Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:46 am  

WalterWizard wrote:

I think the ONLY Super League teams who OWN their own ground are:

Warrington
St. Helens
Hull KR
Castleford
Wakefield
Leeds

Not sure about Widnes and Catalans

That's fine, would sort the problem with the lack of talent. Each of the teams would be much higher quality with much more competition for places. We could even have a 'draft pick' live on Sky, which would be great publicity as I don't think any other competition in world sport has ever axed more than half it's teams and auctioned their players off to the remamining clubs before. We could play each other home and away twice, with an extra fixture against each club at one of the 5 magic weekends.

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:17 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

That's fine, would sort the problem with the lack of talent. Each of the teams would be much higher quality with much more competition for places. We could even have a 'draft pick' live on Sky, which would be great personality as I don't think any other competition in world sport has ever axed more than half it's teams and auctioned their players off to the remamining clubs before. We could play each other home and away twice, with an extra fixture against each club at one of the 5 magic weekends.

you and sally are becoming like a tag team!

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:23 pm  

A 6 team league would be fine by me.

Just go back to a top 6 playoff at the end of the season.

Imagine the excitement, what other sport could offer a system where the team that gets relegated for finishing bottom, could also be the Grand Final winners.

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:27 pm  

See! As if by magic...

[Winslade's Offload]

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:57 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Small clubs that don't own their own ground shouldn't be allowed in the big boys league.

If I didnt know you better, I might have thought that was a sly dig at a club ending with an n, beginning with a Wi and having a ga in the middle.

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:57 pm  

Similar thing happened to Wigan just a few weeks ago. Game scheduled for the Saturday v Salford; Wigan Athletic were playing Chelsea on Sunday dinnertime and told Wigan to move their Super League fixture to the Monday night so they could prepare.

Re: Dirty end of the stick... : Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:39 pm  

Apparently Salford notified the RFL and Sky about this weeks ago. Why they couldn't have picked the Wigan v Saints game as the Saturday game and had Salford v Wakefield on the Friday is beyond me.

If Hull KR had hung on to their 26 point lead last week I'll guarantee that Wigan v Saints would have been played on the Saturday anyway with us v Widnes on the Friday.