IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025 IMG today presented to the RFL Council the recommended grading criteria to define how Super League, RFL Championship and League One clubs will be assessed starting from 2025, as part of the Reimagining Rugby League plans. Based on a combination of on and off-field variables, the proposed grading criteria are designed to collectively increase clubs’ fanbases, diversify revenues, drive investment into clubs and the sport in a sustainable manner, run clubs in a best-in-class way and ensure strong governance is in place. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025 IMG today presented to the RFL Council the recommended grading criteria to define how Super League, RFL Championship and League One clubs will be assessed starting from 2025, as part of the Reimagining Rugby League plans. Based on a combination of on and off-field variables, the proposed grading criteria are designed to collectively increase clubs’ fanbases, diversify revenues, drive investment into clubs and the sport in a sustainable manner, run clubs in a best-in-class way and ensure strong governance is in place. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

that all seems pretty reasonable.

some meat on the bones of that article https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... B81%5D.pdf

some meat on the bones of that article https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... B81%5D.pdf

3,367 data points for the grading criteria! That's one hell of a lot of work landing in some poor sod's in-tray.

Under that criteria we’d still make Superleague if we were still playing at Wilderspool


Only mark down being the state of the Wilderspool Latrines and Ablution areas, in thanks no doubt to many of the current posters on here

Seeing as sky have dictated to the Rugby League for the last 20 odd years which direction the game will take what is the sky alignment with the IMG vision?
Will the 2 organisations work hand in hand or will sky disappear down the Wilderspool latrines ?

Mmm ... all the form filling will probably end up showing that ...
"Wakefield" look vulnerable.

Okay, so I apologise if I'm being stupid here, but for the stadium category a club gets 0.125 points for the 'LED' weighting (shown with a lightbulb above it). Can someone explain why LED lights is such an important KPI for the fan experience? I mean they're better of course, but I would have put more important things in the mix above LED lights. Unless it has another meaning that I'm missing?

If LED is supposed to reflect a green agenda perhaps more daytime games should be scheduled to reduce the games carbon footprint.

I think the LED it is referring to would be the LED advertising boards round the pitch and that the experience being added to is probably the ability for the league to make a few bob from the ads coming up in decent quality on TV (vs e.g. Bob's Pie Shop on a bit of card). Not the most important thing in the world but then it is only worth an eighth of a point.

That makes more sense. Cheers.

Championship club A gets a sugar Daddy, spends on decent players, finishes unbeaten at the top of the Championship, is promoted to SL, quickly buys up all the SL reject players at the back end of the year and........ gets relegated the next season. All to generate some ' jeopardy' and interest in a couple of games at the end of the season.It all seems very short sighted and wasteful of the few wealthy businessmen that are willing to fund and support our game. At least this system looks to ensure that we look at many more factors before a club is promoted, so I think its a move in the right direction. If I was cynical I might think it was a way of ensuring clubs like Toulouse get to stay in SL ( which I would agree with btw)

Another meeting of all the clubs yet before it’s decided to go with this proposal. We all know that for as long as we can remember clubs have been run to serve their own self interest, I’m not yet convinced this will get off the ground unless they finally understand that the sport will die without change.