Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:32 pm  

ap1717 wrote: what has instigated this drop in attendances? I think it was the players being asked to take pay cuts and some players leaving. I fail to see how apportioning blame is sensible,(regarding spectators) when it appears as though the people at the top are to blame and allowing those who let the club disintegrate are permitted to buy it back. Link Why don't these people pay what they have to pay ?

ap1717 wrote: what has instigated this drop in attendances? I think it was the players being asked to take pay cuts and some players leaving. I fail to see how apportioning blame is sensible,(regarding spectators) when it appears as though the people at the top are to blame and allowing those who let the club disintegrate are permitted to buy it back. Link Why don't these people pay what they have to pay ?

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:46 pm  

Leyther Always wrote:

Not to rosy in SL! Look at the uncertainty at Quins!

Teams shouldn't spend above their means all to easy to blame the RFL for no P & R etc

I get the poor PR bit but who is the spending above their means bit aimed at?

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:03 pm  

Aren't most of the teams in super league in financial difficulties. I'd suggest Rugby League in general is in a very unhealthy state. If anybody tries to say otherwise then they are just kidding themselves.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:15 pm  

splodge99 wrote:

Aren't most of the teams in super league in financial difficulties. I'd suggest Rugby League in general is in a very unhealthy state. If anybody tries to say otherwise then they are just kidding themselves.

You dont spend much time on here do you? The game is as healthy as it has even been. The game is shitt*ng money. They say so on the VT and woe be tide you suggest otherwise.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:00 am  

mapleyther wrote:

losing every week didn't help.

Oldham also have a winding up order against them. RL outside of SL is on its knees - the rate we are going, London Skolars and Gateshead will make the C1 play-offs next season without needing to win a match!

and super league wants to review promotion and relegation by selction only THIS IS WHY RUGBY LEAGUE IS DYING and them idiots at the top cant see it

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:27 pm  

splodge99 wrote:

Aren't most of the teams in super league in financial difficulties. I'd suggest Rugby League in general is in a very unhealthy state. If anybody tries to say otherwise then they are just kidding themselves.

Not just Super League, not just the National Leagues, not just Rugby League - it's every team in every sport who doesn't have a sugar daddy, but still trying to 'live the dream.'

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:23 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

Still is a heartland of talent and plenty of RL spectators as well. Trouble is, those spectators would rather travel hundreds of miles to watch Super League games rather than watch the teams on their doorstep.

Generally I'm against mergers because they usually only benefit one club and one set of fans but if what you say is true, surely there is a very strong case for a club representing the whole of Cumbria to be put forward for SL.

Don't get me wrong I appreciate the tradition and history of the Cumbrian clubs, but if what you say is true and fans of the sport would rather watch a SL side over their own, surely there can't be too strong an argument against it?

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:38 pm  

One good team in a central location, could work in cumbria, cant be worse than the Quims can it

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:28 pm  

Any game where one of the top clubs announces a deficit 10 times the amount that drove another club to the wall and dosn't bat an eyelid is on a downward spiral.

But hey it'll all turn out right in the end.

Don't forget another sport has a new sponsor , is on another subsciption channel, and is getting bucket loads of media intest except probably from the previous broadcaster ( NRL anyone?)

If a broadcaster decides it dosn't want to pay the same amount for a product but less for more ( M& S were/are renowned for doing that) then the game will survive but no way in its' current form.

The next 12-18 months are crucial to the state of professional RL in this country.

As things stand at the moment I am not sure that the foundations are that strong and the edifice could come tumbling down.

We shall see.

Re: 'haven face a winding up order : Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:43 pm  

Kingmaker wrote:

Generally I'm against mergers because they usually only benefit one club and one set of fans but if what you say is true, surely there is a very strong case for a club representing the whole of Cumbria to be put forward for SL.

Don't get me wrong I appreciate the tradition and history of the Cumbrian clubs, but if what you say is true and fans of the sport would rather watch a SL side over their own, surely there can't be too strong an argument against it?

Workington to Barrow is 60 miles down the A595 - which is still single track in places. If you're going to drive an hour and a half or more to watch rugby, you might just as well go down the M6 to Wigan or Saints?