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Within 10 years would be great but the NRL took a long time to turn around after SL f**ked it.
Huslet= has poor grades.Hunslet share their rating:
Some six months down the line, Hunslet have been less than impressed by their ‘score’ as allocated by IMG. Their total of 6.94 (from a possible 20) comprises:
CEO Neil Hampshire said, in a message to Hunslet’s loyal fans posted on the club’s website: “The criteria are based on a mixture of three-year averages and in-year achievements. 2023 is a ‘dummy’ year so that clubs can get used to the process. The scoring will formally come into play in 2024 when the results from that year’s exercise will determine the top twelve teams in Super League for 2025.
- Performance: 0.46 (from a possible 5)
- Fandom: 2.05 (from a possible 5)
- Finances: 1.75 (from a possible 4.5)
- Stadium: 0.68 (from a possible 3)
- Community: 2.00 (from a possible 2.5)
“It’s important to note, though, that the grading score has absolutely no impact on promotion and relegation between Championship and League 1. Like us, I know a lot of you will look at the figure and see it as disappointing, but there are a few points I would make:
“As you will be aware, we voted against the introduction of grading. No one can ever be against improving standards, but this system has proved overly bureaucratic and complicated for fans to understand. As an example of the bureaucracy, completing the return also required us to submit duplicate figures to the RFL from the last two years; we have made it plain to the RFL that we do not accept that level of administrative burden to continue. From here on in we should, really, only have to provide data for one year.”
He added: “We shouldn’t forget that this is a whole-game comparison and we are being ranked against some clubs who have received around £40m central funding since the inception of Super League in 1996. Indeed, top-end Championship clubs will also have had significantly more funding during that period too. Obviously, that has given them more opportunity to invest and grow their business and stadiums. That’s not a criticism, but a realism that we are not operating on a level playing field. It would be interesting to undertake a comparison of the IMG grading score ranked against the central funding received by each club since 1996. Going forward though, if we are serious about return on investment, we believe that there also needs to be some adjustment made to reflect that gap in central funding, even if it is just for the three-year period under review.”
Hampshire continued: “We are already working with Leeds City Council to address issues around the South Leeds Stadium, and are confident that our score will increase in that area in 2024. On the performance front the report period for 2023 covered 2020 to 2022 and so this year’s second-placed finish in Betfred League 1 will be taken into account in next year’s return.”
He concluded: “The RFL will now be undertaking a review of the IMG grading criteria process and we will certainly be happy to input into that. Oh for the days when the rewards for sport were focussed on how you performed on the pitch!”
Club Statement - IMG Grading Score - Hunslet RLFC
The Club have moved quickly to appraise their supporters - and the wider Rugby League public - of their reaction to their initial IMG grading score.hunsletrlfc.com
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True! We spent a few year's pretty avg on the pitch but spending on the clubs infrastructure and business, then when that started to bare fruit we then was in a position to buy a top coach and start building the squad. I can def see the likes of Wakey and Bradford looking at our blueprint and following it.Within 10 years would be great but the NRL took a long time to turn around after SL f**ked it.
Over the long term...boom!
Short sighted nature is what has held Rugby league back for a century.
The model is solid and will eventually produce results.
SL shouldn't be " see how it goes " more "that this is it indefinitely "
For teams wanting to join- get your shit together. Not- go buy a bunch of players for a season and you're in
Good on kr but business is hit and miss. Sometimes it catches and sometimes it takes time! For kr they just nailed it and got on a roll - we certainly can't expect that across the board.
Its still very reliant on finding a wealthy backer at the moment to be able to invest to grow. Not sure how, or if, that can be changed given there just isnt much money in sport outside of football in UK these days. Maybe just nature of beast and the clubs that can find a sugar daddy will be the ones who succeed.
That's right. Toronto has a sugar daddy!
There is nothing stopping Toronto applying to join League 1 and being graded!
The Sugar daddy!
In which case if they can find one then they can apply to join and be graded and work for an A class license.
Beutiful when the uk game doesn’t share the tv deal with certain expansion clubs and makes them pay for away teams travel costs
Thats the harsh reality when the game isnt earning much. No point in adding teams with greater costs if it means the whole comp collapses.
Lucky the nrl is earning enough to cover duds like Perth then hey
Ah perth again lol.
After that club had own the challenge cup as well
Fandom and Community look like the same thingHunslet share their rating:
Some six months down the line, Hunslet have been less than impressed by their ‘score’ as allocated by IMG. Their total of 6.94 (from a possible 20) comprises:
CEO Neil Hampshire said, in a message to Hunslet’s loyal fans posted on the club’s website: “The criteria are based on a mixture of three-year averages and in-year achievements. 2023 is a ‘dummy’ year so that clubs can get used to the process. The scoring will formally come into play in 2024 when the results from that year’s exercise will determine the top twelve teams in Super League for 2025.
- Performance: 0.46 (from a possible 5)
- Fandom: 2.05 (from a possible 5)
- Finances: 1.75 (from a possible 4.5)
- Stadium: 0.68 (from a possible 3)
- Community: 2.00 (from a possible 2.5)
“It’s important to note, though, that the grading score has absolutely no impact on promotion and relegation between Championship and League 1. Like us, I know a lot of you will look at the figure and see it as disappointing, but there are a few points I would make:
“As you will be aware, we voted against the introduction of grading. No one can ever be against improving standards, but this system has proved overly bureaucratic and complicated for fans to understand. As an example of the bureaucracy, completing the return also required us to submit duplicate figures to the RFL from the last two years; we have made it plain to the RFL that we do not accept that level of administrative burden to continue. From here on in we should, really, only have to provide data for one year.”
He added: “We shouldn’t forget that this is a whole-game comparison and we are being ranked against some clubs who have received around £40m central funding since the inception of Super League in 1996. Indeed, top-end Championship clubs will also have had significantly more funding during that period too. Obviously, that has given them more opportunity to invest and grow their business and stadiums. That’s not a criticism, but a realism that we are not operating on a level playing field. It would be interesting to undertake a comparison of the IMG grading score ranked against the central funding received by each club since 1996. Going forward though, if we are serious about return on investment, we believe that there also needs to be some adjustment made to reflect that gap in central funding, even if it is just for the three-year period under review.”
Hampshire continued: “We are already working with Leeds City Council to address issues around the South Leeds Stadium, and are confident that our score will increase in that area in 2024. On the performance front the report period for 2023 covered 2020 to 2022 and so this year’s second-placed finish in Betfred League 1 will be taken into account in next year’s return.”
He concluded: “The RFL will now be undertaking a review of the IMG grading criteria process and we will certainly be happy to input into that. Oh for the days when the rewards for sport were focussed on how you performed on the pitch!”
Club Statement - IMG Grading Score - Hunslet RLFC
The Club have moved quickly to appraise their supporters - and the wider Rugby League public - of their reaction to their initial IMG grading score.
Wakefield's release implies their points increase was based upon their 23 finances and increases in social media presence between August & October this year, not last.
I believe that the Wolfpack still have a bucket load of Cash, as they have been paying for USA teams to travel to Toronto this year for one off games. I feel they are upto something!! Could they be making a return to SL or join the USARL Competition or maybe join the “US North East” United RL setup.
