Quote ="UllFC"Hate to say it but Rugby League is entering terminal decline, we've got one of our biggest names (Bradford) on the brink of going out of business altogether, as the above has said many smaller clubs are living a nomadic existence, HullKR have one season to get back up or will face massive budget cuts. We've got what half a dozen clubs getting viable crowds and locked in to a relatively poor TV deal for many years to come.
After the successful 2013 World Cup I thought we'd finally turned a corner, but its been treading water at best since.'"
Sadly I've got to agree with. I still love the game but I've never been as disillusioned with the sport as i am now. The days of being excited about the match coming up, and arranging the time for our trips away matches. The game over here has gone downhill quite alarmingly over the last few years or so. The RFL have no leader and no backbone, i honestly don't know how the clubs can let the CEO at the RFL lead the game to oblivion. As a saints fan i found last year painful, not because we didn't win anything but because Kieron C stuck with his torturous drip drip drip tactics, of 3 drives and a kick. It became such a dirge, that the only highlight was when me and a few mates, started having our own bets and putting a £fiver each in to a kitty, to see how long it would take before the fans got on the players backs. I was extremely disappointed with the four nations. I attended two games, and i think the promotion of the games in Coventry and the surrounding area was pith poor. Then my next game at the final i was disappointed to see so many empty seats. Whoever chose the venues and the ko times should've been shot. International RL is far more important than club RL. But as its Mr Wood in charge of the RFL, what hope does the game really have.
I've not bought a season ticket for saints for the first time since 2001. Until something is done to try and get someone as the CEO who knows what he/she is doing, that'd be a start. For me I would be to scrap "the nothing to play for not-so-super8's. Have a One up and one down.
