But for a game which requires so much in television rights what is the point of developing an area where so many don't have one?

While I hesitate somewhat to use the word "charity", there could be a definite element of charity in their inclusion. I feel that we can't view everything in terms of simple commercial rights, including the TV income.



Although, when all the soot-flecked peons of Yorkshire form massed huddles around the aging TV sets to wonder at the moving images which depict their team visiting wondrous distant places, there is a distinct opportunity for local street vendors to hawk simple trinkets and foodstuffs to those gathered there. It could provide a stimulus to the moribund local economy, and encourage some small measure of entrepreneurial spirit.

I don't think you can expect top quality professional players, who can earn big money, to spend time in such backward places as West Yorkshire simply in the name of developing the game. The security required to protect the top stars from the local people of Castleford and Featherstone (I believe many of the latter live in trees) would outweigh any potential benefits unfortunately.



The only possible solution I can think of is for players representing the Yorkshire XIII to be based in somewhere like Oldham and 'bussed in' on matchdays.

You know whose fault it is? All this talking back to the referee comes from Sam Tomkins. Players are seeing him do it and it's crept into the game from there.

If Leeds lose to Hull next week and Salford beat Hull KR, then that makes Round 23's Salford vs Leeds match a lot more interesting as the winner will take 8th.

It's certainly something to think about, Browny. But would the natives feel any real connection to a team based in such a far away place, with such alien values and behaviours?



I've heard it said that the people of Yorkshire are innately suspicious and frightened of the world outside their borders. Images of their team surrounded by the modern technologies and clothing fashions of the outside world may be too startling for them to accept, possibly even driving them back, terrified, into the dark and rutted undergrowths of the Yorkshire terrain.



That would obviously incur the wrath of the international aid agencies who strive so admirably to bring them medicines and care. All that good work could vanish in an instant if they flee in terror from images of aircraft or trains etc.

having had the misfortune of 'visiting' Fev several times i can confirm this is true. Children (naked except for the left over cradboard boxes from crates of Skol Super fashioned into loincloths) would jump from Trees pleading for the mearest scrap of hearty, quality food from 'the magical places beyond the great wall' as they put it. I later learned this is the name given in the local religion to the prosperous lands west of the pennines. truly heartbreaking.

That is rich coming from someone who supports a team from the utopian, upper class metropolis that is Widnes.

humourless lot these leeds folk



suspiciously defensive about Fev also

I'm happy to defend it as long as I never have to go there!

Are there any teams in Lancashire?



There are a few scouse teams, and a couple from Cheshire but not actual Lancashire teams, oh and one from Greater Manchester