Mods instead of deleting a legitimate thread time after time how about we act like grown ups and offer a response. This board is dying as its become a joke and youre only adding to that.

The 'reporting' in the socalled RL press that has been discussed is click bait sensationalist rubbish that does the game no good. Frosties if you really are involved, that should be a concern for you that many think that. Be better than just deleting threads without reasoned debate.

Why does this thread keep getting deleted?

Without explanation it just undermines the credibility of the usually very effective moderation here.

One of the mods clearly believes in free press but that doesn't extend to here. If that's the way it's going, this board doesn't have long.

It does feel a bit over policed on here at times now.

That style of reporting isn’t unique to RL or that media owner. They extract a potential morsel of a story from social media post and then manage to spin it into several hundred, often repetitive words, that don’t actually tell you anything or put any further meat on the bones.

I actively try not to click on that sort of stuff on my FB feed now as I know it’s going to be a non story.

Morning all,

Thanks for the updates on threads being deleted. I'm not sure why the thread was deleted either I even commentated on one of these myself.
I can assure you it is not the mission of the Mods on here to delete threads without reason (believe that or not) I know Mr Southstander has been in touch with myself on here to ask a valid question about thread deletion and rightly so.

All I would ask is to please be respectful of the current situation with regards to Ritchie & Helen and accept my humblest apology for the deletion of the thread in the first place.

Any queries / questions regarding deletions / issues / queries etc can be forwarded onto the Mods and we WILL work with you to keep this board in rude health.

For my two penneth, most of these LL "stories" are gleaned from forums, BookFace and Twitter and pasted off as "scoops" or from "ITK" sources.

I dont bother with any of the FB supporter pages as they are an absolute sewer, you can call these "Elite" groups all you want but they are just full of trolls and knee-jerk reactionaries.

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Thank you for this response, it's really appreciated. I think the nature of the tabloid esque 'reporting' of Richie and Helens private life is what has prompted the response and calling out this type of rubbish.

see my post after, its the fact people think trawling message boards and rehashing dog poo "rumours" makes them a journalist. Press in this country is desperate to attract people with tales of scandal and clickbait.

Unfortunately the advent of social media makes it too easy to make a few quid with no integrity.

Whatever any of our players do (legally)in their private lives is none of our business!The Club pay them to play rugby and that’s the only area we should judge them on.
Thankyou mods for reinstating this thread.

I'll go again for the third time.

Leeds-Live in particular is absolutely awful. Poorly laid out, advert laden and not written well at all. Usually with a grabby clickbait title and no substance. Just rehashed from various other social media sources.

RL journalism is truly dire.

Click bait rubbish. Matt Shaw, Aaron Bower and Rugby League Live in particular.

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Any of these sites, which I believe are all owned by the same media company? The sites are unreadable. Just full of adverts.

So what do we get? We get a click bait article. Full of rubbish on a rubbish website full of adverts. Lucky us.

I hope these journalists don't get paid much.

If you want to avoid clickbait - and who doesn't? - the answer is pretty simple: Get your hand in your pocket and buy a real newspaper or subscribe online. If you don't even pay peanuts you'll be lucky to get Monkeys. Agree with much of what has been said, but only fair to point out that Matt Shaw has broken nearly every Rhinos related story over the last couple of years. Will be interesting to see whether that continues. It could be that his source has moved on.

What Rhinos related news has Matt Shaw broken?

One example that comes straight to mind is Sezer. Was talking about that months before it happened. I certainly wouldn't lump him in with the dreaded ITK, or whatever it's called.

Mmm!also the one who reported that Rohan’s first interview was “dominated by Mylers personal issues”?
As far as Sezer goes even a broken clock is right twice a day!Journalist?hardly!

There are plenty of other examples. I'm just not wasting my Saturday finding them. He was certainly very well thought of at League Express and Martyn Sadler (editor) was gutted when he left. I was also disappointed to read the headline you refer to. Poor stuff. Just trying to point out that it's not all black and white and there is some grey area in this discussion.

The less said about the League Express and Sadler the better.

The sport is a small local game - why do we expect serious journalists to cover it?

Sadler's last tweet was about how Hull were missing Gale against St Helens!!

IMO Shaw is about as good as it gets closely followed by John Davidson.

If Shaw is as good as it gets. God help us all.

Now leeds live's very own 'reporter'
W. Ankers (how very appropriate ) reporting that richie has 'dealt another blow' and unfollowed helen on Instagram. Get a job and stop acting like your name suggests.

Nobody else find the name Wayne Ankers funny?!

James Deighton (from the bbc?) seems the only one on the clubs pressers that is any good.

Matt Shaw seems to have deteriorated into a click bait peddler these days.

Not necessarily the reporters fault. It’s indicative of modern culture and editors trying to hit revenue targets

I do agree with that, its either report click bait style or get another job.

Which is why institutions like the BBC are so important- but that’s a debate for another day i guess.