Re: ""Super Eights " : Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:03 pm  

Its a power grab in a similar way in which the Premier League in football has managed to make the FA seem inferior. Thankfully it looks like it has been exposed before anything is signed and sealed and it is good to see so many club chairman actually speaking out freely.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:53 pm  

http://www.totalrl.com/championship-clu ... in-stance/ Interesting read. Unless the championship and championship 1 agree looks like they are stuck with the middle 8s until 2021

http://www.totalrl.com/championship-clu ... in-stance/ Interesting read. Unless the championship and championship 1 agree looks like they are stuck with the middle 8s until 2021

Re: ""Super Eights " : Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:20 pm  

There’s is now probably some irony that a large number of people who didn’t want the likes of Toulouse and Toronto to get in to Super League are now supporting that to put the noses of the big knobs in SL out of joint. From a Fax perspective those two teams going up would doubtless help us as the two teams coming down will generate more away support at the Shay.

So it will be interesting to see the next steps and also if the whole sport ends up in court or not over it.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:44 pm  

hooligan27 wrote:

http://www.totalrl.com/championship-clubs-stand-firm-in-stance/

Interesting read. Unless the championship and championship 1 agree looks like they are stuck with the middle 8s until 2021

This weeks press not surprisingly has a good few pages on it.
One report says in part.
The decision making process for the structure of next years comp is that the RFL board of directors will make the decision whether to stay with the existing structure or move to a more conventional structure with one club promoted and one relegated.
If the RFL decide to stick with the current structure the SL clubs could force a vote on it at the RFL Council meeting.
At the council meeting all SL clubs have 2 votes with the Champ and Champ 1 clubs 1 vote each.
The SL clubs excluding Leeds Rhinos could therefore muster 22 votes and the Champ clubs with Leeds voting with them muster 28 votes.
(Added, even if all the SL clubs voted in unison and get 24 votes if the Champ clubs vote together they would have a majority of 2 with 26 votes.)
Report continued.
Press understands the RFL would likely go with the SL clubs unless the Champ clubs could show them it was unfair to do so.

Added. The article doesn’t say if the Champ clubs can call for a vote if the RFL BOD decides to change the structure for next year at the next Coucil meeting.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:20 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

There’s is now probably some irony that a large number of people who didn’t want the likes of Toulouse and Toronto to get in to Super League are now supporting that to put the noses of the big knobs in SL out of joint. From a Fax perspective those two teams going up would doubtless help us as the two teams coming down will generate more away support at the Shay.

So it will be interesting to see the next steps and also if the whole sport ends up in court or not over it.

Toulouse and Toronto should be in $uper£eague or not in our leagues at all. Makes no sense for part-time teams to be doing all this flying. It's going to cost £5000+ to go to Toronto whereas we were promised they would pay all costs. Then there's the visa issues - Dewsbury ended up with 16 players at the weekend. No wonder Toronto are winning games - turning up shorthanded just makes the game look to be a shambles.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:26 am  

Toulouse and Toronto shouldn't be in either league.When we were in s/l i hated the bland home games against London/Paris with no away support.Can't see the prospect of 4 pointless home games appealing to anyone.Surely for eg Cas would rather have homes against us/Leigh/Bradford/Fev.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:22 pm  

Very hard to see what the gameplan for development of RL is . The easiest fix of all is to make professional clubs have a reserve grade . It's a hell of a lot simpler than pipe dreams in France and Canada. I am all for change but there has to be an element of practicality in what red Hall does and how it is communicated. I can't see that fat controller has left any form of sustainable legacy for the sport that provided him with an exceptionally generous life style and salary.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:27 pm  

makes the game look to be a shambles.

The game is a shambles i would love every S/L & Champioship Side to have Reserves but where are all the Players coming from ? The Amateur (i refuse to say community clubs) are also struggling with falling participation

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:39 pm  

1 up 1 down will pave the way once again for the yoyo clubs to safeguard the SL teams.
It won't work without a small SL2 of 8 teams.

Re: ""Super Eights " : Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:07 pm  

Rugby League is going the same way as the industrial heartland of the North.....down the pan.

A “working class” game, when we no longer have a working class in most of the towns the game is home to.

Simply to expensive for so many of those who live in these communities and who have to choose how to spend their incomes carefully.

The solution is two leagues of ten clubs. One up one down. Leagues to include North American and French teams each of twenty clubs to get equal allocation of funds, plus a graduated payment dependent upon league position.