A team can have it's license revoked at any time.

As long as a team operated correctly, franchising gives them the safety net of not trying to avoid relegation each year, but it doesn't mean they can't have the license revoked if they f*ck up off the field (which bradford have done).

If it's in the rules that a license can be taken away, the RFL simply can't give bradford that guarantee.

The RFL are actually acting with a bit of backbone for once and not buckling under public pressure.

For better or worse, we've moved our elite competition to Sky Sports. To say that we have took it away from the masses, however, is a little hysterical. People with more than a passing interest in sport nowadays will have a subscription to Sky Sports. If they still choose not to watch RL, then that's down to their indifference, not the act of "selling our soul".

And before people start crying poverty, and saying they can't afford to watch the rugby anymore; if you really can't afford the fifty quid or so a month to watch what you claim is a sport you are passionate about, then watching rugby is probably the least of your problems.

or go the pub

Sounds like a plan. Mine's a pint!

You are wrong.

AFAIK the Championship clubs only received SKY money during one of the seasons when SKY broadcast their games. This was not a share of the SL cash.