NO NO NO NO NO KNOWSLEY ROAD

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GIANTS fans must be gutted after St Helens decided to rename Knowsley Road.
Saints' battered old cesspit will now be known as the GWP Recruitment Stadium.
Really trips off the tongue that.
And in doing so the wise old heads at Saints who raked in some cash have knocked off Huddersfield from their perch as the worst stadium name.
Featherstone's Chris Moyles Stadium runs them close. Awful name, awful human being.
But the Galpharm (self-harm would be more appropriate at the moment) is now officially consigned to send place.

SLIP SLIDING A-WALES

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SOME slippery thoughts on the second Millennium Magic weekend..
First up what a try-tastic, try-errific feast of rugby. In the home of the best rah-rah side in Europe, ahem, there were 62 tries scored in six games - that's 12 more than the entire 15-game Six Nations.
Wigan fool-back Richie Mathers will never want to see one of them again after being swatted off rather pathetically by Jon Wilkin in the final encounter.
And there were at least two other tries scored in that game that I blame entirely on the awful playing surface.

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YUKNOWSLEY ROAD

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FUNNIEST incident of the week that didn’t involve Dwain Chambers?
That Richard Moore interview after his monstering performance for Wakefield against Harlequins.

Apart from the fact there was something weird stuck to the side of his head, the big fella managed to use the phrase ‘you know’ 22 times in two sentences.

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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

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AT the risk of sounding a bit like Stevo here..have we just witnessed the game of the year?
I’m talking about last night’s thrill-a-minute contest between Warrington and Saints.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game where both teams looked capable of scoring every time they got their paws on the ball.

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COFFIN FIT

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‘RUGBY League is a punta’s graveyard’. That’s what the text from my mate said a couple of weeks ago.
I’m assuming punta was textspeak for punter and not some misspelling of an Italian two-door motor.
I’ve just deposited a little bit more into the ever-swollen funds of the Stan James betting organisation after Harlequins’ remarkable comeback against Cas in the Challenge Cup.
It’s the sixth bet on the bounce I’ve lost on the handicap and I’m not the only one scratching their heads and lobbing the form book out of the window and kicking the dog.

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WORST PAST THE POST

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CONGRATULATIONS to the sloths at the RFL on the appointment of a new Customer Service Centre Manager (whatever that is).
They’ve decided to bring some youth and vigour to the role and as you can see below the new man in the job is already swotting up.

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HENRY PAUL: AN APOLOGY

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APOLOGIES to Henry Paul. Pre-season I said he was past it.
Well as Warrington and now Hull KR will testify he’s far from it.
Missing Mark McLinden and Scott Hill for both games and Danny Orr for the Wire slog, Paul has been asked to step up and he’s done it.

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KEITH MUFF

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INTERESTING to see the latest Rugby Leaguer looking down its nose at the Daily Mirror.
In the Upfront editorial about Dwain Chambers’ hilarious attempts to make it in RL there’s a sneering reference to a Mirror headline and ‘that particular tabloid’.
Well, the Cockney cowboys on Mirror sport certainly have many faults. Many many faults.
But one thing even they wouldn’t stoop to is the level of schoolboy tomfoolery the Rugby Leaguer exhibits on a caption for a Pennine League game.

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RL DOWN THE DWAIN

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THANKS a lot Castleford. Thanks for making rugby league a laughing stock.
Inviting Dwain Chambers into the fold is the most shameful act of the season.
Our game doesn’t need a posturing ex-drug cheat and by the sounds of things nor does Cas coach Terry Matterson.
The whole sorry affair had the hand of a used carpet salesman on the board trying to make a name for himself.

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HARRY GRATION'S BAD JUMPERS

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I KNOW it’s always easier to knock something down rather than praise it (unless you’re Mal Meninga).
But why is the greatest game served by such average television?
Boots ‘n’ All manages to make the Super League show look like the most professional thing on the box since, well, The Professionals .
But that doesn’t mean to say the programme isn’t just all a bit naff.
Starting with the opening credits where that famous Hull KR player Paul Cooke is seen picking out his winger with one of those trademark 30-yard bullet passes.
Great, except he’s playing for former club Hull. That immediately dates the whole show.
It’s a bit like those betting shop windows still showing Alan Shearer in his Blackburn Rovers kit alongside Andre Agassi and his bad mullet.
Then Harry Gration appears in his atrocious leisure wear. On atrocious furniture.

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