Season › 2024-25 › News Everton Stadium to host Rugby League Test Match 26/03/2025 91comments | Jump to last The new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock has been confirmed as one of the three venues hosting an England v Australia Rugby League test match this autumn. The Kangaroos will take on Shaun Wane’s side in three matches at Wembley, Bramley-Moore Dock and Headingley on 25 October, 1 November and 8 November, respectively. Reader Comments (91) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Danny O'Neill 1 Posted 26/03/2025 at 11:56:50 Someone mentioned it earlier this morning, but you'll like this.Everton hosting the 2nd Rugby League Test Match at BMDEngland v Australia on 1 November. See yer, Old Trafford. There's a new kid in town. Now for NFL and some concerts. Paul Hewitt 2 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:14:49 Danny I don't think BMD is big enough for the NFL. Spurs stadium was built with the NFL in mind. If TFG had been in charge when BMD was being built, I'm sure it would have been built to suit. Brian Wilkinson 3 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:30:58 This is great news, our stadium hosting the second rugby league test match on November 1st.With so many rugby league fans attending from around the country, it might make the council get their finger out for better transport links to and from the stadium.If this is a success, I can see the rugby magic weekend moving to our stadium next season, instead of Newcastle.Better start swatting up on your rugby league, Danny! :-) Brent Stephens 4 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:32:01 I bet it was, Danny! Liam Mogan 5 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:34:17 I'm pleased that M62 corridor egg chasing is coming to BMD. There'll be a huge influx of meaty 11 fingered guys in polyester, eating pies, all buying their own individual pints and impressing the ladies that weekend. Brian Wilkinson 6 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:42:20 One things for sure Liam, when a player gets hit at rugby league and stays down, you know he has been hit big time, not see any going down clutching their face after a tap on the shoulder or half a team surrounding the ref.Everton first for me everytime, but I do enjoy watching rugby league. Paul Hewitt 7 Posted 26/03/2025 at 12:52:23 Brian, Totally agree. It's in the perfect place for the magic weekend for all the teams. Except Catalan. Neil Cremin 8 Posted 26/03/2025 at 13:37:18 Not too pushed on Rugby League Test matches at BMD but to veer significantly off topic. This article on BBC website really has us down as a small club.Which is the biggest football club in Britain? Colin Crooks 9 Posted 26/03/2025 at 13:41:12 Oh no!! Wool Ball!!!What next? The Coopers Hill cheese rolling and wake? Liam Mogan 10 Posted 26/03/2025 at 13:54:29 Brian 6, I'd never make my comment to a Rugby League player! They are massive.I think it's great tbh. More stuff like this will raise our profile. Allen Rodgers 11 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:10:46 My one and only visit to the pit was to see Widnes vs Wigan in the days of Martin Offiah. We were in the Kemlyn Road where the seats are made for schoolkids. There was a nice looking empty bar behind us and we ventured in to be told it was for Liverpool supporters only. I tried to explain it's a rugby match but the steward said it don't matter it's for Liverpool fans only. Even the bar staff were telling him to let us in! Paul Hewitt 12 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:24:15 Alan @11. That would have been at the old ground, Naughton Park. On my memory, it was a dump. Paul Hewitt 13 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:26:02 Sorry, Allen. Spelt your name wrong and got the ground wrong. Danny O'Neill 14 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:39:01 Brian, I'll be that annoying person asking too many questions as to what is going on!! I know it's England, but if I wear colours, do I go St Helens or Wigan? Or half and half?Not that I've followed the sport too much, but my closest team would be Widnes.Noughton Park, I remember it (from the outside). Now the Halton Stadium, described as a purpose built rugby league, football and American football stadium.Paul that's so French-ist. Or is it Catalan-is?!!I think we could host NFL. Tottenham has just shy of 10,000 capacity on us.I'm not sure whether safe standing can increase the capacity like it does in some European football stadiums.Either way, it's great that we are going to use the stadium for other events outside of Everton and generate revenue. This and the Euros. Hopefully it's just the start. Andy Bulmer 15 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:47:26 I was at a Lenny Kravitz concert some years ago and sat behind 2 huge black guys so couldn't see a thing. Know who they were? Martin Offiah and Jona Lomu! I should've asked for a fucking stepladder let alone their autographs! Danny O'Neill 16 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:49:31 Andy, you've just reminded me. Way back when, Martin Offiah was sponsored by a local Widnes garage. His car was recognisable by the words "Be a flyer with Martin Offiah" appearing on the sides!! Allen Rodgers 17 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:53:38 No problem Paul, speaking of old grounds Liverpool City RLFC used to play at Knotty Ash. Later they morphed into Huyton RLFC. I went to a couple of games at Alt Park I think was the name. MBeen to all the old grounds like Knowsley Road, Naughton Park, Fartown and the magnificent Central Park now sadly a Tesco. Never watch rugby now of either code. But I will make an exception for games at Everton, of course. Mark Murphy 18 Posted 26/03/2025 at 14:54:28 Good news - the Grand Final will be another good money earner in the future as well. I'll be going to this game with my koppite brother in law (who, as I constantly remind him, was an Everton fan until they won their first European cup and chose to defect)He was dissing BMD on Saturday night before I went to the test. He'll change his mind when he sees it for real. He'll probably change his colours again as well!) And I'll make him wipe his feet before he goes in.Danny, England RL play in white and red, but most RL fans go in their own club colours, so in your case, Black and White for Widnes. Wigan play in a horrible, dirty cherry and unwashed white rag that looks like a used sannypad!🤢I used to enjoy the GB Lions v the Kangaroos – they were massive games often played to full houses at Wembley. I don't like the new “home countries” teams but I suppose there are less Welsh greats in League now than in those days.“ be a flyer with Martin Offiah" appearing on the sides!!.”Didn't Roger Hunt have similar on his car?? “Be a cunt like Roger Hunt”ps: The Saints – now there's a proper marching song!!! Les Callan 19 Posted 26/03/2025 at 15:18:37 Well, there won't be any players rolling round in agony as if struck by a 10-ton truck when they're accidentally touched by an opponents finger nail. Rob Halligan 20 Posted 26/03/2025 at 15:37:51 Don't let this happen… it's a football stadium not an egg chasing stadium. Kieran Kinsella 21 Posted 26/03/2025 at 15:40:08 Les"Well, there won't be any players rolling round in agony as if struck by a 10-ton truck when they're accidentally touched by an opponent's finger nail."Oh so they're playing rugby union then? I thought the OP said it was rugby league. Liam Mogan 22 Posted 26/03/2025 at 15:42:45 Think Dyche would make a good rugby union coach as he certainly knew how to boot it for touch. Liam Mogan 23 Posted 26/03/2025 at 15:46:21 Mark @18,There was also that famous car 'be an absolutely horrible Genesis punching bell end with no redeeming features, like Steven Gerard' Les Callan 24 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:06:17 Is that your idea of irony, Kieran, or have you totally missed the point? Paul Hewitt 25 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:24:12 Mark @18. The GB v Australia tests in the '80s and '90s were brutal. Great days. Micky Norman 26 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:28:30 The second best sporting venue in the UK is without a doubt Castleford Tigers' Mend a Hose Jungle. What a place! It's Stone Age… but when the Tigers have a chance of a win, it is fabulous. Scott Hamilton 27 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:32:58 Made up about this. Extra revenue for the club and hopefully the shape of things to come.They can host the World Tiddly Winks Final™ there for all I care, as long as it's a sell-out and we make loads of dosh to spend on players. Jon Atkinson 28 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:39:03 Who de we play at home the week after? Pitch will be a right state.For the paltry income, fuck it right off. Danny O'Neill 29 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:42:26 It's going to be the way forward.Quote from the interim CEO, soon to transition to overseeing stadium development, Colin Chong:“As well as being home to Everton, our new stadium was built to also host world-class sporting and entertainment events. Securing an international fixture of this magnitude demonstrates Everton Stadium's status as one of the UK's leading venues.“The rivalry between England and Australia in rugby league has a rich history, and we are excited to welcome fans of the sport to our city and our stadium which will offer an unforgettable experience in a state-of-the-art setting on the banks of the River Mersey.”It seems we finally have marketing objectives to make the most out of the new stadium.In terms of concerts, I'd like to see a further re-union of the Stone Roses play there. And if the Beatles are good enough for Manchester City, to hear Mersey Paradise being sung at the stadium would be something. I actually wouldn't object to it being played in the build-up. Very apt for the setting. Scott Hamilton 30 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:44:45 Just as well you're not in charge of anything to do with the stadium, Jon!Spurs host a couple of NFL games in October each year and it has no effect on the pitch (but plenty on their bottom line). But, hey, nothing like ‘bloke in the pub' logic when it comes to these things… Danny O'Neill 31 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:51:32 Jon, how else do we maximise the potential of the new stadium and generate much need revenue to help us compete?We won't know who we're playing until the fixtures are released, probably in July? We could be away the week after. Who knows?For me, this is a positive, even though I have no clue about Rugby.The pitch will be recovered and maintained. Like other venues used for events other than football, they seem to manage it. I don't remember Goodison having problems when Bellew fought there with fans ringside on the pitch watching with a boxing ring parked in the middle. Mark Murphy 32 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:52:11 I think Kieran is being a bit of a Rugby snob, Les. I hear it all the time down here from the chinless Home Counties boys and their fags. Liam Mogan 33 Posted 26/03/2025 at 16:57:09 Isn't Union for fat lads and League for fit lads? David Peate 34 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:01:23 I recall a few visits to watch our city's rugby league team in the 1940s. It was called Liverpool Stanley and played (I think) at the old police ground in Prescot Road. Stanley was a dreadful team – unfortunately always bottom of the league. Mark Murphy 35 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:29:38 Scott, isnt the NFL pitch at Spurs the one that rolls under the stands when not in use?So the footy pitch wouldnt be affected at all in that case? Shaun Parker 36 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:31:20 Theyll bloody well ruin the pitch 🙈 Brian Wilkinson 37 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:35:20 Danny wear what ever colour you like, rugby league fans are spot on mate, but can always wear a Wigan top to please me :-) Scott Hamilton 38 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:43:38 Mark - Not sure mate but Jon is still talking out of his arse!We want The Killers playing on the pitch on a Saturday and us playing European football the following week. All that cash equals new players and no points deductions! Kieran Kinsella 39 Posted 26/03/2025 at 17:59:44 I was just joking about rugby league. I didn't mean to get everyone's knickers in a twist by alluding to the fact it is a virtually non contact sport for those with a low pain threshold and a limited attention span. No offence meant… :)More importantly, is another revenue generator. Maybe we can entice a few England football international matches up there too. After all, they've played many at smaller much less impressive grounds in recent years. Liam Mogan 40 Posted 26/03/2025 at 18:03:57 Anyone but The Killers with their sole song. Do they play it over and over for 2 hours? Paul Hughes 41 Posted 26/03/2025 at 18:39:19 Sounds like good news for me. Another revenue stream. Not worried about the pitch - it ain't Rugby Union with 16 giants in the scrum grinding it up.There's been Rugby League games at Old Trafford for years with no discernible impact. Roger Helm 42 Posted 26/03/2025 at 19:37:56 Should be Great Britain v Australia, we need all the help we can get. It is a good sport, I was a season ticket holder at Cas before I emigrated, but at an international level it is no contest. The RL World Cup format is that every team plays each other then Australia beat England or New Zealand in the final. Brian Wilkinson 43 Posted 26/03/2025 at 19:53:40 Speaking of colours Danny, rugby league fans on a jolly lads outing or final wear whatever, Ive seen all kinds of costumes from Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, bo selecters scary spice and even some with long wigs dressed as Frank Gallagher, they go for the enjoyment and banter, so if you want to wear a blue dress and ruby red shoes, you will fit in with the rugby lads, but your dog might be a bit big for toto.Its all a great Day out, them Aussies are big buggers and can certainly play rugby, be a few sore limbs coming off the pitch at full time.Whether you like rugby or not Danny, the Day will be great with a mixture of fans from all over, without any trouble and plenty of banter. Mark Murphy 44 Posted 26/03/2025 at 20:05:35 “Danny……. can always wear a Wigan top to please me :-)”So would he be Antonia de Sancha to your David Mellor, Brian?? Paul Ferry 45 Posted 26/03/2025 at 20:22:13 Jon (28), you can check on line quite easily. The next home match after the RL is not for a decent 14 days on 8 November when we welcome Bristol City to the dock. Alastair Donaldson 47 Posted 26/03/2025 at 20:48:42 At last some proper tackling and no play acting! Paul Hewitt 48 Posted 26/03/2025 at 21:41:28 Alistair @47. Unless you play for Wigan. Mark Murphy 49 Posted 26/03/2025 at 21:57:38 PF - sorry, I dont get that?Why Bristol City?Have I missed something? Paul Ferry 50 Posted 26/03/2025 at 22:29:25 You mean the quadruple winning world champs Hewey? Have some respect for the most successful team in the history of English rugby league mate. Paul Ferry 51 Posted 26/03/2025 at 22:33:59 Mark, I know you grew up a short distance from the city, but irony mate, taking the piss, popping a sardonic jab at a post? Currently7th, perched on the edges of the play-offs, with the same number of points as 6th, The Robins could well make a league appearance at the Dock next season! Mike Gaynes 52 Posted 26/03/2025 at 22:46:40 Clueless Yank question... what's the difference between rugby league and rugby union? Brian Wilkinson 53 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:04:22 Mike g rugby Union is like British bull dog, everyone can pile on, in rugby league you get 5 tackles to make in roads up field to score a try, if a player is tackled the opposing side have to get off the player, then the player continues to play the ball through his legs to one of his team mates behind him, on the 5th tackle the team with the ball will kick it upfield, then if the other team collects the ball, they then have 5 tackles to try and get upfield and score a try.The ball has to be passed sideways or backwards, or is it a forward pass and the other team get possession.If a player knocks on by dropping the ball forward, its a scrum and the opposing team will put the ball in the scrum, which always goes to his team mate.If a player is injured or play stops, the ref tells timekeeper to stop the clock, then time resumes, once the 80 mins is up on the clock a hooter goes to end the game, then the ref will blow for full time.None of this 6 minutes added time rubbish like footballThere is a sin bin for 10 minutes for a bad tackle, and a red card if one of the players get clothlined with a high shot. Kieran Kinsella 54 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:17:08 MikeI like Brians more thoughtful explanation but as youre a Yank Ill explain it in US terms. Rugby league is like flag football. Rugby union is like the short lived XFL. Les Callan 55 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:33:24 Kieran @ 39. Definitely a wind up merchant. John Chambers 56 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:33:58 Brian, they actually have 6 tackles. It is only after the 6th tackle that possession transfers between sides, but usually the ball is kicked after the 5th tackle.Also Im not sure how a RL scrum can be called a scrum! 6 players of each side stand around gently leaning on one another and the ball is rolled to the one at the back to pick up! Brian Wilkinson 57 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:41:40 Forgot to add Mike a new rule brought in this season, each team has one captains challange, where they can get a decision looked at, if successful they keep the 1 challange, if unsuccessful thats it for the rest of the game.If only football brought in the one captains challenge per team rule, then if unsuccessful, any players surrounding a ref can get penalised.Bruno reffed the game at Goodison, time he spent in the refs face. Kieran Kinsella 58 Posted 26/03/2025 at 23:51:00 Les 55You got me mate sorry I couldnt resist. Honestly Ive never watched rugby league but I grew up with a father who hated it for some reason and tried to force me into rugby union which honestly I never enjoyed playing. I was all about football which my old man also hated. Paul Ferry 59 Posted 27/03/2025 at 00:22:35 Didn't you grow up outside the north Kieran which, I assume, would have been a rugby league desert? I, too, never enjoyed rugby at school and did cross country to avoid it and actually got rather good at cross country (erm 4th in Northern Schools championship!), Mike Gaynes 60 Posted 27/03/2025 at 00:27:21 Thanks Brian and Kieran. Which is the one where they alternate punting the ball over the sideline for position? Not winding you up, I really don't know. The sport never grabbed me except for the rugby sevens at the Olympics and the aforementioned Jonah Lomu, who was one of the most spectacular athletes I ever saw. Paul Ferry 61 Posted 27/03/2025 at 00:35:16 Mike Gaynes, I admire your laudable wish to know, but there are so many other things on this earth deserving of your knowledge and intelligence than rugby league! Si Cooper 62 Posted 26/03/2025 at 00:57:01 Ill be looking to get a ticket for this. We knew the stadium needed to be able to host diverse spectacles. An international Rugby League game is fine by me.Our Dad was a multi-team sport appreciator and so thats what we grew up to be. Rugby union is the game Ive played the most - front-row tussling suiting my build, temperament, stamina (with lack of major pace and severe lack of general fancy footwork reducing my alternate sporting careers) - football (Everton) is the one I am happiest to watch through thick and thin, and rugby league is one I greatly admire when it is played with the flair it deserves (Saints fan).Mike Gaynes, if you consider the variety of normal body types rugby union is perhaps the archetypal ‘team sport, with a variety of diverse specialist positions that means ‘fat guys will be helping giants jump directly upwards to catch a pitched ball whilst human battering rams or willothe wisp types are arranging themselves to receive the ball and make their attempt to penetrate the ranks of defenders who will do their utmost to literally stop them in their tracks.As stated by others, competition for possession of the ball in union (as in football) is constant whilst the ball is in play.Lineouts and scrums are union ‘specialty restarts were 16 very hefty ‘forwards form phalanxes to melee for possession of the ball and so a union game could easily shred a manicured footballing surface, but rugby league is more of a general athletes game so the pitch should be fine for just one game. The multi-match Magic Weekend could be much more problematic, especially if the surface was soggy.You can punt the ball to touch for strategic reasons in both codes, but union can devolve into kicking duels where the object is not actually to put it out of play but to induce a mistake and end up playing the game in an improved attacking position. Kieran Kinsella 63 Posted 27/03/2025 at 01:13:35 Paul FerryYep Hertfordshire. Union stronghold. One “older kid” from the local team I played for made it into the England team during the Dallaglio era. But I was more focused on trying to be the next Trevor Steven. His career plan worked out better than mine. Si Cooper 64 Posted 27/03/2025 at 01:57:29 PF - well youre rooted in a town where the local union side (in better days, before the prestige migrated eastwards) has had multiple internationals - including league internationals - play for it, including 3 of the World Cup winning team.Not those three but Matt Dawson (England / Lions scrum half- union), Adam Jones (Wales / Lions prop- union) and James Graham (England/ GB prop- league) are recorded as Everton fans.Union isnt the sole preserve of ‘snobs who only love union. Paul Ferry 65 Posted 27/03/2025 at 04:28:47 I don't believe that Si although, to be fair, I do have a dig at the English lads, calling them public schoolboys, when I'm sure its way more complex than that.I once bumped into Matthew James Sutherland Dawson in the Mons believe it or not and had a really nice chat. I recognised him not from rugby but QOS though. He was born in Birkenhead, I think. Mark Murphy 66 Posted 27/03/2025 at 06:34:08 Mike Gaynes - thats Union.My dad always said Rugby Union - the only game where the ball spends more time in the crowd than on the pitch!Tbf that was then - its different now and since professionalism, faster and better. Also tbh I enjoy both codes, as did my dad ironically, he was a BIG fan of the Welsh team of the 70s (who wasnt??)I prefer League - though thats probably due to my bias thanks to Saints - but really enjoy the six nations. I wouldnt watch a Union club game though.The issue I have with League is that theyre always trying to speed it up - the emphasis is on entertainment (too much in my view) but its is much faster and dramatic. Union is more a game if chess. My problem with Union is there are far too many complicated rules, including that recent one in the Wales game that outlaws hurdling a tackle!Both codes have changed and are much more athletic nowadays. I can still remember the days when a Chisnall or other big fat bloke, would trudge up the middle of the pitch with three blokes hanging on to him trying to stop him making 5 yards. Then the Aussies came…. The fit, fast, skilful Aussies and literally transformed the game of league.Ive seen St Helens beat Australia on a muddy Knowsley Road before that transformation. I doubt even the best Saints (Or Wigan, or Leeds) team of modern times would get near them.St Helens is my home town and the Rugby League side is one of the best in history (THE best in Super League) and make me proud, but fail into nothing when I think of my love for Everton. Ive seen Saints win finals and wished I was at Everton.UTFT and NWOTS Mark Murphy 67 Posted 27/03/2025 at 07:02:48 Mike, not sure youll get this but did you hear of the Dyslexic Rugby League coach who signed Joanna Lumley?X John Keating 68 Posted 27/03/2025 at 07:27:01 Well need every bit of outside help to pay the bills as TFG will be skint soonTrump putting a 25% tariff on car imports will bugger up Toyota, therefore TFG.Itll be embarrassing if the Japanese car maker cuts back on potential stadium sponsorship and cant afford the full TOYOTA Stadium name and cuts back to just TOY Stadium Alan McGuffog 69 Posted 27/03/2025 at 08:17:10 Mark...Jonah Lomu ?Anyway as an honorary Saints man having worked in Sint Hillins for over twenty years I appreciate how the game has improved over the last twenty - thirty years. I still have a fondness for Eddie Waring and Grandstand in the 60's. A load of big lads, some up from the pit, rolling around in the shite. Marvellous !Now as a league man you've likely seen this, and I can't do links ( although I do like a Cumberland ) but check out Castleford v Wigan Commentary on You Tube. I think you Yanks will love it too. Aaah can't spake ! Brian Wilkinson 70 Posted 27/03/2025 at 08:37:28 Alan, if you want to see a game on youtube type in 1981 Huddersfield v Wigan at fartown ground.6 players sent off, Huddersfield had a tall coloured guy Tony Johnson, who went through 3 Wigan players and set up a try, after that he got clothlined around 3 times and eventually got taken off for his own safety, some of those head high shots were brutal, never seen a game like it for a player having a target on his back. Paul Hewitt 71 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:02:25 John@68. I had this worry when Trump started putting tariffs on imports. We never get a break. Dave Abrahams 72 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:06:38 Wasnt the record attendance for any sport in England played at a rugby ground for a replayed rugby league cup final ——Osdal stadium in Bradford in the 1950s —-Were Warrington one of the teams? Paul Hewitt 73 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:15:48 Halifax v Warrington. 103000 people attended Colin Glassar 74 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:24:56 John #68 if trump gets his way, it will be the Metalloinvest Stadium. Paul Hewitt 75 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:34:31 I actually thought Trump did a decent job first time round. But he's having a nightmare at the moment. Danny O'Neill 76 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:35:32 John @68,It will impact them. Not just their Toyota business, they also have holdings in Lexus.But the remainder of their portfolio of 21 companies would seemingly be unaffected, so I am sure the bank account is still healthy.Ironically, I had to BBC News on this morning and this announcement came a day or two after the South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai, announced a USD $21BN investment in the US (Louisiana). Now, that could be seen as appeasement, but knowing our Donald, it will justify his actions in his own mind. Mark Murphy 77 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:44:16 “Cumberland” “links” nice one Alan!Yes, Jonah Lomu, but I guess the joke made more sense at the time he was around and league clubs were poaching union greats. Now its tuther way round! Ex league greats are even coaching the international teams.I know the video you mean- some darts commentator plagiarised it recently. I googled it as “dirty Wigan” and had to trawl through thousands of vids until I found it…https://youtu.be/o58stoJJ5No?si=xYNIMTgIv539yEb-Ah cont spake indeed. Liam Mogan 78 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:46:55 Brian 70 - the 14 who got sent off near the end for Huddersfield, Steve Lyons, used to work in my college.A man with some rather 1970s views. Probably be at home on ToffeeWeb tbh! Danny O'Neill 79 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:57:08 Colin, imagine Trump Towers, Liverpool towering above Bramley Moore Dock!!!Paul, the difference between then and now is that there were checks and balances around him. This time out, he wields absolute power and has surrounded himself by hypnotised, fawning lapdogs who hang on his every word and agree with everything he says.I could loosely liken him to a certain despotic 20th Century Dictator, but I won't. We can get away with Trump given the potential impact on Everton's owners, but I don't think 1930s Germany should be discussed here!!!!Mark, wasn't Jonah Lomu about 18 stone and could run an olympic standard 100m? There's only one thing if that is running towards you. Close your eyes and hope for the best. Mick O'Malley 80 Posted 27/03/2025 at 09:57:31 I absolutely cannot wait for this, I love watching Rugby league and adopted Warrington Wolves as my team as I work with a lad who is mad about them, and they play in blue, I also have a soft spot for Leigh leopards, to be honest I'd watch Rugby league over any football match unless it's Everton, same with the NFL I can't get enough of it, all I need now is Bramley Moor to host a Queens of the stone age concert and I'll be delighted Mark Murphy 81 Posted 27/03/2025 at 10:10:38 https://youtu.be/nkzEI4juSZc?si=wo0Q1XFC9QVZ2MEaBrian - just thuggery from both sides. Shouldve been easily more than 6 sendings off and that “tackle” on the black lad was bare faced assault that the ref saw and ignored. Just in case anyone missed it, this was a SECOND division match. Thats a trophy Wigan have won that St Helens never will…Liam, the Wigan number 2, the lad who kept getting ignored when Wigan had the ball, and who notably kept out of all the trouble, is my cousin Barry Williams. Brian Harrison 82 Posted 27/03/2025 at 10:34:35 I think our new CEO said the stadium would be used for other sporting events and also concerts. Now being American owned I am sure Friedkin may well try and do a similar deal to what Levy has done at Spurs with them hosting NFL games, the big difference is Spurs have a retractable pitch which makes hosting non football events so much easier. The Rugby league Ashes game against Australia has already demonstrated the pull of our new stadium over Old Trafford who would normally host this event. As many have said no feigning injuries from these guys, a treat to watch compared to the antics of nearly all Premier league players.I remember in Moyes first reign he allowed St Helens Rugby league side to train at Bellfield, and Moyes commented of how there were no tie ups or bottles of water left on the training ground as the players had picked everything up, and he said the changing rooms were spotless after the players left. Paul Hughes 83 Posted 27/03/2025 at 15:07:45 Paul Ferry (59) - the Northern Schools Champs at Lyme Park! 4th! Bloody hell, you must have been swift as a youngster. I usually came in 4th or 5th “counter” for St Eddies - probably in 100th place or so.Avoided me having to play rugby, though. Brian Wilkinson 84 Posted 27/03/2025 at 16:25:23 Mark, Wigan never won the division two title, they finished runners up to York that season in 81, went most of those games in the second division, Wigan full back George Fairborn was player coach, he got them promoted then they sacked him as coach, he then left to play for Hull Kr. Mark Murphy 85 Posted 27/03/2025 at 18:08:37 So they couldnt even finish best of the rest! Another totally related matter.Im in Tier One of the BMD waiting list but havent heard anything yet?? Do the club send us an alert when we qualify??? Tony McNulty 86 Posted 27/03/2025 at 18:49:38 I'm in the same boat Mark. Sounds like they will get in touch as soon as you reach the stage of eligibility to purchase. I'm sure you've seen the attached: https://www.evertonfc.com/content/waiting-list-faqs Mark Murphy 87 Posted 27/03/2025 at 19:25:41 Thanks Tony - I guess I just have to wait. Im in Tier one is all I know. I thought Tier ones would all be released by mid March.Mate of mine just got his today, in the North Stand by (his) mistake. He says the only south stands left are right up in the Gods! A guy next to me last Sunday says it very scary up there!! 🫣Is there a seat plan to show what seats are still available??I need to build up to when I tell my missus Im spending her housekeeping on a ST! 😬 Paul Ferry 88 Posted 27/03/2025 at 20:08:22 St Marys Paul H (83). Yes I remember waving at a Paul Hughes as I lapped him. I might have come 4th PH, but the winner was already dressed and showered when I crossed the line. Danny O'Neill 89 Posted 27/03/2025 at 20:21:30 I seem to have something in my head that all season ticket holders have until end of March, then they move to members.But don't quote me. I've given up with the tickets page on the club site. Many members can't get tickets as they're being sold to god knows who. And the cheeky shits are still offering membership for the rest of this season!I submitted an online note, complaining and highlighting that tickets were appearing on websites at inflated prices. There was one for City within an hour going for £350.I asked them not to give me a bland response. I got a bland response, advising me not to use those websites and report it to the club.I just had!! Alan McGuffog 90 Posted 28/03/2025 at 16:02:33 Mark, Didn't your namesake get the "early bath" following a proper fist fight with Sid Hines in the Challenge Cip Final at Wembley many years ago? Paul Hewitt 91 Posted 28/03/2025 at 20:48:09 Warrington v Leeds, been a great game. You really can't beat a game of Rugby League. Allen Rodgers 92 Posted 29/03/2025 at 10:04:07 Alan @90 — you're a little confused. Alex Murphy' s skullduggery got Sid Hynes sent off in the Leigh v Leeds Rugby League Final of 1971. The incident also caused Murphy to be stretchered off and allegedly he winked to the cameras en route. I bumped into Murphy years later at Knowsley Road and mentioned it, he just gave a wry smile. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb