I likely to be more global than super league

Toronto
Toulouse
Catalans
London

will Catalans still get Saturday night tv coverage
Toronto get premier sports

this could be a good thing and definitely different from the last 10 years

All cr@p fixtures.Do hope we win the MPG

Agreed. Way out of my budget to go see all these. More importantly will cost the club in lost revenue at home and travelling costs will also increase compared to previous years.
Not sure on us reaching MPG . Mind you I didn't honestly think we would make top four!!!

Also what about the players being part time.
Might not be easy for them to get time off work.
Agree attendance figures at home will be shocking.

Joke sport.

providing we win this week London and fev we should be in the mpg

If that scenario occurred the total away support for all those four fixtures wouldn't reach 200. An absolute joke the way our game is going. How do the RFL expect clubs to survive with income streams reduced by such lack of away support? How are supporters going to be able to follow their club away from home? It just proves once again that the game below SL is inconsequential to the powers that be and we all know what happens when you build a house on sand.

www.rugby-league.com/article/508 ... or--season Its things like this that peeve me off. Why is it that the RFL and the 12 SL clubs agree on the structure of next years league. the structure effects all clubs, probably the lower league clubs even more yet we never get a say. The RFL do not give a sh*t about lower league rugby

www.rugby-league.com/article/508 ... or--season Its things like this that peeve me off. Why is it that the RFL and the 12 SL clubs agree on the structure of next years league. the structure effects all clubs, probably the lower league clubs even more yet we never get a say. The RFL do not give a sh*t about lower league rugby

Could get some live games next year as Freeview sports launches tomorrow with championship rugby on its schedule.Great unless it means a return to Thursday nights...

Playing devils advocate - but do championship clubs bring that many away fans? Do we take many fans away?

What is most worrying to me is that the North American clubs will be fast tracked at the expense of existing clubs - should they go pop or, with luck, start their own successful league. What will be left to replace them?

Sneer at Bradford, if you wish, but most clubs will miss the Bulls in Div 2 next year.

Rervers, Fax, Fev bring significant numbers. The rest - nowhere.

It's measured in hundreds, but with several away games this year, we've matched or bettered the home team support numbers. For some clubs, that's very welcome revenue.

It's a spin off from Premier Sports, for 'championship', replace with 'Toronto'.

We'll probably find Newtown are going to be in the Championship next year.

Along with a team from Pluto.

...or some other Mickey Mouse club.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

BRILLIANT

Hurrah !!

we'll help out - could be heading you way



Or you could have Cats

There's a good chance we'll be losing Rervers, anyway.

The joke is you are reliant on away support. If you cant cope with the pressures / financial challenges of the Championship, drop down a level to something more suitable, after all the Championship is the second tier of rugby league, involving clubs aspiring to Super League.

We're not reliant on away support, although it's good to get a few more pennies into the bank when the likes of Bradford or HKR come to town. The main problem for the likes of Fax next year is having (possibly/probably) 3 games in another country (Toulouse, Catalans and Toronto), plus a trip down to London. Tough on players who have other jobs, tough on supporters who like to go to every game, and probably tough from a financial perspective unless the RFL are covering all the expenses for those away games.

...other than that, games against teams with next to zero away support can be a bit of a damp squib. Unless the home team really puts on a performance, the lack of an away team support to generate some atmosphere can result in games feeling very flat. We've played fantastic against some teams, put 40 points past them, but walked out of the ground feeling deflated - for sport to be enjoyable you need a good opponent, and either a massive home crowd or less numbers but with some friendly and noisy rivalry between them.

I find crowds distracting.

Out of touch.

The real joke is the greedy Super League clubs that can't cope with the pressure / financial challenges of Super League and are the first to moan about crowds being down and if they can't cope they should drop down to something more suitable instead of proposing to rob the rest to pay for their shortfall.
They don't want the Championship clubs to aspire to anything other than serve their selfish agenda such as another round of closed shop RFL favorites as will be proven when the changes are announced for 2019.