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Dreadful pedestrian last set after they took the lead. No way to close out a game. Just handed York field position.

So it's DIY score-lines in York? The petulant accounting still doesn't add up. Final score was 20-16. And you're also wrong about the call. Liv Gale lost it cold, after the tackle was complete. Camera angle from behind the goal showed it clearly.

This is an observation rather than a gripe - Thought the ref should have called more ruck infringements in the first half. When defences are too good, we need a quicker ruck. Can understand why refs let things go, but the consequence of leniency is defenders start feeling entitled to slow it down even when they lose the tackle and floor. Saw the difference, second half.

Not according to my abacus.

Best to take one's leave section by section. I've flounced off Politics and Australian. Both vintage displays.

That was noticeable last night. Likely be more noticeable against the big 3. Fair assessment. Unfortunately. Anna Davies gets better. Genuine strike player.

Who's the other one?

Yep, I posted something about her (wildly off-topic ) in the Hull KR Ground thread. What I meant was I don't recall seeing her play. Although I will have, in the Tarsha Gale final against the Dragons.

Full-time Wigan 18 Barrow 4, Leeds 66 Huddersfield 4

There are mismatches between top-half teams and bottom-half teams in every division in every sport. In RL, as we know, disparities are cruelly magnified on the scoreboard. Early signs are that Huddersfield haven't closed the gap on the big three. Wait and see with Wigan. Wire are the big disappointment. Over five years after they formed a women's team it's clear the club are not yet prepared to do what's necessary to take them to the next level. If this year the women's team of a club the size of York put 70/80 points on the women's team of a club the size of Warrington, certain blokes should be feeling rather embarrassed.

Leeds predictably running away with it against Huddersfield. It was 0-0 at half-time Wigan v Barrow. Home side on top second half. Rease Casey is in the Wigan starting 13. Don't know too much about her, but the pedigree indicates she should be a major addition.

Brilliant John Barry theme. Another trip on the Moog Modular after On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Didn't know it was still going. Says on Wiki that The Now Show was regarded as a successor to The Mary Whitehouse Experience. I saw it as the replacement for Week Ending. Augmented with traditional Home Service comedy-show elements. Had plenty of good moments. Never the unchecked belch of Leftist propaganda that The News Quiz became. Although any young comedians given a slot were careful to pay their conformist dues. Lest they go on the blacklist and lose work on the circuit.

The proportions in this collage make Kenneth Cope look like a potential Hai Karate victim. Behold the trauma of puny blokes as Valerie looms large. Breach of human rights, cruel and unusual punishment. Where do I sign up?

Halfway through Maelstrom. The lead actress Tusse Silberg is Swedish. Not a trace of an accent. Looks and sounds every inch the archetypal middle-class metropolitan Englishwoman. Born in 1931. Her character Catherine was born in 1955. Quite a gap. Wondering if the reason Catherine isn't depicted as older is related to the plot. The dolls are bringing back memories of Hamble from Play School.

Completely off-topic - Wigan have Rease Casey in their squad. She's a Queenslander, came through the Roosters Indigenous Academy under-19s pathway, followed by a spell with Wynnum in the BMD QLD Premiership. Played for Western Clydesdales in the first two rounds of this year's comp. Would be interested to learn how this signing came about.

Most highlights I've seen in recent years have been in the stadium at Craven Park. The CC game against Leeds a few weeks back was on a park field. Must be the one out the back. Related note - I'm assuming Wigan Women are still on to debut at the DW on Friday. RFL Match Centre has Robin Park listed as the venue.

Hard to judge Saints at the moment. All their 2024 competitive games have resembled attack training drills. Certainly look slick and fluent. Hope they don't clam up on Sunday. A tight game favours York.

France 58 Greece 0 Not the complete massacre I was expecting. Seen the first half, which ended 28-0. Familiar story for a team like Greece, limited by their skill levels. Defensively solid, but no shape or coherence in possession. RU-style too-deep dummy-half passes to an often static first receiver. Meaning ball-carriers are sitting targets. Hence, no momentum, no platform. If they watch the game back, the Greeks could learn most from French play around the ruck and down the short side.

You mean most people in Yorkshire. Saints v Wigan for the more sophisticated supporter.

Yep. Finito. Can only repeat that I don't think we're intended to fully fathom the ending. Apt that @Futtocks should mention Children of the Stones. The bit right at the end of Dark Side of the Sun where another version of Lavalliere appears is reminiscent of the new Hendrick persona (Sir Joshua Litton) arriving at the manor in the final scene of COTS. Implication being that all the foregoing events take place in a time loop. Extra footnote - I know the Greek actress Betty Arvaniti was also in Who Pays the Ferryman. She's still a lot more recognizable than her credits would warrant. Best guess as to why is that she looks very like Sylvia Sims.

I've decided Dark Side of the Sun is one of those "Sphinx Without a Secret" affairs. Akin in that respect to The Prisoner. Perfectly content with an elliptical narrative. Don't need everything neatly tied-up. Can enjoy the journey without a definitive destination. I cited a couple of provisional reference points in a previous post. Alongside historical themes, could now add Bilderberg Group conspiracy theories, Rosemary's Baby, even Dracula. You mentioned teleportation in your synopsis. This, and other paranormal elements featured, can be dramatized as real, then explained away as products of hypnosis or delusional psychosis. Several times I thought we were moving in that direction, only to veer off again into the supernatural. Couple of mundane footnotes - Ambivalent about Peter Egan's performance. Accent a bit wonky. Whenever he smirked, couldn't help thinking of Ever Decreasing Circles. Fine in deadpan sinister mode. Would maybe have been better with someone like the bloke who played the drug baron in The French Connection. Perky 1983 disco up at the castle. A Flock of Seagulls, China Crisis, Aztec Camera. I'd run out screaming if they played any Spandau Ballet.

Used to get a lot of bowlers like him in local league cricket i.e. fall somewhere between spinner and medium-pacer. Not many could fruitfully ply that method in County cricket let alone the Test arena. He had it down to a fine art. Heard a number of Aussie batsmen say they hated facing him. Constantly nagging away, always there or thereabouts. Seemed to get under their skin like Boycott did the Aussie bowlers. Those Kent teams Derek Underwood was a vital member of were instrumental in one-day cricket's halcyon years.

Watched the first two episodes more or less back-to-back. Reminding me of the John Fowles novel The Magus. With possibly a soupcon of Night of the Demon. Could all change, as the series progresses. Certainly be sticking with it.

There's something about that sky that cries out "Summer of 76".