Hi Guys and Girls,

I'm currently studying Sports Business Management at Leeds Metropolitan University, and am currently working on my dissertation. The title of which is "Licensed to Succeed", and the overall aim of the study is "To explore the effect of the introduction of the franchise system (licensing system) in Rugby League." The main focus of this will be on competitive balance and also attendances in the league.

The questionnaires are just 1/4 types of data collection i am doing, and will be used to support / counter the statistics that i have compiled. These statistics consist of a Competitive Balance analysis, which is a formula that shows how competitive our league is, as well as an attendance analysis. The final part of data collection will be interviews with SL clubs (players, coaches etc.)

The questionnaire is very simple, and is open to interpretation, [size=100please make sure to tick the box and then explain your answer in full. [/size

=#FF4000For ethical issues no-one under the age of 18 should complete the survey, and if you are under 18 and choose to do so, then it is at your own risk. All responses given will be anonymous and as such, it means you are fully able to give a full response to each of the questions.

Your help is much appreciated, so thank you in advance!

Sean M.

done; probably not a good time to put this on this board but at least you've got the way i see it

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Your third question needs more detail, what has had a positive effect? I know its the licensing debate but just to get accurate responses then it needs explaining.

Just a thought as I did this last year.

I've completed it, good luck with your work

appreciate it mate, and every opinion is important, even the negative ones.





thank you, and appreciate the feedback, but the question is open ended, in order to allow interpretation of positive effects, each club and their fans will see it differently. Thanks again though.

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thanks everyone! its going well so far! appreciate all the help!

Done, doing it made me agree even more with the view that franchising is killing the game.

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appreciate the help guys!

Its gone well sean, i was concerned they may just ignore it but it just shows mate.

A bit put out to be told one of my answers was not long enough! Was sick of repeating myself for about 4 questions!

Ignoramous!

I would like to thank everyone who has taken the questionnaire and all the well-wishers also!

Initially i had set out to only get 100 responses, yet as testament to the brilliant nature of RL supporters i had to upgrade my account with survey monkey to recieve over 100 responses. Since friday i have recieved 345 responses!

so thank you each and every one for helping out! (and making my work so much more detalied)

Sean M

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really> how? when? because i took the link down about half an hour ago and it says the last entry was over an hour ago!

only i need to make sure other people cant answer it anymore because i cant keep getting more and more responses lol!

I filled it in last night. Would be interesting to see the results when you've finished, even more so if you can break it down club by club!

oh thats good then lol!

im talking to my tutor to see what the situation is with publishing the dissertation when its done!