agreed part time is not the way id rather see everyone fulltime so the game improves throughoutthe leagues not drops standards or one league gets far far superior which is whats happening

When we went full time under JCW is was a complete disaster !

I think that was more about how it was done, rather than it being done. We had a coach that thought being full time meant getting your players to carry trees up hills all day everyday

The less said about that period of time the better i'd have thought.

we went to big to soon I dont think anyone had done there homework behind the scenes if you know how much contract mney your paying and can budget accordingly on tv money and such like then it can work, the money has to filtered down more fairly not just get a big bulk give it to sl clubs and give rest of leagues pennys how are others ment to compete

We were a joke , talked about Super duper League at one meeting and at the next we went bust.

Thank god we are more realistic under the current regime.(that is a complement by the way) !

We were also crap, which didn't help.

dont beat about the bush stand offish, say what you mean

tbh crap was putting it mildly - that first cas game was a humiliation, made worse for me as some friends of mine at sixth form had gone as they knew one of the dancers if i remember correctly, I joined the conversation midway through excitedly putting in my two penith thinking I had found fellow fans to talk with only to find out my mistake and try weakly to explain that rugby league isn't normally that bad.

Personally I think we lost many potential fans as a lot of people coming through weren't necessarily rugby league supporters, but they might have been afterwards if we had put on a show (and by that I mean an entertaining match, not all that rubbish beforehand)

I cringe when I recall that era.
There were some good individual players, but the side were assembled when the coach was still in Australia, in his absence.
And even with communications with the antipodes, how the hell could he have had any serious input.
So he got a side that someone else assembled to work with and no doubt he quickly regretted that, when he found out that they were far from a cohesive outfit.
Is he still a coach Keiran Dempsey?

Was he ever?

The RFL can confirm that the Co-operative Rugby League Championship One clubs have agreed their position on promotion at the end of the 2012 season.

Following last year’s strategic review into the Co-operative Championships, all 10 Championship One clubs today voted in favour of having the top four promoted at the end of the 2012 Co-operative Championship One regular season.

This will see the top four teams being promoted into the Championship to form an expanded 14 team division in 2013 meaning that there will be no relegation from the competition in 2012

To determine the Champions of the Co-operative Championship One season, there will be a top six play-off at the end of the campaign with the winners of the Grand Final deemed as champions.

Four new clubs will enter Championship One in 2013. Northampton were announced as one of the four last month and the other three teams will be announced once the due diligence checks are completed.

“It is an exciting time for Rugby League at Co-operative Championships level and the whole sport is looking forward to the new season ahead,” said RFL Chief Operating Officer Ralph Rimmer.

“With the positive structural changes to the season from 2013, every club will be working extremely hard to play their part in the most significant change to Rugby League since the switch to summer in 1996.

“Championship One is expected to be very competitive with every team in the division in with a chance of promotion.”

Told you last Friday

Does anyone remember the chat he had in the stand with Donny Plumber and Dearne Don !!!

I cleared off out of the way!

I can remember fans shouting at the players at the end of one match & theplayers looking bemused.

I can remember someone having a go at me at one of those games where we we got shown up at home, because I said they were rubbish.
He can't have been a true supporter like me.







Mind you, I have learned from several encounters like that one, to not criticise the players.
That's probably why I walk out instead.






I'm too old for fisty-cuffs.

Interesting discussion



Ultimatly the franchise system is flawed, it weakens the clubs outside SL, and weakens the clubs in SL that it purports to protect, RL in this country is dominated by 4/5 clubs, it needs the rest of SL to catch up with them to emulate the NFL/NRL, but the lack of meaningful competition means these clubs wont improve, they effectively have nothing to play for

Meanwhile the clubs outside SL are unable to attract the neccessary investement needed to improve themselves

The whole sport is obsessed with TV money, the governing body also are short sighted in ways of improving the sport outside SL, effectively giving away the Championship coverage for nothing

The governing body will never improve the finances of the Championships , only the clubs can achieve that, until they realise that, decline will continue

As for the OP, it is the fairest way, evn if it makes a mockery of the play offs, effectively making the whole Championship GF s day worthless