Agreed, well done to the ECB whilst RL continues to use covid as the reason why crowds are down.

I stopped right here, as I felt you'd nailed it.

I first watched Rugby League sevens in the 1960's and it was too short and too open, one speedster could win a game in minutes,

I saw the nines version at Wigan maybe sometime in the eighties. That was better.

80 minutes of action is fine, Cricket had to change as it was so slow and lacking much action, that was the problem.

For me RL set re-starts has been a smart change to Rugby League, but it's not just the rules that count, teams need to be even, and we salary capped to try to get this (albeit that could be tweaked to be better)

Pearson is showing himself up here, is he positioning himself to stomp out of the game? Reaity is we have changed our game many times to make it interesting, and you can see this via the comparison with Union, just how far we have gone in doing this.

I've been going regularly to RL games for decades. I don't have many decades left but will be going even more next season on.

I have only done a few games this last couple season directly because of COVID, same for many others, so why not wait until next season to actually see what the truth here is.

Crowds are down not just on the disease, the integrity of the league is down due to games being cancelled and players being unavailable due to erm....... "covid".........

Soccer has re-set just as restrictions are remvoved, we re-set in 2022 when we will see whether crowds go up or down.

I would not start praising the the ECB, fact is Cricket in it's true form has already died, and is being replaced by a speeded up version of baseball.

The aim is the boundary for every ball - exactly the same as baseball.

It's not cricket that has succeeded here. It's Baseball dressed up as cricket.

I take it you don’t watch much baseball with that comment.

Poor effort....even for a seasoned troll like you, that's just poor.
16k and change went to the Wigan saints derby....25 went to the "baseball" so let's slag off the organisers of the better attended event.....as I say....you're a poundland leaguefreak

Seen it live in San Fran, sure they hit short at times to get the runners round so it's got a bit more to it than the big slog, but the subject is how hundred cricket is somehow showing Rugby League up as staid and boring, again our game is always looking to rule change moves to avoid this. Recent positive changes are under the noses of people who like moaning about the game....Judge RL on a proper season, judge Hundred Cricket on the interest in a few years time..........