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Absolutely, nothing wrong with it.

Sure dude. I once rented a tuxedo for a wedding because there was a dresscode, and still a lot of people came just wearing jeans, nice shoes and a dress shirt. Speaking of, if you want to turn up all formal, just rent a suit instead of buying one.

Denis Suarez is an oddity to me. He jumped around so many academies I wonder who he owes the most to. Probably Man City (he was there during those crucial late-teen years), anyway I don't look at players as 'products' of one place if they've been to several academies. They all play a part whether positive or negative. For instance, the ground work for a pre-pubescent Lionel Messi has to be given to Newell's Old Boys. People are quick to say things like 'John Terry is a Chelsea graduate', well it's true but he did play at West Ham for a long time. It's really just semantics, you say Nolito is a Barcelona graduate, I say that the reserve team isn't the same as the academy. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day, whether they were there for ten years or one, it's more important which club took a gamble on them to be a professional first team player. For instance, is Olympique Lyon more important in the development of Anthony Martial, or is Monaco (the team that payed a pretty penny for a teenager and took a gamble on him in the first team)? You could say he learnt how to play at OL but Moncao is the team that 'made' him. And if that is the case surely it'd apply to Nolito as well, Algaida is where he learned, Barcelona is where he made it (...or was it Benfica...hmmm?). What other players are due to appear from La Maisa?

Because people don't see a punch in the face as a proper alternative to a punch in the balls.

Of course Super League will be associated with Rugby League and the North (probably because thirteen of fourteen sides in Super League are northern) but for years the RFL supported London Broncos, who were hideously mismanagemed once Richard Branson left them. To say it's down to a name that the game won't grow is totally wrong. There are 'expansion' sides in Newcastle, London, Hemel, Oxford, Coventry and Cheltenham (with more likely to join in years to come) and vast amounts of amateur stuff across the country. I don't think you can say it's purely down to a name that other sports have had success. Other sports have had success because they market their game and sell their game better than Rugby League, the name has little to do with it. Rugby League's biggest problem is that it's managed very insular. The powers that be are old fashioned, set in their ways and small minded. What a Rugby League needs is a lot of younger people at the top end of the game that can sell the game much better than the current bunch of people in charge.