Instead of using the "closed shop" model of Australia, they should be shoring up the lower leagues so whoever gets promoted doesn't just spend 1 season there getting battered week after week. While I admire London giving it a go, I'm not sure I could have put up with some of the cricket scores they amassed.

West Tigers hardly an advert for no relegation either. Consistently bottom half (if not bottom) for over a decade. So what's the answer?

I think we all agree the IMG system is ridiculous ....... if this would have happened in soccer the media would have been all over it like a rash, but RL get away with it because the media don't care, despite the IMG's delusion that RL stadiums require 50 press seats (lolololololol)

Everything connecting our game with IMG is e! Allus has been from day one. ...and we voted in favour of it. Grrr!

Looks like Salford are in dire straits financially. They are having a meeting and asking for £500,000 advance on their central funding. The whole sport is devoid of money at every level.

Tip of an enormous iceberg

Every RL club is running on fine margins, living month to month, one letter or demand away from been in the mire.

Only going to get worse, there's less and less central funding, less revenue coming in, and costs constantly going up. The employee national insurance contributions is going to hit some clubs hard next year. Im sure TonyFax mentioned on the accounts thread some clubs have over 100 employees, that's going to be a huge cost increase