14 Team SL and Merged Championship?

[Pippen94]

Record tv viewing, attendances up with some of the biggest, a competitive top of table with 5 clubs in with a realistic shot at the title, promoted club doing much better than the relegated one. Yeh SL is cooked lol
leave out Salford anomaly and it’s been a great SL season.

Which top level pro league needs to cancel game coz teams going bankrupt lol?!

 

[Taking The Two]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...ing-will-be-stopped-unless-questions-answered

£16m is massive to this sport. The small mindedness and absolutely frightening decisions made by Super League chairmen has put the sport on the precipice.

 

[Gobsmacked]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...ing-will-be-stopped-unless-questions-answered

£16m is massive to this sport. The small mindedness and absolutely frightening decisions made by Super League chairmen has put the sport on the precipice.

"The Code for Sports Governance states the chairs of governing bodies must be independent, but Wood was chair of the Championship club Bradford before being appointed. While he has relinquished that Bulls role he remains on the club’s board.

Wood initially returned to the RFL in March as senior independent director and has since been appointed chair of Rugby League Commercial, the body which manages the sport’s broadcasting and sponsorship sales.

In addition to Wood’s links to Bradford, Sport England is expected to ask questions about the processes involved in his appointment, and whether any other candidates were interviewed"

 

[Perth Red]

Reply good interview with York owner. More smart owners like him and SL is going to go great guns. Long interview but def worth a listen. I’m now fully onboard with York knights being in SL.

 

[Perth Red]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...ing-will-be-stopped-unless-questions-answered

£16m is massive to this sport. The small mindedness and absolutely frightening decisions made by Super League chairmen has put the sport on the precipice.

Haha, you should write for the sun!

 

[Pippen94]

Haha, you should write for the sun!

You done the chemical Ali media training?!

 

[Pippen94]

Reply good interview with York owner. More smart owners like him and SL is going to go great guns.

York is too small. London and midlands are the two centres outside of m62 that should be focus.

 

[BODISGOD]

Repeat after me..broadcast money

A market with little comparability. The NRL have no skill in the UK market.

 

[Taking The Two]

Haha, you should write for the sun!

And you should out yourself as a Mick Gledhill.

You can bury your head in the sand because KR are doing well but all around them there is a bin fire that is raging and becoming more and more uncontrollable.

 

[Gobsmacked]

York is too small. London and midlands are the two centres outside of m62 that should be focus.

York isn't too small. Biggest than Saint Helens among others

 

[Pippen94]

York isn't too small. Biggest than Saint Helens among others

NRL Europe will be elite. You got 6 heartland UK teams and 2 from France. That doesn't leave too many places for other teams. London and Midlands are the two population centres in England outside of m62. I'd be choosy which those slots and opt for larger cities.

 

[Taking The Two]

York ticks boxes. They’ve got multiple teams across the different forms of the sport, a long-term lease at a new stadium, they’re not quite in the heartlands but close enough that they have a reasonable player pool to pick from and they’re going well onfield. I hope they eventually become a Super League club, they’re doing a lot of the right things.

 

[Pippen94]

A market with little comparability. The NRL have no skill in the UK market.

Lol, Vlandys and abdo over in usa talking to big media players.

 

[Perth Red]

And you should out yourself as a Mick Gledhill.

You can bury your head in the sand because KR are doing well but all around them there is a bin fire that is raging and becoming more and more uncontrollable.

There really isn’t, cheer up, or find another sport to follow

 

[Pippen94]

There really isn’t, cheer up, or find another sport to follow

Superleague is falling apart

 

[Gobsmacked]

NRL Europe will be elite. You got 6 heartland UK teams and 2 from France. That doesn't leave too many places for other teams. London and Midlands are the two population centres in England outside of m62. I'd be choosy which those slots and opt for larger cities.

Wigan and Warrington aren't much bigger.
York is a growth city outside the m62.
I'm more concerned with getting rid of Castleford, Leigh, Wakefield,Salford in the event of no NRL Europe :
Swap. Salford, Leigh, Castleford, Wakefield
For
London, Bradford, Toulouse and York

NRL Europe probably needs to be bigger than 10 also: Dublin,Cardiff, Birmingham, London Toulouse, Catalans, Wigan, Warrington, Saint Helens, Hull, Leeds, Manchester

 

[BODISGOD]

Lol, Vlandys and abdo over in usa talking to big media players.

Mate they got some complimentary tickets from a commercial partner, the fact this is a big deal for you suggests some very small time thinking.

 

[Taking The Two]

There really isn’t, cheer up, or find another sport to follow

Bury your head in the sand, then. It is a, frankly, alarming time for the sport in the UK at the minute despite of your team’s small dominance. Almost everyone can acknowledge this aside from yourself, it’s as though you’re purposely being a contrarian or just ignoring everything going on around the sport because of a small pocket of Hull’s success.

We literally had a chairman on BBC yesterday championing the change to 14 teams despite also admitting that he has no clue where the funding is going to come from for the extra teams, if at all it comes from anywhere. This on top of the same collective group of chairmen voting out Nigel Wood, going all in on IMG, to then vote Wood back in. The general feeling amongst supporters is not a positive one overall.

 

[Pippen94]

Mate they got some complimentary tickets from a commercial partner, the fact this is a big deal for you suggests some very small time thinking.

You are threatened by NRL takeover of UK because village team you love won't make top flight. That is my impression. NRL dealing with top media groups should be positive for fans of the sport..well most

 

[jason taylor]

York is too small. London and midlands are the two centres outside of m62 that should be focus.

The content of the interview is what matters. I'm all for a London and a Midlands team, but neither are currently Super League ready in terms of:
- Having a strong financial foundation
- Grassroots community support
- A junior pipeline/system
- Certainty in terms of stadium and infrastructure.

Just throwing money in without have a sustainable base will just result in failure as we have seen in previous expansion attempts in the last 15 years (like the Wolfpack and Celtic Crusaders). Perhaps the Midland Hurricanes will be Super League ready in 10 years, but it will take a lot of work to get them to that point, particularly in growing a supporter base that will actually care about the team and its success.