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Wouldn’t mistake viewership with participation. If super league can get a TV deal, so can the Premiership. It’s that they’re asking for too much money. Rugby Union needs to accept it’s a niche sport.

With hindsight, perhaps. But, his stock would have undoubtedly have risen had he performed well in L1. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some regret that he left us, given our respective trajectories.

I don’t begrudge anyone for looking to earn more. In the short term, he absolutely made the right choice assuming money is everything. But, money isn’t everything and a 4 year contract isn’t a long period of time, and it’s pretty clear his stock will never be as high as it was when we sold him...

Funnily enough, it was British studies that partly influenced the successful Swiss and Portuguese approaches to drugs. In fairness to politicians, the public demand is treat criminals harshly and to treat drug users as criminals. For Tories, their approach should be market based - at least you...

The War on Drugs has been a failure and societal disaster in the USA. The successes countries like Portugal have had with decriminalisation compared to the USA demonstrates the need to change course. Looking at the success of legalisation of marijuana in the US, it wouldn’t surprise me if other...

No denying Speed laid the groundwork, but Coleman came in and changed system to 5-3-2. They had a solid setup, and had the likes of Bale, Williams, Allen and Ramsey who were all playing well. I had the pleasure of watching their 3-0 over Russia. They got to the semi-finals of the Euros...

In fairness to Coleman, he did a great job at Wales. However, his career before and after his career highlight has been pretty mediocre - at best. By all means, I think Coleman would be a great appointment for Sheffield Wednesday. For us.

Could’ve attracted an even better move he performed as well as he did in L1. He ought to be thinking ‘what if’ he had stayed. The consolation is, as you mention, a decent wage for 4 years.

I work in logistics, and even big businesses are struggling to get their operations up and running. It’s been a difficult week so far - but exactly what we expected. For what it’s worth, EU exporters are also struggling with the new regulations. But, industry will adapt to the disruption and...

I don’t do any of the Dry Jan or Stoptober. I was more of a typical binge drinker at Uni, rarely having a casual beers. I’ve got a few nice draft beers from Beer52 to enjoy during the Cov games over Jan!

Biamou, Godden and Walker all have scored more from open play then... Not worth 2 million at all.

Sometimes, it’s just better to not get your hopes up...

Just when you start to think we cut out the silly pens...

That’s why Shipley is in the team. The most likely of the ACMs to score a goal. Well worked goal and Dabo has had a stormer!

But, we’re not just a medium sized country. Britain is the 5th/6th largest economy in the world. Other countries are going to want access to our economy too - it’s a non starter. There are companies that will invest in Britain. For example, Aldi have pledged to invest £3.5bn into the UK to boost...

You can travel for 90 days in a 180 day period visa free. That was good news for me as I like to travel a lot. Longer term I think I’ll apply for an Irish passport. I imagine expats will have had to sign up for settled status within the EU as EU citizens had to remain in the UK.

Not really, there’s plenty of historical examples, such as the break up of the USSR. No Deal wouldn’t have increased trade with the EU, you’re right. Realistically, changing arrangements that have stood for 47 years would obviously cause some disruption whilst the market adjusts. Even with a...

I agree, it’s Johnson’s trademark - the exact same thing happened with the withdrawal agreement. This government, unlike May’s, was actually determined to leave without a deal. In the short term, it would’ve been more damaging to us than to the EU. Boris’ mandate was to deliver Brexit, this was...

Services is one of the areas the EU hasn’t managed to create a frictionless single market itself. Service don’t also don’t attract duties in the same way other goods do. So the impact of Brexit on services is more limited than you’d probably think. Personally, I’d rather us stay in the EU...

I believe Leave could definitely have won again. There’s polls that suggest Leave would still win. He had a the unenviable task of uniting a pro-EU, metropolitan voters and the pro-Brexit traditional working class, blue collar voters. With hindsight, failure was predictable. His ultimate...