The future structure of English rugby league was thrown into question on Monday night when the Rugby Football League opted to postpone Wednesday’s extraordinary general meeting of the game’s clubs. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... witterfeed

The future structure of English rugby league was thrown into question on Monday night when the Rugby Football League opted to postpone Wednesday’s extraordinary general meeting of the game’s clubs. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... witterfeed

Here we go again. Keep changing the rules as we go along. I have heard that the SL Clubs threatened to call a vote of no confidence in the RFL and so the RFL cancelled the meeting. Lenighan, Mcmanus, Hetherington are claiming the RFL have neglected the SL comp to promote and spend money on the World Cup and with crowds down etc are ready to go in to a power struggle for control of the game. These idiots at the SL Clubs only care about themselves and fail to recognize the RFL is responsible for many other areas of the game like Student, Wheel Chair, Junior and Womens rugby etc. The RFL are far from perfect and changes are needed- but not the way the greed of SL aim to do it. The game will get setback further with this war between SL and the RFL.

The SL clubs pushed for licensing so they can create a fantasy league. This all goes, predictably, belly up and allows clubs in and out of SL to wither away.

The RFL sits back and allows it to happen whilst failing miserably to raise the games profile and investment.

Who is the worst? The RFL or SL clubs?

Sorry SL clubs but you'll find sympathy follows sh*t in the dictionary.

What a mess our sport is in

Well it's all down to one thing, money, we have pretty much all raised this in our discussions on restructuring and how much money the Championship clubs would receive. It now seems that the SL clubs don't want them to have any cake so no big surprise, they will bring down the sport through short sightedness but Nigel Wood has probably already done this.

Anyone remember the Trust "RFL=FAIL". It's a pity the Club failed to back us then.

Oh so predictable to all bar those in charge. I despair.

It's some of the Super League clubs who are attempting to gain control of the game.
If they do the rest of us can kiss everything goodbye as the greed and selfishness of these clubs will dominate the rest and they will just keep voting for what is good for them and screw the rest of the game.

You can bet that some of the Championship clubs will have spent heavily on recruiting etc to be in the best place when the proposed new structuring came into place, if it doesn't happen they will be in big trouble.

ONE BIG RUGBY LEAGUE FAMILY. YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH.

Once again RL is held to ransome by some SL clubs, all about money and forget about the future of the game as a whole. How much money has the RFL spent on keeping some SL clubs afloat. Still have some RFL-FAIL t-shirts should we need them!!!!

They obviously don't want to share the money. In principle I agree. What is utterly abhorrent though is that failing clubs like Bradford, Salford, Wakefield and London are allowed to keep their status - and the money - whilst barring other clubs the chance to play in SL. It is a closed elitist shop. What makes me laugh is that some normally left-wing RL fans quickly extol the virtues of this elitist league because it's their club sitting at the top table. Their socialist ideals go missing. Horrible people, horrible attitudes.

Nigel pretending to' own ' something he had only ' borrowed ' again, it seems what he has sold to the Championship clubs, wasnt his to sell

Who better to run the game of RL than Super League clubs? I'd hand the Treasury Dept. over to the Bradford Bulls and i'd bring back Celtic Crusaders to look after player registrations.

Hull can look after crowd control, Salford youth development, London can provide the attendance initiatives, Huddersfield mergers and acquisitions and Castleford stadium development. What's not to like?

Many a true word spoken in jest!

I'm afraid game over!!. It won't be sorted until December at the earliest. If I was a chairman of a championship club I'd be out now for sure

These poor SL Clubs are struggling to afford 2nd rate Aussies and ex Internationals who want to finish their retirement funds by playing a couple of seasons in SL, all this after their best days too! they also can't afford to keep greedy players from going to Australia or Rugby Union, I think you're all being very judgmental and not seeing the bigger picture, they only want whats best for all of us, whats best for the game is for Saints, Wigan, Warrington and Leeds to beat Hull, Bradford, London and Salford every year and share the spoils and revenue from finals that all of RL can attend, and help make it look a sell out and very Super!, come on people, heads out of the Sand

All those doomsayers prophesising when Sky "took over" the game. Yep - it's happening.

With no real income through a dynamic international system the domestic top clubs rule the roost, very sad and will probably get worse before it gets better. Very sad.

Time for Championship clubs to stand tall and proud I think now the RFL is cowering in the corner....

Let's look to breakaway ourselves, get our own tv deal, sponsors and take the Challenge Cup with us!! It's a members trophy, doesn't belong to SL but the RL members, so we'd be able to outvote the SL to$$ers and leave them high and dry.

Time to take a stance in my opinion before the lower leagues are completely hung out to dry and left to wither and die. We're halfway there already sadly and we wonder why crowds are going down across the game....

Never has a product been so removed from the consumer... RL is on its haunches and needs CPR quickly

Looks like the game really is on the cusp of implosion if this escalates into a SL clubs v RFL war. The game as a whole has to be the most important in all this and not the current whim of those in power at the very top either in SL club world or the RFL.
These people should never lose sight of the fact that this game was created for the enjoyment of all that play/have played it and watch it and are yet to play and watch it,and not for the elite.
With no main sponsor, clubs at elite level going bust, star players leaving for union and the Australian dollar, falling attendances, diminishing column inches and tv exposure and general apathy, it's probably time for a revolution of some sort but that MUST include all stakeholders not just those at the top!!!!
Let's get back to Rugby League a family game!

It's an effing shambles.

Chris, im right on side with the breakaway thing, if it brings it all to a head and Leeds and Wigan think paying Football players wages is right for them then so be it. Championship Chairmen and the RFL need to show some balls and call their bluff, if these SL Chairmen think they can manage alone, good luck to them. Well see about letting them back in 5 years when it goes tats up.

I'm not sure where I stand on this, lots of people have voiced many opinions on Wood & Rimmer in the past and now everybody seems to be supporting them.
One of the things the SL clubs are saying they want is representation on the RFL board, this could be a good thing, there should also be Championship representation and community as well.
The current board have been unable to get a sponsor for SL so maybe the clubs would have a greater incentive to pull some money in.
What I would n't want is for them to close shop and this would be their biggest mistake, they need P&R brought back as in the long term the whole game would not be viable without it.
This may be way to get rid of Wood once and for all and I'm sure that many people would be glad if that happened.

Norman, that's a fair point on people suddenly favouring the RFL in this fight, I guess its the timing and the fact its an EGM on restructuring that's kicked it all off. Timing is everything here I feel, turkeys voting for Xmas etc Noboby would be surprised if SL clubs wanted to maintain status quo (or any other rock band) and keep their slice of the pie or want more. Business is business, these may be philanthropists, they may also be displaying sociopathic tendancies.

Agreed, guess we'll just have to wait until after the Sporting Event of 2013 or the RL World Cup.

It's probably more to do with not favouring what some SL clubs have done which is motivated by greed.
SL is going to 12 clubs and the money that is saved from the 2 that miss out was going to be distributed across the divisions now the SL clubs want it all for themselves.
It's amazing that very little was said against the RFL from the SL clubs involved until the world cup was about to start and the vote for the new proposals was imminent.
The timing was premeditated to cause the maximum impact so as to get their own way.