Cas Tigers are spending the full SC in 2014.

Don't think 1.6m would go anywhere near building a new ground never mind part of it. Cas Tigers have spent a small fortune on the Glasshoughton project and it just hasn't happened for us.

Cas are a perfect example. They have traditionally much better crowds and have had time in SL and they still struggle to put out anything like a winning side in SL. Switching to 10 or bringing back P+R isn’t going to bring Cas closer to the Leeds and Wigans of this world, it will drag them further away.

Good to hear.

You don't get it at all do you. Does what we have work? If yes, keep it - if not change it. I am in its not working camp - supported by the amount of teams going bust and the huge sponsorship and tv deals coming in.

The clubs that are struggling financially need more money from central funding.
The RFL should take less of SKY's money and give more to the SL clubs who provide the matches SKY want to televise.
An extra £300,000 a year to each club would make a difference to those clubs who are financially struggling.

Change for changes sake is idiotic.

If the justification for doing something descends to nothing more than the simple fact it is different, you are on to a loser.

Whereas doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity, as a great man once said.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic but what you say is exactly what the so called rebel clubs are stating. SL brings in the money so SL should control the money.

[iI never said half the they say I have on the internet[/i Albert Einstein 1993.

A better physicist than physician

Crown paint instead of B&Qs own?

SL clubs who dont spend the full salary cap should be allowed to sell the balance of their unspent cap on a year by year basis..This gives the wealthier clubs the chance to retain star players and to bring in Marquee names whilst at the same time giving underspending clubs greater financial security.
Its the star names that draw crowds so being able to retain and recruit more of them gives the game greater commercial appeal which in the long run is in everyones interest.
Setting a salary cap and for it to then be underused by some clubs is just a wasted asset.

You are father Dougal and i claim my £5

With hindsight, no they really shouldn't have!



That's £4.2 million based on 14 clubs, £3.9m if we exclude Catalans. Just how much does the RFL retain for its own admin and the rest of the game?

RFL get 1/16th, Championships get 1/16th

If clubs need more, then we can either divvy up the pie between fewer hungry mouths, or make a bigger pie.

So not enough, basically. And they have to pay the match officials out of that, I'd imagine? And marketing, etc.



That's what it comes down to.

Going to 12 would free up roughly £2.4m, or £200k each.

10 would mean £4.8; £480k each. Assuming Sky would pay the same for a smaller competition.

I’m looking forwards to your grand plan for a bigger pie as I can’t see the Master Bakers at Sky offering to increase the cost of ingredients.

Oh what a joyous meeting it’ll be when the clubs meet up to conclude the saga.

London in deep, deep trouble, Wakefield limping along after selling most of their crown jewels & now Bradford seemingly following Wakefield’s austerity line.

I still think there is a sting in the tail, and there will be tears before bed time for the Championship clubs

IMO sky will pay for a better product with more airtime, an elite 10 should produce better games and gates, a more evenly matched second tier should provide better games and a better atmosphere for TV
Remember they are giving airtime to championship RU in winter!!

Not enough to to give the clubs another £300k or something no.


Or we find the money from somewhere else.

We sell more. That’s the masterplan. If this is the market value of SL, the championships and championship 1, then it is the market value of those products. If we need more money then we need to sell other things aswell. More competitions, more access, different branding opportunities, more content.

There is two years before a big gap opens up at Sky from the champions league. Even if we don’t fill those specific slots whatever does is most likely to be moved from elsewhere in the schedule. There is a massive amount of programming to be filled.

Realistically we need to throw it all in, whatever Sky want, they can have. If they want a 9s comp, they can have it. If they want a new 13s comp, they can have it. If they want cameras in changing rooms, crack on. If they want players miked up go ahead.

Brian Barwick’s book of contacts needs to have a young, hungry, imaginative production company in there with some ideas that Sky want. If Sky want it, they will pay money for it. If we need to sell our souls to get it, then fsck it, we can party in hell with the rockstars.

That's more like it smokes bring on commerciality and the laws of the real world, nobody protected and everything is possible if commercially right

With those innovative views you’ll never get a gig a Red Hall

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The dinosaurs at the helm don’t have the mental capacity to look outside the box, hence the rumblings of half of the SL clubs.

I think you're right, but we'll only know in a couple of years time when the new structures that are being put in place fail to deliver

says the guy who doesn't attend any super league games but will go to world cup games that come round every 4 years

Your not are you? Your spending 1.6 million the cap is 1.8million isn't it?