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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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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FINALLY recovered after the sensory overload of three derby matches on TV in the space of 20 hours.
All three had to be watched while pretending to do some work which is not quite the same as sofa and Twiglets action but, well, it beats working in an office without rugby league on the telly I suppose.
First up it’s been pointed out to me that this blog was somewhat cruel to Lee Smith and his lovely bubble perm.
And if Smith’s barnet was bad, shouldn’t I have a pop at Sean Long’s new look?

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BRADFORD Bulls need to get back to what they do best if they’ve any hope of challenging for honours this season.
That means less of the crazy, one-handed off-the-cuff stuff and more of the bash ‘em up down the middle game.
They became the Bradford Bullies by doing just that but Steve McNamara, bless him, seems to think they have a Plan B of expansive rugby league.
Well no, they don’t. Not if Saturday’s display against Wigan was anything to go by.

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REMARKABLE, eye-catching and one in the eye for the Aussies..
I’m talking about the astonishing bubble perm Rhinos winger Lee Smith sported during that brutal victory over Melbourne Storm.

Was it just a wind-up to Keith Senior? Look, not only do I have hair but I can do THIS with it.
Or was it just special insulation to keep out the shocking wind and rain combo?

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