How times change. There was a coal mine in Bradford, inner-city Manchester, until 1968. The site is now occupied by the Etihad Stadium.

I’m delighted that Pat Ritchie has accepted the role of interim Chair of Homes England. I very much look forward to working with her to ensure the Agency is effectively supporting the government’s ambitious housing agenda. gov.uk/government/new…

Was in this crowd…have to say the idea of having the DJ next to the queue really does help manage the situation

And ironic that the Lord Derby cup exists because of visionary leadership of someone from near St Helens wanting to support the game in France and yet Saints are listed as a club wanting the French out!

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Simply pointing out the obvious - there is a very clear conflict of interest in what occurred. There’s no avoiding that fact. The ‘review’ won’t have an ounce of credibility as a result.

A new fan lobby group RLUnited has been set up in the UK to provide rugby league supporters with a voice. (free read) patreon.com/posts/12620124…

But the current system IS the problem and always has been. The RFL Council cannot act as a Governing Body as it is always going to be influenced by such short term interest. So let’s ignore the RFL Council and have a Governing Body that is separate.

Understanding the need for regeneration in the North dlvr.it/TK9PP8 #ukhousing

I ignored my symptoms for weeks… By the time diagnosed my cancer was at stage 2 requiring chemotherapy after surgery. If I’d have acted earlier, the surgery alone would have been enough… So the message is check yourself and act if you notice that something is not right!

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Critical lessons learnt with this scheme. It’s similar in scope and scale to what was being done under the last Labour Government…empowering delivery today as it was empowered then is essential if regeneration and using goals are to be met.

5minutes on the Sport England website showed this to be an problem: the incompetence of the coup group is they didn’t even do that 5 minutes of work!

100% agree that there must be much much more focus on participation and a much deeper pyramid to allow for more player pathways. But that takes a whole game strategy - instead of that we allow our game to be run by clubs who only ever think in short term self interest.

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This is what i had yesterday….very very very good!

This I agree with!

A curiosity of this is there was a Bradford Northern Union (Rugby League) team and also a Clayton NU team in East Manchester at points in the past….their players presumably drawn from the mining community as per many other RL areas…

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Saw this and wondered if an RFL Board meeting…but obviously not, Rawtenstall would obviously be too far from the M62