cap.

With a salary cap you would expect teams to even themselves out and can only be good in the long run. What we really need to see is an increase in skill levels and moments of outstanding brilliance to win close games.

I think this season has been much more enjoyable than last season up to now. Not just the unpredictability of the games, but also the quality has been higher which has surprised me.

Certainly from my own club's point of view, we are playing more watchable rugby even with the loss of Finch, Leuluai, Carmont, Lima, Hock etc.

Most of the televised games have been good fare too, maybe the added incentive of a World Cup place has raised some players' games? Who knows.

Let's hope the gradual increasing on intensity will lead to that.

Mmm. Those tears are so tasty.

No it's not. Unpredictability and uncertainty are entirely predictable. It's the outcomes that are not predictable. An inability to judge an outcome isn't the same as an inability to judge whether you can judge the outcome or not.

I think it's usually just after the Easter period when the whipping boy SL rabble clubs quit pretending they are genuine competitive entities in SL and normality is then restored.

On the flip side today, scores so far:

Bradford 24 Salford 6
Hudds 32 Widnes 0
Hull KR 6 Wigan 42
Saints 38 Castleford 0
Warrington 28 London 14

Oh dear



All this increasing SL intensity is absolutely killing me.

Huddersfield have hit 50 against Widnes now.

The quality has definitely increased... by some of the teams in the league. The other half/two thirds are still .

Just as a matter of interest, does anyone know the highest points scored cumulative in a round of super league?

Wigan putting up a new record away score today.

Hull KR - the best April fools joke of the day.

In a franchise/salary cap sport. These scorelines were meant to be a thing of the past.

Quote ="William Eve"Oh dear All this increasing SL intensity is absolutely killing me. Huddersfield have hit 50 against Widnes now.'" One for the archives William...www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... tive-ever-

Quote ="William Eve"Oh dear All this increasing SL intensity is absolutely killing me. Huddersfield have hit 50 against Widnes now.'" One for the archives William...www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... tive-ever-

Funny how you had nothing to say last week when the games were high quality and exciting. Are you seriously claiming to be a rugby league fan?

398 points scored today in 6 games

Unlike the NRL, the Eels have started already.

He's not a rugby league fan. He's a naughty boy!

That's four for four on the old predictions list by my count - I may be stretching the definition of a 'big win' in Hull's case though.

Seeing the cricket scores Wigan and Hudds posted just reaffirms the point that 14 teams is just too much - teams aren't even in the same class. One-offs like Friday are nice from a media and journalistic point of view. The RFL and Sky can sit back and toot the horn that this is the best and closest SL to date, but it's just not the case sadly.

Quote ="Mark_W"One for the archives William...www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... tive-ever-'" Thanks for the link... cheers Absolute stereotypical quality bull from our esteemed six-figure-salaried CEO of the RFL just one day before Wigan rack up 84 points away at Hull KR, Huddersfield thump Widnes at home again by 60 points and Warrington stick 50 past London. LMAO

Quote ="Mark_W"One for the archives William...www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... tive-ever-'" Thanks for the link... cheers Absolute stereotypical quality bull from our esteemed six-figure-salaried CEO of the RFL just one day before Wigan rack up 84 points away at Hull KR, Huddersfield thump Widnes at home again by 60 points and Warrington stick 50 past London. LMAO

A slightly desperate attempt at boosting attendances as teams with the smallest squads, as is usual in the 2nd easter games, turn in pi ss poor performances aimed at pressurising the RFL into giving them a longer turnaround. Bullhsit from Woods, yes, for sure, but the problem lies with clubs producing too few players of the requisite quality.