Is everyone forgetting who's bottom of the league then?

I know you may disagree, but promotion and relegation returning benefits nobody currently in SL, but is seen as a big win for championship clubs. Likewise, the bizarre 3-way-split mini-league system is also designed almost exclusively to benefit championship clubs by giving them a couple of paydays against better supported clubs. I think letting London go to the wall is also a fairly clear gift to some championship clubs, if only by freeing up a space at the top table in principle. Previous chief execs have acted to try and prevent London hitting the buffers (it's not been secure since Branson, to be honest), but under Wood, the RFL have, at best, provided little or no support.

ABJECT is the word I'd use.....ABJECT failure.

Cor Blimey!....Gordon bennet and strike a light.....
Go on...tell me why East London would have been better.

Nothing at all....we're Rupert Murdochs sick joke on the game in general.




Ask Rupert...

Not a soul......I fact, Victoria Beckham reckons we are the cause of world poverty.....



French RL has never been stronger......honest
































what "routes" would they be?



define slowly?

what...an owner with a loud mouth but still crowds?



no...it would involve the so called "hard men" of RL to leave home and head down there to make a go of it rather than hang around for mum's breakfasts.....the burgess freaks took mummy with them to Sydney.....wonder if she's househunting in TW2 now?



fev, Batley, Leigh, Fax......and anywhere else they can afford to field a team, but it wont be in SL.

I'd agree, I initially was dead against the new structure, and I still have doubts it will achieve the ' turnover ' of clubs that many Championship clubs fans and owners hope for, however it was a post by Gutterfax on here that changed my opinion, it was that this system will benifit those that run and build their business the best, it is that simple

And it seems that KPMG agree as well, it is their report that has prompted this change, however personally their record on checking finances for the RFL is pretty poor

Either way its coming, voted for by the SL clubs, so dont pin this on anybody else

Yes the 3 way split will provide interest for up to 2, possibly 3 current Championship Clubs, but it is the reduction to 12 that is the real problem for current SL clubs as that is the only definate here, in truth no SL clubs should lose their place in the middle 8

The question to ask is, how much longer could London continue in SL? , the move to the Hive is surely designed to prepare for Championship RL

No, but it is about sustainability and football isnt sustainable as it is. Huge sums are wasted and flow out of the game it is entirely propped up by not just TV cash but that that TV cash continues to grow. It is a debt bubble and entirely the wrong way for us to build our sport.


in the context of football it is. Very few clubs were more successful, and even fewer when the game was professional.

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