If your main problem is the timing, as in it is late in the day, the plans that are being decided are for 2015 as far as i am aware, so in reality although it is 6 months down the line in the development process, theres another 9/10 months before it starts impinging on teams short term preparations. And it really seems that they will havit sorted before the beginning of the 2014 season, after the world cup finishes.

is interested, but 6 is no good, we'll do it only if you've got 10 clubs minimum" ) other clubs would join a rapidly growing 6, and basically, it would almost certainly end up back with Sky. With Leeds in it of course - they're not seriously going to hold out and play in a weak competition with no serious TV rights.

Nobody is suggesting a 6 team comp is viable - what I'm saying is that 6 teams at this stage is a good start in the mission of taking control away from the RFL (which isn't actually what I want to see - I want to see control taken away from the *current leadership* of the RFL, and a reformed RFL) and if the RFL don't budge, then I know who my money's on when it comes to who wins the battle of nerves. Of course, there's no need to take control away from the RFL if they make the changes so badly needed, which is what I actually predict will happen, hopefully with new leadership.

So far as I am aware, the only change the leader of the SL clubs' revolt is alleged to want is Rimmer to replace Wood as CEO.

Then again you also seem to think that one party dropping a surprise vote in a meeting and another party walking out is a consultation so.....

Who's this leader ?

Sorry to pick on this post but having flicked through this thread its obvious that barely anyone commenting has any idea of what the Corporate Governance structures are for 'the RFL' and 'Super Leage Europe' and then the relationships between the different structures never mid the path dependency hat has formed those structures. Each will have a constitution and most likley, some form of scheme of delegation defining what the executive function can or cannot do. More so, how many people commenting here have any experience of how a Corporate Governance landscape like this actually functions...???

When people on here talk about 'the RFL' they mean the executive most of the time - but at other times they're refering to them as a 'Board' - in Corporate Governance terms we are talking about two very very different things! In 'rugby league land' it seems we've got to the point of a shared executive serving multiple Governance stuctures for different bodies, each wanting different things; in my view, it is always exceptionally difficult for the executive in this scenario. I'd add its not uncommon for Board members, as is their right, to raise things at a Board even when the Executive believe it's not something for the agenda on that occasion.

One other thing to add is that people need to think back to how Governance structures came to be...the current 'settlement' betwene the top clubs (constituted as Super League Europe?) and the wider game (which includes those Super League Europe clubs as members) was presumably on the basis that there was some form of sharing of resource between one aspect and the other. If that was constituted then its the responsibility of some people to protect it...they could have a different personal view (and this is often the case for Executives in organisations) but they hold a position requiring them to maintain what was constituted.