So tomorrow at 10:30am we finally find out our IMG grading. The excitement is almost too much to bare when it is set to be revealed that we are back to the same clubs from 2023 that has contributed to a gradual decline in tv revenue and viewing figures.

Anyone know how much the game has paid to IMG to get to this point?

I've seen £450k consultancy fees plus £300k for non-executive directors of RFL and RL commercial so £3/4million pa. Good job the game's flush with cash.....

I thought they were mainly on performance related pay. Something like 30% of any improvement they make to all commercial deals

Do they owe the RFL then?

It'll be fascinating to see where we are in the scheme of things. The current Superleague teams hold all the advantages in keeping the 12 available places. I'm not really sure how we can score higher than any of those teams with the obvious financial discrepancies. Perhaps we are looking to force expansion by attaining an A grade in the coming years?

we'll still be 14th. The gap will be narrower but we won't be able to close it without winning things - 0.25 for the championship final, 0.1 for 1895 cup etc. Or by massive investment in Odsal.
Going to 14 teams will be our best shot.

I saw someone on facebook saying we'd be 15th. But I can't see which championship team would be above us. I'm expecting 14th

I'm expecting 14th too but it's all academic. Does anyone really expect SL to expand? Will SL clubs really want to see their share of TV money go 14 ways instead of 12? I remember when they decided to keep our SL money from Omar Khan back in 2013, effectively ruining the club from the start. There's no way those same clubs will vote to expand the competition if they lose money as a result.

The only way in is if a SL club utterly implodes and then the 13th club will get to make up the numbers or if we get a rich sugar daddy who's prepared not only to fund everything to get an A grade - even then they'd probably need to assure SL that they wouldn't ask for their share of TV money. Then, maybe.

We'll probably need to wait a few years before everyone realises that deciding where clubs sit by checking a spreadsheet every October isn't working and we go back to how things were. We had this under licensing and I didn't spot any improvements then.

16th?! Damn. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/63 ... s-for-2024

16th?! Damn. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/63 ... s-for-2024

Gap is wider. just short of 2 points away from 12th. Toulouse only 0.5 points away.