Good win for England with Jacks doing the business at the end.

Alan, from tday, does your treatment involve "loads" of anti-biotics, or something more sophisticated?

Spit-he is the perfect replacement for Reeves who will be 33 in May and out of contract

Would be dreadful if he didn't, definitely earned a squad/team role for next season. Let him earn his stripes in a better division, I think he's going to cope well enough.

Would be a shame if we don't get to see him[Link] as a regular first team player for us.

CW if your interested bulls are at Sevenoaks tonight live on YouTube 730

$6m man- totally agree, I think that the problem for rugby is that the interest in professional club (as opposed to international matches or amateur playing teams) rugby is pretty small at the top level (very few crowds above 15k) and minimal once you get below that, so there simply isn’t the money in the system to sustain a proper league structure.

Without promotion and relegation, what is the point and where is the ambition? Unless you are in contention to win the league, it just becomes meaningless, akin to friendlies against the same teams year after year. Pointless and futile.

It seems a bit like Rugby League, lots of changeable criteria so mates can be let in (Wasps, Worcester) but not the Hoi Polloi (Ealing, Cornish Pirates)

In other news, interesting to see rugby union planning to end promotion and relegation to their top league. Sort of makes the point of how much bigger football is than any other sport when even one of the 2 or 3 biggest sports other can’t sustain a proper league system.

The “no politics” rule (together with the departure of certain posters) has been a major factor behind making this place much more pleasant- it would be nice to stick to it. There are a load of other places to post if you want to argue about politics.

Correcting an error Spit with my views not included.

Maybe it’s because they are busy with season tickets sales for next season

6 million-that is pretty shoddy what do we pay the ticket office staff for.

Does anyone know if the DTb have received the mayo review into the potential failings of the 2025 DT elections?

All of this politics posting is 🥱💩🤮

For those who may be interested, Stevenage tickets are being distributed by our tichet office, not theirs. Our ticket office unilaterally decided not to offer a collection from Plough Lane option because there are always uncollected tickets. So? Tough on the people who did not collect them, given they had the option to have them posted out and chose not to or relied on them being available to collect on the day. Now those of us who can be bothered to collect them (there are even two home matches between now and Stevenage to do so if you don't want to make a special journey) have to pay extra and roll the dice on the uncertainty and unreliability of the ticket arriving in the post.

Turn it in OI, you know the wup rules or is that only for me :-)

NO POLITICS

The referendum wasn't should we drop FPTP, it was whether people would prefer the Alternative Vote system instead. That is the problem, opinion polls seem to show a majority for dropping FPTP but no agreement on what to replace it with.

DO, maybe that was because it was in the vested interests of erm about 68% of the population then?

Leddy - we had a referendum in 2011 and 68% of votes were for status quo.

The fear for Starmer is that enough 'left-leaning' Labour voters will now actually vote Green following last night's result; while enough 'right-leaning' Labour voters will switch to Reform - resulting in Labour losing up to half the seats they currently hold.

FPTP should have been dropped in 1983 when the SDP won 25.4% of votes but only ended up with 23 seats. The UK and Belarus are the only countries in Europe to use it.

Time to drop first past the post?