Love rugby has an article saying there. Could be 3 relegated from super league in readiness for the 2 leagues of 10 teams season 22/23. Next we need a real effort to cement or credentials
There is also an item about Premier Sports showing Championship matches next year. No cash mentioned but presumably there should be something for the clubs. This could help a move to FT at some point.
Good time for us to take a leap forward!
Love rugby has an article saying there. Could be 3 relegated from super league in readiness for the 2 leagues of 10 teams season 22/23. Next we need a real effort to cement or credentials
Love rugby league is a shock and awe site.
Totally ridiculous claims from a cheap journo who loves his negative garbage
Take no notice
Well maybe we need this headline confirmed by James Gordon
If you actually read it, its in the gossip column.
Also, it says there would be a play-off between a SL and a Championship side.
In any case, we need to focus on finishing in a high enough position to not worry; don't really want it going to the last game of the season with us needing to win to secure SL2.
It certainly looks like the game is being led by the nose by Sky to having two leagues of ten. Whilst every team in the Championship will be clambering to get their snouts in the Sky trough, has anyone given a thought to the 16 teams that will be dumped, potentially including Widnes? Is this a way to expand the game?
Before clubs below SL go for this, they should seek assurances about the central funding being allocated to the ten teams in the second division. My bet is the real motive for this change is that a few favoured clubs - and I wonder who - will continue to live in the part of the trough with most slops and the rest will be left living on scraps.
A super League ll would be in name only.A glorified second division.The money involved for the clubs wouldn't match it's grand title.
TBH I think that the 'expansionist' argument is dead, what we have now is a 'survival' argument. You have to get your nose into the trough to survive!
In the final countdown, as has been batted about on this forum many times, the final out come could be a simple split between the Full Time TV league and the Part Time Rugby League.
The man who pays the piper calls the tune and there is no shortage of club Chairmen who will dance to it rather than them spending more than they can afford.
The Premier Sports re-entry into the discussion might see another scenario, but the integrity of the game itself comes second to funding and survival.
You may well be right, but if that means 16 teams being discarded with no support or future, then it simply cannot be good for the game.
What will happen when Wigan, Warrington or St Helens lose their respective benefactors and they end up bouncing around the bottom of the second division for several years? The answer is that they too will be discarded.
The RFL should be looking at ways of trying to save the game and that should incude all current clubs below SL, but those clubs also have a responsibility to plan for sustainability and growth themselves, if possible. If not, then they will almost certainly disappear by their own actions or inaction.
Sadly all that we seem to be able to see is the TV as money provider. The option of building crowds seems to be ignored, particularly by odd game times and so on. Lenehan quoted Wigan's falling attendances in his summary of the club's need for a serious review of its future.
If we really have come to the point where actually getting off your backside and going to the game is considered to beyond us then the game is well and truly up!
In essence we have reverted to the start of SL where the cost of running a club is more than the fan base is prepared to pay, even including wealthy patrons 'investing' big money. The NRL clubs used to have their Leagues clubs with the pokies, and these days I understand that they still have their Member subscribers, many of whom are not active supporters but get benefits by being a Member.
Widnes did try the Stronghold idea which didn't seem to attract sufficient support. I couldn't really understand that tbh, I recovered my money simply on garden purchases! Others presumably didn't!
VIQI is simply a begging bowl to which I, and many others happily contribute.
Things like these all need strong marketing, which usually costs money, but its either get these things really moving in the struggling clubs or the game will slide even further.
There are very few visiting supporters these days and that hits the club pocket. Inter club recognition of ST's could help but with so few clubs on the west of the Pennines it probably wouldn't help a great deal.
Love rugby has an article saying there. Could be 3 relegated from super league in readiness for the 2 leagues of 10 teams season 22/23. Next we need a real effort to cement or credentials
Love rugby league is a shock and awe site. Totally ridiculous claims from a cheap journo who loves his negative garbage Take no notice
Your obsession with me is quite concerning. Go stalk someone else. Ta.
If you actually read it, its in the gossip column. Also, it says there would be a play-off between a SL and a Championship side. In any case, we need to focus on finishing in a high enough position to not worry; don’t really want it going to the last game of the season with us needing to win to secure SL2.
Looks like it'll have to be top 7 to guarantee a remain in Championship.
Some sort of play-off going to take place between teams 8-10 and the League 1 champions for the 20th spot.
Featherstone and Leigh are pushing the Championship winners being able to have a chance at promotion, no surprise there.
If the SL teams going down get a parachute payment then there is no point whatsoever of the leagues. What will happen with promotion and relegation?. All well and good doing this but with no warning it stinks as clubs may have spent more on recruitment.
Take your point MG -
The only way that it would work sensibly is by bringing the TV money split nearer equal, that way the best team goes up and the poorest goes down but both have an equal chance next season in their new division, but the teams remaining also have an even chance of beating the new member.
Fev speccies would go down well at Wire!!!!
Looks like it’ll have to be top 7 to guarantee a remain in Championship. Some sort of play-off going to take place between teams 8-10 and the League 1 champions for the 20th spot. Featherstone and Leigh are pushing the Championship winners being able to have a chance at promotion, no surprise there.
Suppose if you are Wakefield or Salford for instance you aren't overly happy at that either....