Perhaps if the member clubs did't have to support such a large white elephant, I don't mean Nigel's food bills - they too would be solvent!!

Out of interest, what do you see as the RFL's biggest failings? For me, whilst the RFL undoubtedly has some, the biggest factor holding the sport back in this country are the clubs themselves.

We have clubs that can't produce their own, quality players.
We have clubs that can't pay tax bills on time.
We have clubs that have barely invested in facilities.
We have clubs that can't grow their attendances, attract new audiences, or grow revenue.
We have clubs that have to offer their primary shirt sponsorship as a raffle prize.
We have clubs that think that "marketing" is giving tickets out like sweets.

And Koukash thinks that these clubs should be running the sport?

It's time that we stopped using the (admittedly imperfect) RFL as a lightning rod for some frankly terrible management at club level.

This is the biggest load of bull - the RFL's priority is the wider good of the game and whilst that will often align with the priorities of the 12 Super League clubs it won't always, particularly when it comes to matters financial. They need funds to pay their development teams and fund the community game. The SL clubs don't exist in some void where the rest of the sport doesn't exist; they are just the twelve who happened to be sitting when the music stopped.

You could just as easily say the 12 Super League clubs should stop piggybacking off the RFL for the work it funded in developing the players they use. That they should stop piggybacking off the amateur clubs who put in the work, mostly for free and for which they receive a grudgingly-paid pittance. The SL clubs are nothing without the wider infrastructure of the sport - or would be after a few years or so.

There are two or three, at most, clubs who have shown themselves capable of operating with anything like the financial discipline of the RFL since the 2000 World Cup. They have every chance to show how to make Rugby League a commercial success and almost all fail miserably year after year. And Koucash thinks we should let them 100% run the show (instead of only 80% or so now?)? Pathetic.

The amateur games spins off the professional game just like it does in every other professional sport. Kids want to play partly because of the stars in the pro game. The amateur clubs don't raise players for some altruistic desire to support to the SL clubs. They do it because that is their hobby - that is what the enjoy doing in their spare time. Getting players signed by pro clubs is positive externality of that process not the end game. This is not funded by the RFL they are self funded, they do a hell of lot better job at developing participation that the development teams at the RFL.

What work do the RFL do in developing the players that play for the SL clubs? You may have a point with a few in London but that is it - the NRL clubs has done a lot more in developing SL players than the RFL ever have. Players get into the professional system and the financial burden of developing players 16+ has nothing to do with the RFL

There was a survey done on concussion in sport - guess which sport didn't have any data? you guessed right RL - so what are the RFL doing if they are not even collecting data on a potentially life changing aspect of the sport?

Perhaps if the RFL did a better job at promoting interest in the games and could negotiate meaningful commercial deals - the Eddie Stobart deal is but one example of their commercial capabilities then the professional clubs would be in a better financial state. If you genuinely think that the SL clubs could not negotiate better deals that Nigel and his cronies then I think you are naive.

The RFL is not fit for purpose - it is not delivering on its key objectives and needs some fresh blood and huge culture change.

No part of RL in this country is delivering on their key objectives (or what should be their key objectives). The SL clubs hold the power. They hold the vast majority of the money in the game and they do sod all of use with it.

I don't know how clubs that can't be bothered to get off their backsides and market themselves in any basic sense have the nerve to attack the RFL.

The RFL isn't very good, but if we want better we have to pay for it. We need a bigger, stronger RFL based in London and with a significant staff base.

But that means less money going to the clubs. Will Koukash be happy with that? I doubt it.

Just when you think Koukash may be actually using his brain by hiring Sheens and taking a bit of a step back, he comes back again proving he still has no idea how to run an RL club and he should be absolutely nowhere near running the sport. We'd have crashed and burnt inside 15 years and there'd be little left of us.

We must be the only industry in the world where someone who spends money investing in their product will run it in to the ground and the one taking a million a year out is the sustainable one.

Best selling job I have ever seen that GH and Caddick have managed to convince so many to argue with such vehemence that they are doing us a favour by taking millions of pounds out of the game and putting it in their pockets whilst Koukash is a profligate playboy who will destroy us all by taking millions out of his pockets and putting it in to the game.

Batsh|ttedry at its finest.

Caddick & Hetherington are the problem. Koukash is the solution.

You'll be able to back up that claim about them "taking a million a year out of the game" with figures from the accounts then, yes?

Otherwise, you're going to look very. very silly.

Director's remuneration in the Leeds CF&AC 2015 accounts was £200k by the way. Between 6 directors.

Any dividends?