Re: Championship - A death trap for clubs : Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:10 am  

Joff wrote:

Will the Championship become SL2?

No as renaming it would make absolutely no difference whatsoever

Re: Championship - A death trap for clubs : Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:29 am  

mapleyther wrote:

Well if you want to talk small time and heritage then you can add Huddersfield, Castleford, Wakefield, Salford and Widnes to the list. We will be left with perhaps 6 independent and fully professional clubs in the UK. Is that what we really want? Frankly, I don’t.

In the current sports market place, a league that involves 4k gates at Widnes, Wakey and Salford cannot and will not deliver a decent TV deal.....without that deal, the game will wither and die.
Hard choices need to be made. Wakefield......either merge with Castleford or at least share a new stadium. Widnes.....sorry, but natural selection is doing it's job there as it is in Salford......both clubs need an injection of major cash or a shot of strychnine ......Huddersfield can either step up their game or join another merged super club........if we continue to let the tail wag the dog we will be dead as a pro sport inside twenty years.....

Re: Championship - A death trap for clubs : Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:40 am  

Call Me God wrote:

In the current sports market place, a league that involves 4k gates at Widnes, Wakey and Salford cannot and will not deliver a decent TV deal.....without that deal, the game will wither and die.
Hard choices need to be made. Wakefield......either merge with Castleford or at least share a new stadium. Widnes.....sorry, but natural selection is doing it's job there as it is in Salford......both clubs need an injection of major cash or a shot of strychnine ......Huddersfield can either step up their game or join another merged super club........if we continue to let the tail wag the dog we will be dead as a pro sport inside twenty years.....

You know it won't happen , same conversation in 10 years time

Re: Championship - A death trap for clubs : Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:41 am  

I enjoyed watching Wires when a lot of the players were semi pro and we played in a crumbling wreck of a ground with an often godawful team. If the game goes semi pro again it doesn't mean it will cease to exist or people who have enjoyed it all their lives will stop liking it. RL attracts some drama queens.