bonaire wrote:With regard to IMG i think they have pulled the wool over the eyes of the RFL ( not difficult though from past experience) and the RFL have bought in to having a large USA media corporation on board with the idea of selling R/L to a wider demographic.
Quote:The removal of automatic promotion and relegation is a huge mistake.
Quote:If a grading system based on certain criteria like Stadium,fan base,finance,catchment area is the best they can come up as an incentive then nothing will change
as it will still be the leading clubs in S/L who compete for the top six and C/C and therefore the performance rating becomes irrelevant to the other S/L clubs.
To lose Cas or Wakefield this season to be replaced by Featherstone is not any benefit to S/L or its image.
We have to hope Toulouse come good and beat them in the playoffs but again a team that finishes at the top of the Championship by several points has to go through a play off system is just ridiculous.
Realistically from next season there is no way back into S/L for any Championship team unless a team in S/L goes bust and many will go part time.
Apart from Toulouse who if they dont get back in S/L next season may pull out of the RFL i see Bradford as the only team to have a chance of ever entering S/L but that would take a very wealthy owner coming in,and moving the team to one of the cities football stadiums and as i said it would still probably have to be due to a S/L club going bust
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You want Toulouse in SL and I agree with you. Yet you don't want a a licensing system which is more or less advocated under the IMG proposals which would almost certainly allow Toulouse a place in SL.
