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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‘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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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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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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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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