He should stick to the Columbian Marching Powder that he likes so much.

On listening to his show, it sounded like some had allready been taken

At the point where one of them said, 'There's only 3 balls left in the bag..,' I thought they would follow it up with, 'Oh dear, there are actually 4 left.' Complete farce.

Its the Challenge Cup 5th round, nobody cares. Even rugby league fans aren't bothered about the Challenge Cup at this stage, the stadiums will be half empty, people don't get interested till the semis as they are focused on the league. Actually no they aren't they don't care about that either as they only care about the playoffs.



Stop getting worked up about this like its the Ashes or the Champions League.

Dear RFL if you want to achieve low, aim low. Next time invite a couple of well known RL fans (Rooney, Ferdinand, Wiggins, ANYONE) to do the draw and broadcast it over the web with selected highlights of the previous rounds.

But it still should be done professionally by a BBC station.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s1d7h

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s1d7h

And that good friends is the sound of a nail being hit squarely on the head.

I am sure your complaint about people complaining took just as long, if not longer to write.

If you had tuned in you'd understand why people are annoyed and, dare I say, perhaps a little embarrassed.



If it doesn't matter and nobody's interested then we should perform the draw behind closed doors and publish it on the RFL website. However, if you're going to broadcast it live "to the nation" on the BBC then it should be done properly. Not just Richard Bacon's fault, though he was incredibly condescending, because the RFL presumably arranged this. I love the sport but felt distinctly uncomfortable throughout those few minutes.



But then again, I've always found cup draws rather exciting and continue to place just as much prestige on the Cup Final as the Grand Final.

I know the RFL caused the global banking crisis according to some on here, but how on earth can you blame them for that? They turn up with the trophy and a cup legend, explain the whole process to them, then do a practice run. What more can they do?



On a different note, Steve Mcnamara has just been on the Chris Evans show (9.5 million listeners) talking about the World Cup and the semis at Wembley, making sure he got the fact that tickets are just £20 in. Straight away people were texting in to ask if that was correct, so hopefully a few people will buy tickets as a result. But of course the RFL won't get any credit for organising that.

About 1:35 in.





I certainly wouldn't blame the RFL. If anyone is to blame then it's Richard Bacon, and his production team. They managed to produce several minutes of apparently unrehed, amateurish and cringeworthy radio which would have sounded just as poor whatever the topic. Sadly the topic was RL.



The BBC give the impression that RL is a 'job' that they don't particularly want to do but have to do. Perhaps, for each round, a few players should be available to go buying and selling (at a loss) antiques from antique fairs. Others could do a bit of cooking, maybe some ballroom dancing or research their family tree. Maybe then we'd get better RL coverage even if it is only as the background story as to why Kevin Sinfield has decided to prepare Confit of salmon with new potato & crab crush & dill drizzle.

Maybe our parochial 'oh look someone's giving us attention' attitude holds us back.

Maybe sponsors hold back because we're the biggest bunch of moaning f'kers in world sport?

My mind always goes back to Paul Younge saying that



In contrast though the interview with Chris Evans which I mentioned above was brilliant and did the sport justice.

Completely took the p*ss