Don't bring that trash down here!

Priceless!

live by the sword, die by the sword I reckon

does this mean we should be helping Swinton?

Yes, a fine club with a great tradition.

Yes, and Oxford, and Gateshead, and any other club outside SL

BUT, we also should have the final say on who joins us in the future

In the near future I can see the top 10 SL clubs breaking away anyway.
What the Championship needs is there own TV deal NOT to be shown on a Thursday night !

From a Doncaster fan.

Only knock out matches should be shown live, NRC or play off matches only, league matches should be featured in a highlights/review/preview Boots n All type show ( produced by the clubs themselves if neccessary ) idealy on FTA Tv that could sell sponsoship or arvertising a la Irn Bru with SL

You joking right? Franchising will always be open to interpretation and consequently being manipulated to suit those who are the judge and juries of it, as we know they slated our application or allowed it to be publicly ridiculed but how can anybody prove anything either way when its all cloak and dagger stuff?
Franchising lends itself to favouritism and corruption. Can't wait for the day it is binned.

I'm with you on this. Personally I think what rugby league needs is a fans show on TV in the image of soccer am. Without punters, you've got problems. take all the great conversations that fans are having in bars and car parks all over the land and put that into the public eye at a reasonable hour and let the game sell itself

I would love to see a footy show sort of show where you can see players personalities come through and see what they are really like in person instead of the boring post match interviews where they are basically told what to say.

But is this SL players? , or Championship players?

Because if its an ALL RL show, it'll be just SL only

would love it to be players from the championships and SL. It isn't going to happen but I think a show like that could only do good for the game IMO.

Yes it would, but from the Championship clubs point of view its time to be selfish, IMO they ( RFL ) arent looking out for us , time to look out for ourselves ( collectively the non SL clubs )

Completely agree.

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Totally agree.

Welcome aboard, apart from totally agreeing what else would you like to see?

Loathed as I am for Rugby League to follow football's lead on things but I do think we need a Soccer Am style TV programme sometime soon. Do you think Natalie Quirk from Premier sports has the charisma to carry it off? Stevo and Hemmings have had their day and Rod Studd is just sooooo annoying on Rugby League Backchat.

I don't think Natalie Quirk would be able to do it. I think the person who COULD do it is Brian carney with Jon Wells. And Brian noble would be great IMO its just a shame that he is coaching in Salford so he wouldn't be able to do it.

Premier could do something fairly low budget.

Would need someone with a bit of presenting experience, and a couple of guests, various RL journalists have shown they're capable of putting questions across in televised interviews during the World Cup, Gareth Walker and Natalie Quirk ect, then a player from a championship club.

Run through a few tries, talk about any issues affecting the game and the weeks upcoming games.

That it track down the production company who made Rugby League Raw and fetch that back on premier!

Now that was a good programme.

it'd only be once a week. i think you've picked a good set up there. take a lead on footballs example of giving recently retired players media opportunities cause let's face it, yeah stevo won the world cup 30 odd years before I was born, but he hasn't half been living on past glories. oh the irony that this is on a bulls thread as well

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news__vi ... stand-down Jokes. Lol

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news__vi ... stand-down Jokes. Lol

[i"When we took full control of the business – and most importantly the accounts from Mr Khan and Mr Sutcliffe's regime – we found that there were massive holes and that cash-flow projections were based on extremely poor forecasts.[/i

...and the Fax application was "speculative"...

No. We just had the front to put in an application that was stronger in places than some super league clubs, then called the RFL on it. All playground stuff!