Watching Salford v Cats on the beeb and the ground was swimming in adverts due to the presence of the cameras. Must be worth a few extra grand. I remember when SKY paid clubs when they were the ones being televised before the SL era, and IIRC the away team got a bigger share of the TV appearance because the home team could claim the whole of the extra ground advertising revenue.

Agree, and don't invite Toulouse and London. Have smaller squads, just have 2 subs and revert to the 5 yard defensive rule (I've always thought 10 yards is too much of a killer).

Have a relatively low salary cap meaning ALL teams would have to include at least 4 or 5 "cheap" young up and coming players.

Have several competitions running side by side giving a greater chance for silverware. When I warra lad we had the Yorkshire/Lancashire Cup, the John Player/Regal Trophy, the BBC Floodlit Cup, the Championship and the Challenge Cup. We even had the Charity Shield on the Isle of Man.

And I'd seriously go back to winter rugby. Those dark gloomy Sunday afternoons were made much better with a fill of good RL, especially the Boxing Day local derbies.

Stuff SL. They're a bask case anyway waiting to implode.

Pretty loose assessment with some things having changed from when the indicative 2024 gradings were issued in 2023 but using that table as a rough guide Fax would be around 7th on the Championship list receiving somewhere around the £120 grand mark give or take.

1. £150k
2. £145k.
3. £140k.
4. £135k.
6. £130k.
7. £125k
8. £120k
9. £110k
10. £105k.
11.£ 100k.
12. £95k.
13 £85k

With the surplus £5k to be spread across the 13.

I wonder if IMG have enough data in their spreadsheets to let us know who will be promoted and relegated in 2025 yet?

Some information here as of a couple of hours ago.
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Simple really.

The central funding should be withheld from Hull and Huddersfield, they're a disgrace! Full time pros getting thrashed like that on their own turf, quite a shambles. Do you think Grix has lost the Hull changing room?