Latest IMG proposals for Super League

[Diesel]

Bedford Tigers apply to join L1.

Expansion club submit application to join RFL League One - Serious About Rugby League

After the RFL put out the call that they would be considering applications to join Betfred League One from the 2025 season onwards, Bedford Tigers have become the first southern team to express their interest publicly. It was reported earlier that Goole Vikings had put their name in the hat but...

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Is RL picking up any ground on the struggling RU clubs in the UK

 

[Wb1234]

Talking Rugby League: English clubs angry as France benefits from wave of travelling fans

IT was hard not to enjoy the spectacle of Leigh supporters having a great time at the Stade Gilbert Brutus on Saturday. There were around 1,800 of them, the vast majority wearing club-themed gear, …

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At a time when the nrl will add teams in png and nz2 the English game wants to boot its French clubs

 

[Perth Red]

Talking Rugby League: English clubs angry as France benefits from wave of travelling fans

IT was hard not to enjoy the spectacle of Leigh supporters having a great time at the Stade Gilbert Brutus on Saturday. There were around 1,800 of them, the vast majority wearing club-themed gear, …

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At a time when the nrl will add teams in png and nz2 the English game wants to boot its French clubs

What an sht article, not surprised you posted it. Literally not one shred of any evidence in it of what he’s claiming.

 

[Pippen94]

What an sht article, not surprised you posted it. Literally not one shred of any evidence in it of what he’s claiming.

Outside the big 5 or 6 english clubs which teams would be in favour of french involvement in UK?!

 

[Wb1234]

Outside the big 5 or 6 english clubs which teams would be in favour of french involvement in UK?!

Hardly any

super league makes Catalans pay a bond of 500k pounds to play in the challenge cup final

 

[Pippen94]

Hardly any

super league makes Catalans pay a bond of 500k pounds to play in the challenge cup final

That's why NRL need to buy superleague to save it from itself..

 

[Wb1234]

That's why NRL need to buy superleague to save it from itself..

The clubs will revolt against the nrl plans

the sht clubs hold too much power

eventually those clubs will die off or give up on super league and accept being a feeder club

 

[Perth Red]

Hardly any

super league makes Catalans pay a bond of 500k pounds to play in the challenge cup final

Again with your bs, that was years ago and it never happened.

best to keep out of SL thread, you haven’t a clue!

 

[Pippen94]

Again with your bs, that was years ago and it never happened.

best to keep out of SL thread, you haven’t a clue!

Catalans paying for travel next year?!

 

[Wb1234]

Catalans Dragons owner Bernard Guasch hits back against paying for Super League opponents’ travel costs

CATALANS DRAGONS owner Bernard Guasch has hit back against paying for Super League opponents’ travel costs following RL Commercial Managing Director Rhodri Jones’ comments. Jones previo…

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Catalans have to pay away teams travel and accomodation costs

this is on top of the smaller English clubs getting mad too many English fans are travelling to peripgnan

 

[Wb1234]

Catalans were paying lequippe to show their games on tv (which gave sky free content back home)

now because of having to pay for away teams travel they will stop that

how does the rfl allow this to happen ?

 

[Pippen94]

Catalans were paying lequippe to show their games on tv (which gave sky free content back home)

now because of having to pay for away teams travel they will stop that

how does the rfl allow this to happen ?

..because game is parochial. Combining bigger clubs across UK & french heartlands would strengthen game.

 

[Wb1234]

..because game is parochial. Combining bigger clubs across UK & french heartlands would strengthen game.

Yes

Top English clubs with four French clubs is the way forward

potentially even an Italian and Spanish club as well

this is what the nrl should be looking at not investing in the current structure which has too many small English clubs

take Wigan Leeds hull fc st Helen’s Warrington Bradford plus English expansion clubs like London Newcastle maybe even a club in wales and invest and market it like crazy

 

[Pippen94]

Yes

Top English clubs with four French clubs is the way forward

potentially even an Italian and Spanish club as well

this is what the nrl should be looking at not investing in the current structure which has too many small English clubs

take Wigan Leeds hull fc st Helen’s Warrington Bradford plus English expansion clubs like London Newcastle maybe even a club in wales and invest and market it like crazy

..build around the base of m62 & southern France with only the strong clubs. Entice investors elsewhere who want to link with world's biggest brand in rugby: the NRL.

 

[Vlad59]

Wow another thread ruined by dumb and dumber.

 

[Perth Red]

RUGBY LEAGUE COMMERCIAL Managing Director, Rhodri Jones, is confident that the IMG grading system will all work out as it should ahead of the 2025 season.

Provisional grades were sent to all 36 professional clubs at the end of last year, allowing clubs the time to focus on improvements ahead of the real grading scores given at the end of 2024.

For Jones, the IMG system is simple – it filters the best clubs to make it in the top division.
“I’m fully confident it will work out. None of this was done in isolation in terms of the signing off process and all clubs agreed to it,” Jones told The League Express podcast.

“There will always be bumps in the road but those bumps would only become evident when the scores circulated because it measured every club.

“The reasons we brought it in early was to give clubs the chance to do something about it and now clubs will have a real focus in certain areas to improve off-field performances.

“We need to have the best – in the broadest sense – in the top division. We can’t have clubs purely focused on the performance side of the game because it’s not sustainable.
“I’m fully confident it will work out. None of this was done in isolation in terms of the signing off process and all clubs agreed to it,” Jones told The League Express podcast.

“There will always be bumps in the road but those bumps would only become evident when the scores circulated because it measured every club.

“The reasons we brought it in early was to give clubs the chance to do something about it and now clubs will have a real focus in certain areas to improve off-field performances.

“We need to have the best – in the broadest sense – in the top division. We can’t have clubs purely focused on the performance side of the game because it’s not sustainable.
“There would be a likelihood that you wouldn’t want a Grade A club playing in the Championship so we would look at the number of teams in Super League.”

RL Commercial chief on potential 14-team Super League and IMG grading system

RUGBY LEAGUE COMMERCIAL Managing Director, Rhodri Jones, is confident that the IMG grading system will all work out as it should ahead of the 2025 season. Provisional grades were sent to all 36 pro…

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[Perth Red]

Yes

Top English clubs with four French clubs is the way forward

potentially even an Italian and Spanish club as well

this is what the nrl should be looking at not investing in the current structure which has too many small English clubs

take Wigan Leeds hull fc st Helen’s Warrington Bradford plus English expansion clubs like London Newcastle maybe even a club in wales and invest and market it like crazy

Its like you dont understand commercialism at all lol

 

[Wb1234]

bradford need to be in sl

 

[Pippen94]

bradford need to be in sl

I think Bradford, Toulouse & Wakefield will all return to superleague under IMG grading.

 

[Wb1234]

I think Bradford, Toulouse & Wakefield will all return to superleague under IMG grading.

London are pretty much out

but can’t see two other super league clubs missing out

hopefully they go to 14 teams