Best of British : Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:42 pm
Hi KR fans ....I was about to post on the Ha, Ha, Ha thread that it was quite wrong & immature to wish harm on another RL Club.
Having avoided posting here post MPG so as not to court or illicit negativity or ill feeling, I felt it time to chip in, low & behold I find the thread locked (no real surprise) & that the very 1st post is an insightful & intelligent dissertation by Hull12345 or whatever he calls himself.
So, the reason I am here. Well firstly to say hard luck, it can't be nice running that gamut of emotions during & after the game, but also to say that I hope you find your way back to SL soon.
I can't be two faced about these things & so I will lay it down straight. Originally & when it was concluded that KR would play Salford, I leant towards a KR win & survival in SL ahead of Salford. As comments came from Cockayne & Webster (very negative comment about Leigh) + Peacock's earlier comment about taking money back from the Championship & giving it to SL Clubs, I & quite a few others changed our opinion, instead wanting Salford to survive.
Now originally I felt that a team/club like KR who have a strong fan base & who travel in numbers have much more benefit to Leigh, Sky TV & Super League Clubs as a whole *financially* than Salford ever would, but some ill advised (I felt) comments swung the opinions of many.
Back to my original point.
I do hope you get back to SL quickly, not at the expense of Leigh obviously, but get back nevertheless. I hope Bradford make their way back too as I see a lot of benefit in having the Clubs with the strongest core fan bases in SL & on Sky TV, after all, who wants silent & empty stadia on TV & for other Clubs, a strong travelling away support brings revenue.
You will find that there is some very good & often more entertaining RL being played in the Championship. For those who haven't taken notice of 2nd tier until now, it has moved on quite well over recent years & you might find that some of the SL TV games were actually a bit of a bore fest by comparison.
So, not all is lost, my preference is to actually increase the number of SL Clubs & I for one hope that KR & Bradford are in the mix.
Best of British.