http://t.co/WhC091O2ie > The Sun will soon know where you buy your cans of lager. probably also a guess at your local #creepy #bigdata — Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) July 31, 2013 So, the Sun is on the move. This was a bit of a surprise to me, what with News reorganising to separate the UK papers…
Read More Get involved.OK, the worst Rugby League structure proposal yet. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that the two bottom teams will be relegated from Super League at the end of 2014, regardless of which teams they will be. There could even be three teams relegated if the clubs decide they want Toulouse in…
Read More Really.So, I managed to get to watch the Grand Final on Saturday night! The first pub we tried had a private function where the TV is, although it also had Timothy Taylor’s Landlord Ale, and the other bar contained a group of Irish union fans who’d been drinking steadily since 6am. We moved on, and…
Read More Leeds. LEEDS. Leeds. (Look, you’re the richest club in the northern union. Get a better song)Championes… Keighley 32, Workington 12. Yeah.
Read More keighley keighley boing boingA bit of Rugby League blogging. It’s been a weird start to the season. Not so long ago – but after more than a few games – London/sorry/Harlequins RL were top of the league. (Regarding the name, I’m not the only one. I saw a Fulham RL shirt at this weekend’s game.) And the top…
Read More a little rugby league bloggingIt seems horribly fitting that, with the Tories back in, Wigan have started winning the league again. I mean, not that there’s anything wrong with them. It’s just the effect of the years when they won literally everything, year in, year out. And Maurice Lindsay, of course. If we have to have Wigan though, I…
Read More baaack…Extremists. I can’t help but think this is a contribution to the ongoing debate about hero-of-the-blog Diego Gambetta’s work on engineers and terrorism. If stuff is upside down before you start the riot, fire, explosion, etc., your extremist cell could probably do with more engineers. Meanwhile, the SELF THOUGHT SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST guy next to him…
Read More mildly amusing roundupAs this blog battles parochialism, I feel obliged to tell the world that Keighley Cougars have started their doomed bid to stay in the Northern Rail Division One by beating Whitehaven 17-16. Can we win by a cheeky dropgoal? Yes. We. Can! Never mind, the future’s uncertain and the end is always near. Which at…
Read More this will mean nothing to most of youWish us luck at 3.05 this afternoon. Keighley are in their first final since 1996, against Oldham, for the right to be refused promotion out of the second division (sorry, Co-Op Championship One – we’ve got title inflation, too). Update: Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. 28-26, after 4-6 at half time Now watch us…
Read More 99% of readers will find this entirely meaninglessSo, what did the great blood crisis mean for London Rugby League? Well, either quite a bit or not much; I went along to the last home game of the season, against Castleford, and to be frank, either it completely wrecked their morale, or else they were so awful that no external influence could have…
Read More headless in Twickenham