Quote ="SRC"Just skimming through this thread, it has just hit home what a sorry state our great sport is in when the axe hangs above some great RL clubs. The axe is brandished by a faceless bunch of unelected administrators who continue to bail out 'experimental' clubs, but don't think twice about condeming more traditional clubs to a slow death.
I am not against 'expansion', but am against flogging dead horses at the expense of other, more worthy causes.
If the RFL go by their silly criteria to the letter, then Crusaders would be first for the drop, followed by Quins. Both will still be in SL in 2012 and that, for me, sums up how scandalous the sport has become.
I find it slightly sad and disturbing that RL clubs have to bow and scrape to these faceless people. Scratting around to prove the worthiness of their clubs and jumping into decisions to try and secure their SL future. Press releases about Stadia, season ticket sales ..... many of which have huge negative financial implications to the clubs concerned.
The next 12 months is going to be really interesting - but also a real crossroads for at least 1 club currently in the top flight. At least 3 years in the Championship for the deposed club may well spell the end. Back to part-time. No more Sky millions. Far less TV coverage. Crowds will fall. Sponsorship's will reduce. And if the unlucky clubs' proposed new stadium does actually get built, a white elephant that cannot be sustained.
Off the field, the sport and its' decisions is a laughing stock. Unfortunatly the joke is on all of us.'"
what other worthy causes ?
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Quote ="gutterfax"
Is it b0ll0x
The poster decries Quins and Crusaders but then highlights the lack of funding faced by the demoted club...ie, no more SKY money.
Hands up anyone who thinks RL would be in as good a state now if Sky hadn't ploughed millions in...seriously...go on...tell us how a northern pastime, watched by crowds smaller than we get at Quins for an academy game would have grown to be as big as it is now....without murdochs money?
Please...enlighten me.
BskyB want RL to be a national sport....it attracts better ad pounds if it is national. The M62 game that it pre SL was the real laughing stock...you shared a commentator with it's a knockout FFS.....
Get with the programme.....you may not like it, but the game is far better off for the experiment that is London and Catalans.....and given time, Crusaders at the expense of Leigh and Halifax who both failed in SL.
Talk of kicking out Quins is based on attendances and imaginary bail outs.....whilst you'd have 900 people at the Shay to watch Fax v HKR as it was in 1993......get a grip
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brilliant ! post of the year - this man's a genius !
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