So the club have set up a group of people to help us get ready for the Img proposals. On the face of this it looks like a good move by the club to prepare for what is to come with regards to the gradings set out by Img and gives us the best chance possible to get the highest grading we can.

Looks like we have some educated people on board and it’s great to see real long term planning for the club . The shadow and lack of clarity around img is probably one of the reasons why we haven’t gone all in on the recruitment front and why we’re seeing more emphasis on the wheelchair and women’s teams . Would be frustrating if the meeting is called off today with the predicted bad weather.

It was interesting reading the groups Bios. Let’s hope they are able to move the club forward in whatever IMG decide to instigate “for the good of the game.” I hope it is for the good of the game at all leaves and not just the SL teams. I feel that to strengthen our sport the lower leagues and amateur games need to be supported to get more people watching and playing not just more money in SL clubs. The stronger the roots of a tree are the healthier the top of tree is. Having strong, well supported championship and champ 1 and A team comps and academies the stronger the top tear and our international teams will be.
However I feel, despite all the talk of expanding the women’s and wheelchair game, it will be very SL focused and in favour of those teams. Glad the club have appointed these people. Let’s hope the meeting is still on.

To me it always feels like the womens team was just a box ticking exersize rather than the club been fully behind it, I mean they have not even been allowed to play a game at the Shay and instead basically moved the Brighouse team and farmed them off up to Ovenden and at the moment the team is a long way off the standard required to play at Championship level nevermind SL. When you compare to Swinton and Sheffield who have been fully backed by their clubs its easy to see we are a long way off.

Everything must start somewhere and somethings will be more advanced than others, hard to say much until everyone knows what’s going on but at least we’ve made a start.
I just hope that whatever boxes there’s are to tick those that set them out realise there’s a price to pay with little money available to do so.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... n-26430163

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... n-26430163

Not a lot's changed there then. When you attempt to improve a sport and only 25% of your solutions are connected to performance summat's badly wrong! Hopefully Fax don't vote in favour of these proposals. BTW, what's fandom?

Some talent on the IPG. Exciting times and important times for the club.

Can’t help feeling that with being in the championship we are hamstrung when it comes to point scoring in the criteria - best way to have £4 million turnover, 10,000 attendance and 40% of stadium being used is to be playing the very best week in and week out in a vibrant competition with risk, surely..?

https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... B81%5D.pdf Bit more in-depth.

https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... B81%5D.pdf Bit more in-depth.

Well at least provisionally the targets have been set out, how realistic it is for clubs such as us who have ambitions to reach them is another thing but whether they can or can’t it will be down to them to determine what current level each of them is at.

Because of being in the highest division it was inevitable that the existing SL clubs would be better placed for an initial higher grading.

Since the goal is always to aim upwards IMG were always going to start at the top.

With that in mind the reasoning is, why should the best of the sport of rugby league (SL) lower the standards to match that of say the Championship?

Or the second best, Championship to Championship 1 level, would we be happy to do that?

is hardly Rugby League reimagined. Below is the list of criteria for SL licensing for 2009-2011

Attendances

A point will be awarded to clubs with an average attendance of around 10,000 spectators. Another point will be awarded if stadiums are operating at 40 per cent capacity.[13]

Finances

Teams will receive a point if they are solvent. Another point will be awarded if their turnover is more than £4 million.[13]

Player strength

Teams earn one point if they are considered to have made a contribution to the competition - that means averaging a place in the top eight over each of the last three seasons. Another point is available to clubs who make a contribution to home-grown player development. That means at least eight members of a first-team squad of 25 should be discovered, trained and developed in the team's home country (United Kingdom or France).[13]

Salary cap

One point is on offer to teams who have not committed a major breach of the salary cap in the last three seasons.[13]

Geographical expansion

The final point goes to clubs who do not have another rugby league club within a 20-mile radius

An alternative viewpoint https://keighleycougars.uk/keighley-cou ... -proposals

An alternative viewpoint https://keighleycougars.uk/keighley-cou ... -proposals