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Marc Bazeley
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Journalism tutor at News Associates by day, the Shed Seven of rugby league writers and other nonsense by night. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/marcbazeley
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🗞 My latest Rugby League World feature, looking at the application process to join an expanded Super League, is now online.

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Oldham and Toulouse Olympique make their case for Super League spots – Total Rugby League
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My favourite thing about this how referee Robin Whitfield calmly trots over then gestures at Bernardin to get up after he's been ironed out all the way to HIA land.
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If Hull KR don't do a special WCC kit featuring a silhouette of Mark Broadhurst lamping Shane Bernardin then they're missing a trick.
Hull KR could bring out a special kit for the World Club Challenge, based on that they wore against Queensland, but it faces the risk of being nicked before getting here. #RugbyLeague
If you're going to waste half an hour, you might as well waste it listening to this...
This week: A crashed Vauxhall VX220, one of the worst cars ever made, and the role the girl from A-Ha's 'Take On Me' video played in British automotive history.

Listen below or wherever else you get your podcasts from.

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It’s the 50th anniversary of this iconic moment in English football.

Franny Lee and Norman Hunter have a difference of opinion at the Baseball Ground.

Bring yer dinner.
I've always felt the nine most terrifying words for anyone in British rugby league are: "I'm from the NRL, and I'm here to help."
🗣 "Yes, we could certainly have some great negotiations but we’re not here to negotiate, we’re here to help. That’s the difference."

💷 Peter V’landys says the NRL would never use the RFL’s World Cup debt as leverage – but it has to be repaid.

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V'landys says RFL must pay World Cup debt - rugbyleaguehub.com
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That time of the week again...
Do you like the VW Polo Harlequin?

Do you like it enough that you'd modify your Golf or Passat in the same manner?

Turns out some people do, as we found out on our latest episode.

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A few words from Wembley...
🗣 "A lot of union guys will be tuned in today to see the great sport that is rugby league, and I think we would have won a few over tonight."

🦘 Mark Nawaqanitawase and Angus Crichton on rugby's two worlds moving closer at Wembley.

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England vs Australia: Rugby's world in union at Wembley Ashes clash
SEVERAL of South Africa’s players preparing for this year’s Autumn Nations Series were there. So too was British & Irish Lions star Henry Pollock, fresh from helping Northampton Saints go top of the G...
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It's a good job the Cowboys traded away Micah Parsons to improve their run defence, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to stop RJ Harvey rushing for a 40-yard TD or JK Dobbins carrying for 111 yards for the Broncos last night...
A few reflections from the Ashes opener...
🗣 "We knew they were going to come hard early, but we had to weather it and we did a good job on them."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🆚️ 🇦🇺 Different bands since they last met, but the song remained the same when England and Australia met at Wembley.

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England 6 Australia 26: Different bands, but Ashes song remains the same
GOD only knows who Jon Bon Jovi thought the Australians were when he met them during their captain’s run at Wembley on Friday. Frankly, it might have been the most confused anyone from the world of Am...
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"The history books will have to be rewritten."

"What will they say?"

"They'll say 'Angus Crichton stepped Alex Walmsley and ran 20 metres to score'. Everything else will be a footnote."
The one saving grace so far is that the Wembley DJ is playing the Ramones over the PA at half time
Afternoon. Big game today, apparently
They've already had the players-only honesty session as well.

If this doesn't work then I guess all that's left to try is taking the ketchup away from the training ground canteen.
This is the best shonky on-screen death since Alan Bradley got knocked down by a Blackpool tram on Corrie
Believe me when I say there is A LOT for me and @ryanlambie.bsky.social to unpack here...
This week, we step back to 1984.

Patrick Mower! Pop psychology! Many, many -isms! It's all here on Central TV's coverage of the British International Motor Show at the NEC!

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If there's one thing rugby league needs to bring back, it's referees pointing firmly at the ground to signal the awarding of a try.
More to the point, do we believe anyone in charge has actually thought that far ahead?
So, errm, what happens in 2027? Straight 14 graded clubs? #RugbyLeague
Wonder what the Match Review Panel would have made of this...
As the build up to the Ashes continues- remember Big Jim winning a penalty in the second test?
More automotive weirdness and the usual other nonsense for your consideration...
Yes, unfortunately, we're still here.

This week it's a Honda Prelude and a Toyota Celica with some unusual modifications.

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The good news for Brian Callahan is he now has plenty of time to read up in the NFL Rulebook on what a catch is