Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:35 pm  

Here’s a copy Andy paste of who will be getting what.

The Championship and League One Rugby League clubs have found out how much central funding has been proposed and how it will be distributed for the 2025 season.
As we discussed on the radio during the Sheffield Eagles vs Bradford Bulls game at the weekend, the funding will work down from 1st to 13th in the Championship and from 1st to 11th in League One based on where each club sits in the IMG Grading table.
So, the higher your IMG Grading, the more RFL central funding your club will receive.
There has been a slight decrease in the proposed funding with the top Championship club earning just under £150,000 for the 2025 season.
The 13th and bottom-placed Championship club would receive around £85,000, so an incremental difference of around £65,000 between the highest and lowest-placed Championship clubs.
In League One, the central distribution is squeezed further with the highest-placed League One club receiving only £33,000 and the lowest just £18,000. This represents a difference of £16,000 between the highest and lowest-placed League One club.
We worked it out at the weekend that if you shared the total amount of central funding equally, then each of the 24 clubs would receive around £73,000 each.
Unfortunately for the League One clubs, that won't be the case.
What is interesting to note is that promotion from League One to the Championship is worth an extra £50,000, so a great incentive for those clubs who start the League One playoffs this coming weekend.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:18 pm  

Everything IMG is utterly stupid. It's like they've been tasked with finding ways
Ys to kill the sport.
Clubs who are already scoring highest and need the least get the most. League position barely matters. What do they think supporters go to games for? It's like they've never been a fan of any team in any sport.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:01 pm  

Trustafox wrote:

Everything IMG is utterly stupid. It's like they've been tasked with finding ways
Ys to kill the sport.
Clubs who are already scoring highest and need the least get the most. League position barely matters. What do they think supporters go to games for? It's like they've never been a fan of any team in any sport.

That's pretty much it.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:44 pm  

It makes you wonder what there modelling it on.
It’s the only sport I know of with league divisions that doesn’t have promotion and relegation allowing progress from bottom to top based on performance, that’s the whole idea of it.
It seems like a contradiction when it applies to only 2 out of the 3.
Only one way can be the right way not both at the same time.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:29 am  

I’d prefer it if they just came out and said we don’t care about teams from Halifax , Widnes , Featherstone, Batley etc etc we just want you to survive so we can leech off your best local talent then pretend they were brought through their academy. Don’t know why we don’t stick to fingers up to super league which is boring to watch anyway .

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:23 am  

So Super League clubs get total central funding of £18 million; Championship clubs £1 and a half million and League 1 less than £300k.

That's the community spirit of Rugby League!

It's all very frustrating this IMG nonsense. I'm willing London to finish above Hull and Toulouse to beat Wakey in the play off final to defy the absurdity of London getting relegated and Wakey getting promoted and how the press will mock it. But they probably won't even bother reporting it.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:42 am  

Proponents of the system say that it encourages growth and trying to improve with a financial better you do ( more points ) the better you’ll be rewarded ( more central funding ).

How can there be growth without promotion and relegation?

How much will it cost to get an higher points grading say an extra 10, 20 or even 30 grand because if it’s more than that your running at a loss.

How many will stop coming to watch if you put grading points before performance points, again you’ll be running with another loss.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:03 am  

All the championship and league one clubs should meet up in the George hotel and breakaway from super league . Rename the sport and rewrite the rules to how it used to be when you could actually make a tackle without being scared of hurting someone’s earlobe ( players sign up to it knowing what there getting thereselves into whilst implementing the best modern care they can get ) promotion relegation reinstated negotiate a new tv deal . If the sport can grow organically from the bottom up rather than the top down gradually introduce regional divisions . Sport isn’t sport without hope n jeopardy.

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:07 am  

No Tv deal means no incentive for investors, who’s going to pay for something to be advertised when no one can see it anyway?

Re: Championship & Champ 1 2025 Central Funding Amounts. : Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:11 am  

[Part quote="Listenup94"] Don’t know why we don’t stick to fingers up to super league which is boring to watch anyway .[/quote]

Not into swearing, could I just stick my tongue out and pull funny faces.?