Why the chuff would the rugby union want any of our teams?



They are making a shed full of money year after year



Sky as umpteem sports channels so should have shown super league grand final on all the channels at once?



They are a company that wants to make money so if they have large viewing figures for all the channels at the same time they will be quids in,and by having utd on one channel grand final on another tennis on another and golf on it serves them well





Why on earth they would drop a sport that is making them money on the cheap??



The chairmens make me laugh calling the rfl,this is the same rfl that keep us and several super league teams in business over the last few years with bale outs



Plus it was the chairmen of super league clubs who voted for a handful of trucks to be painted instead of £500,000 from betfair to sponsor the league and they wonder why no one want to pay to sponsor now,they gave it away for nothing.



Now let imagine betfairs bid was accepted and the year later William hills or Ladbrokes fancied it,betfair would have to bid up to retain it,but no the brains trust that is super league chairmen wanted trucks not the rfl those clowns and now they are bleating about the game



IDIOTS.

True, but there aren't 12 in RL.

There aren't 6 in union

It wont be all RU rules their game needs to open up and have more tries scored. As for the number of teams a 20 team league sounds a good base for a national game.

Since several former RL players have gone into coaching RU, their clubs attitude to RL has changed and they would love to play SL's top teams.



Playing Wigan and co would make them a bigger shed of money, the only hold back I can see is their international game.

Probably not, but I was in Glasgow at the time of writing so was thinking of a RL town on a similar cultural level.

I think you will find thaty RU crowds have dropped an awfull lot as well. BT Sport would be better for SL now.

Their game needs to make changes, fans want to see tries.

Couple of related questions with everything going on.......



With all the recent signings we have made and the announcement of our assistant coach going full time etc, etc has this been financed by what we currently have and is affordable on last years budget or is it financed on the belief that the door to SL starts to open and P&R returns in the sporting sense ?



Just wondering if our club will be immediately ok and unaffected from the fall out if the SL clubs decide to shut themselves off from the rest of RL forever in chasing more greed ?



The other thing that is glaringly obvious is that any progressive championship/1 clubs need a voice, I'm hoping behind the scenes that unlike the RFL who are distracted by planning the World Cup that these club owners use this time to form a collective and start to put there view across more strongly - now is not a time to sit and wait.

Ask Starbug how he went on trying to get the Championship clubs to work together

I have a feeling the championship clubs are about to be shafted and must react accordingly if it materialises

In answer to your first question, the BOD is on record as saying they are committed to raising the additional funding to finance a bigger squad than last season. This was obviously with the proposed, and seemingly guaranteed, (!!) structural changes coming in. Whilst I should imagine they are still fully committed to raising the extra funds, (we've signed the players now!) I don't know what the point would be (for any Championship club) should the SL clubs decide to scupper the deal. (It's worth noting that the SL clubs have already voted THREE times, to reduce to 12 teams, and are now being 'asked' to vote for a fourth time on it!)



The Championship clubs have had their own forum recently, and were reportedly becoming quite bullish, but whether they still have that forum, I don't know.