But probably only in our local region. Most back pages are regional anyway, certainly from the Daily Mirror. Even from City to City you can find a different back page in Manchester from Liverpool. So if you saw Warrington on the page back winning the cup, that was probably only printed for Warrington.

I've still got the front and back cover of The People I had in my room at uni from the following Sunday, a photo of the team celebrating with the words 'Yes!' as the headline.

On the Sunday morning in London however, there was just a small box in the front page corner with Briers lifting the cup. Nationals have different editions, again in an attempt to attract sales. What might sell and be relevant news in the north won't be the same in the south for example. I agree, copies of The People in Warrington would have had that special cover and no where else. All to draw in those suckers who will be after the best cup final coverage from the previous day. Believe me, it worked.

We all have to pay our dues in this world Damo. I do it by being being ignored by an editor and have colleagues who take credit for my work. It is slave labour, but to reap the rewards you have to get your hands dirty from the start.

Its different for everyone.

Just been reading Dom Joly’s autobiography and he got his degree by the MI5 despite dropping out of University. Of course I don’t know how true that is but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was. I’ll have to ask him when I see him in September

first of all RL was never a dieing sport it was a open and honest sport were anyone could do well,you should'nt listen to people like linsey and caisely.

im struggling to see how RL is a growing sport.two thirds of its member clubs are now dieing on there booty and half the clubs in SL are living from hand to mouth.after all the money sky have handed over to them,it really is a shocking state of affairs.

once upon a time a lot of the written media was based in manchester and RL got its fair share of coverage,thats not the case now....thats why i say SL/SLE should re-locate to london,that way the fat arsed,lazy reporters dont need to travel far for a story.who knows it might help the london franchise as well.

Disagree....if it had remained as it was it would now be even more marginalised and crowds would be considerably down on current figures. Temper that with the new found professionalism (yeah right) of the other code and the player drain would have been devastating.

...if you were called Wigan

, I don't.


The number of people playing the game is growing. The bad nmanagement processes of clubs is neither here nor there.......more Kids are picking up a rugby league ball...that's got to be good for the game.

Funny, I always though that pre digital, it was the fleet street in London that was the heart of the UK Newspaper industry.....silly me, it must have been fleet street manchester


In todays media savy age, most journalists don't travel anyway. This is a social matter and has SFA to do with League.

Beyond help IMO........so long as the current management and backer is in place.

Sport in the UK = Association Football. Everything else is a minor sport, some of which are national, some of which aren't. As it is, so long as RL is considered a Northern Sport the column inches will shrink.
As for your Manchester Media argument....the BBC are moving to Salford are they not? Does this mean ther SL Show will get a prime time national spot instead of 3am on a monday morning?...thought not

I don't agree with newspapers, and news channels in general, so don't buy/watch them, but I bought about 5 copies of each paper that had Warrington on it last year and still have them, and always will do.

Never felt so proud

Sky pay based on how many coloumn inches in newspapers a sport gets? Silly me I thought they were more interested in auience figures and the last time I looked Sl was doing ok in that regard!

Do agree though that the RFL needs to get its finger out and be working more actively to get media stories covered. In fact I would suggest that they make it an edict that every club has to send at least one news story a day to RFL central who will then send them on to every media outlet every day. If the papers won't do the work then the RFL and clubs will have to.

Let's bring back ration books, national service and hanging whilst we're on a trip down memory lane shall we? Leaving our front door open all day, neighbours popping in, no trouble in the area, them Kray twins never hurt anyone that didn't deserve it...hand full of cold gravel for supper, living in a shoe box on the M62, getting up for work 3 hours before we went to bed.....jumpers for goalposts....the list is endless of how good it was back in the day........IF YOU'RE WEARING ROSE TINTED SPECS AND SKIPPING YOUR MEDS maybe

this post tells me everything i need to know about you..your a gobshite.
how youve come out with all this crap from that little bit of a post you've quoted is unbelievable.