"The rfl remains committed to working closely with all clubs to help them realise their potential" - what a load of bollox.

add to that a multimillion dollar deal signed in aus with tv. no top aussies will come, half of teams produce no players so were gonna be left with a crap comp. rl on th road to ruin

basically RL is becoming the feeder clubs for RU

Don't forget as well that a Premiership Yawnion team receives 2.4mill from Sky and a SL team receives 650k. Disparity or what, and you can only see the gap widening in the coming years. They don't have the product but they certainly have the money and and momentum.

Lets re-invent the wheel then and just play in the North witha strong semi pro league staff sky etc make the game for the masses.

Then of course this would never happen because the bottom line in 90% of cases its about money not sport or its support

this is why we cant compete and pay good wages, this is why they wanted mergers to create big clubs with good support with teams being able to keephold of the youngsters. if we get kicked out then it wont make the comp any worse or better, there is just not enough good players to go round. catalan, celtic, bradford, quins, salford,. as areas produce hardly any youngsters so the gap is filled with 2nd and 3rd rate aussies. a few big clubs taking the cream the comp is poor. even the hull area is starting to struggle getting top youngsters.