Bath were already in the top flight when the rules came out so it doesn't apply. There was also a rule of having first choice on pitch which most didn't have when sharing with a football team. it was only when London Welsh were willing to take the rfu to court did the authorities relent. It is said that if bath get relegated they would not meet the criteria was told there was/Is plans to share with Swindon if this ever happens.

It’s. Yawnion who cares?

Adam Pearson does






In reality, we all should care. If you think there's nothing we ca learn from them then look at these images.....



Now I get the hostility and the cries of "double counting double headers" and "event games shouldn't count" but no amount of whining will change the fact that over 2 decades we have been left behind......
6,816 was our 1997 average, nearly 600 more fans per game, but last season we were over 7,000 fans per game behind them when counting the same original 12 sides..........if we count oldhams attendances as 500 and include Wakefield over PSG, we are still 6,400 behind them......so whilst you cal it Yawnion, the GENERAL PUBLIC THINK DIFFERENTLY!

Dog, quote as many numbers as you wish.
It’s yawnion I really have very little interest in the game.
I have an interest in Bath only because I lived there.
Who is we?

Thank you. Numbers are a factual statistic that can't lie. They do not impact on your opinion, but in this case, they do show that whilst we have stagnated, they have grown by 120% in terms of fans in attendance.
20 years ago they had fewer fans, no TV deal and nothing more than a domestic competition......now they absolutely dwarf us in all those areas including TV audience and income. We should be interested in learning how they have done this.
Nice place......
"we" is the RL fan collective that decry anything we perceive as "against us" be that the BBC, the RFU or anyone else whilst refusing to accept we are masters of our own destiny and architects of our own downfall!

Yes and they went from being an amateur sport to a professional sport.
Q have the overall gate figures for RL gone up in the period you mention? Think even your figures show that the teams that are still in the top flight have increased numbers therefore not stagnant.
Who on here has tried to say anyone has anything against us? Certainly not me! I don’t like watching yawnion, but I don’t knock anyone that does!

Learning from RU “we” as a collective can do nothing so “we” can learn nothing!

“We” follow a sport that is played by different rules in different countries, and another set of rules internationally, until that is sorted the sport will never be taken seriously by the general public.