Could you explain just how 20 clubs will share the pot and whilst it makes great sense to have "prize money" based on finishing position, the idea of ALL clubs being shown on Sky and yet receiving substantially different amounts of "central funding" is just wrong, utterly wrong.
This will mean the richer clubs getting richer and the poor will be left with sod all.

On the basis that the "ideal" competition would be having 10/12/14 clubs all capable of competing with each other, your idea will simply make the gap between the top 5/6 and the rest ever greater.

It would be really interesting to know just what the game needs to do to make itself more attractive to Sky and any other broadcasters.
Do they want more or less clubs in the top flight, more or less overseas clubs, shiny new stadia, to show more/less games etc, etc.
Post covid, RL faces so many challenges and the lack of cash from Sky, especially for the lower leagues, will make life for all clubs far more difficult and RL wasn't exactly in rude health before.
Personally, I feel that cutting the number of clubs from 12 could be a huge mistake and this should be avoided at all costs.

Those at the top of the sport need to give some serious thought about where the game is heading and where we want to be in 5 /10 years time and not look for another restructure for the sake of it, something that, time, after time, after time just hasn't worked in the past.

Well you appear to have completely missed the fact "The game" has just been in intensive and successful "serious" negotiations to obtain a new SKY contract.

Once they shook hands with SKY the SL top bosses came out and talked about a 10 club Superleague. That's a really good clue to your question (1) above.

As for question (2) if they pop into the 10 club superleague the only two overseas clubs there are (who else are you talking about other than Cats & TO??) then that means 2022 onwards will see only 8 English clubs in Superleague - so you have a big clue there as well. They aren't going to provide only 8 clubs to English SKY subscribers are they??

Here's another clue if your still unsure of overseas clubs. Toulouse applied to join Superleague a few months ago and they were told No thanks, and Leigh got the gig??

Are you sure about this ?
IIRC there were 6 clubs applying for 1 SL spot.
Unless there is public record as to why Leigh got the gig, in favour of Fev Toulouse, Bradford etc, and more importantly the reasoning behind this, I would suggest that you are guessing.
What happened to Newcastle, York and London, who were to be included in an "all new".
You seemed really certain of this for all of the last 12 months ?

It was publicly made known that Leigh where financially better off. Basically they had more money in the pot to cover the 850k shortfall.

I missed that one, but I haven't missed the way Mr. Beaumont has been a keen RL fan happy to put massive sums of money into the game.

The only reason RL continues to exist in the northern hemisphere is because people will do that across the north of England. Beaumont is on a par with Davey, Lenegan, Caddick, McManus, Pearson, Moran, Carter, Hudgell etc etc.

The idea that he's a clown and we should have a pro RL club in Timbuktoo as that's expansion is a fascinating one

Yes there were six clubs wanting the last SL slot. that Leigh got the gig is a tiny tiny bit of a clue that the Superleague clubs wanted another northern rich owner to join their northern rich owners club.

They are an insular bunch, they hate Bernard Gauch and his phoney French team.

Time we got rid of these rich Northerners and got back to intercontinental fantasy Rugby League.........

Just a shame the wealthy northern owners are dependent on money from a broadcast deal.
The whole lot together won't have put as much in as Gausch and Argyle.
The wealthy folk just put in directors loans.
That is LOANS!
Joe the unemployed chap will probably put in a higher percentage of his disposable cash,over the years.

Instead of your usual anti - overseas tripe,how about some real facts about any putative restructure?

This is a bit of a strange post, Donny.
Of course the game needs as many wealthy people involved as possible and DB has certainly put plenty of brass into Leigh over the years, with the occasional dummy spit.
Was it the SL clubs that voted for Leigh ?
What happened to the independent panel, who were charged with selecting the "best" applicant ?

Once again you are putting your very own spin onto things and you chose not to answer about London, York and Newcastle all of whom, you had previously been so certain of being in the all new, all British SL.

The one certainty is that if/when some clubs are dropped/kicked out of SL, whether they be from Hull or Perpignan, it will be yet another mistake from those in charge and assuming there is a cut from 12, to 10 clubs, it will be another nail into the RL coffin.

The elephant in the room is just why RL is so unappealing to the masses.
The media, and the general public are starting to ignore the self proclaimed "greatest game" and the sport is walking into oblivion and back to an amateur status.

Because clubs like yours have provided little in the way of competition or excitement since the 1960s.

Keep sucking the lemons

Your club being?

Yeh of course I'm certain[u if [/uthe all new 2x10 Superleague comes in in 2022 it will involve Newcastle York and London. what's your point??

Of course the SL clubs voted for Leigh. Why would they not they need money not dreams.

Of course RL doesn't appeal in places where it's not actually played and Rugby Union is king.

Anything else?

My point relates to your insistence for the last 12 months that York, Newcastle and London would be in SL, not a re named Championship/ 2nd tier. You do remember that dont you ?

If RL has no appeal in areas where RU is "king" and has no hope of ever doing so, we may as well move the bulldozers in now and allow Saints, Wigan, Leeds & Wire to go to the "dark side".

Oh yes, Trinity should be blamed for all of the sports many failings

The direction of travel for the sport and the myriad of failed restructures are all down to little old Wakefield.












At least you've given me a laugh this morning

Not just that. I'm pretty sure Wakefield blew up the twin towers and killed Dianna to be honest.

Little, old...
I notice you don't list the club's achievements. Or big games even. It's indisputable. Huge amounts of TV money spent to achieve 9-11th place.

As there are only 4 SL clubs that have won the grand final, then by your reasoning, all the other eight clubs in super league, have been a waste of money. Just saying.

No I don't think that. I think all the other clubs have shown ambition. Hull, Cas and Wire, even Hudds have had memorable sides. Mr Davy has done everything possible. Hull KR try their best and their fans are passionate. If they were a good side I think they'd get 8-10k plus the big derby games. All credit to the people at Salford who have risen from what looked like dead. I think all these clubs have contributed to the promotion of SL to greater or lesser extent.

Wakefield are a significant net minus.

How come when we do a raffle on the Bulls board about which one of us should lay into Wakefield I never get chosen? It's rigged.

Lmao, the last umpteen attempts have been dismal failures, so lets have Manchester-Wigan, Liverpool-St Helens, Leeds (I guess they're just about well enough known), Hull United, rebrand the merged Cumbrian sides as Scottish Borderers.....yeah, you get my drift....what a load of B*******s

Does anyone on here know if the meeting of SL and the RFL management is still taking place tomorrow (Wednesday 19th )?. I think it was initially to discuss the distribution of the next lot of Sky funding, but there has been a suggestion it may also include discussion on promotion and relegation.

And yet, they have managed to maintain their spot in SL.
Poor Bradford failed to beat them when it mattered and went into a death spiral, shame really, as they used to be quite a force in SL.
You really need to get over the MPG, there's plenty of water gone under the proverbial bridge and right now, the game has many bigger issues to get through, not least the drop in funding and even more importantly, the drop off in numbers playing the game post covid, which will have a huge effect on the player pool, which was already shrinking.
These are the issues that need focus and not ing about with the structure, again or, bemoaning the fact that Trinity are where you want your beloved Bulls to be.

The structure does require change. The super 8’s for all it’s bias, created intrigue. Clubs forced to spend to regain position and clubs forced to spend to promote position. Entertaining and vey costly to clubs on the receiving end. Hence goodbye super 8’s.

If they take the approach of 2 x 10, the product will again become stale. You can throw who want to into SL2 but the stale product SL will still remain.

Without serious money being pumped in to this idea, it’s dead before it starts.

Bring back the Championship Eights and the Million Squid Game, as a Bronco, I'm a huge fam, lmao....No, seriously, I did think at least it meant SL clubs only got replaced by something marhinally better rather than something decididly worse.

It was completely biased. Once broken by Leigh. The eyes opened again.