Quote: johnny freeman fan club "The RFL have made the 9s a fiasco from start to finish. It seems to me to be an idea they thought of on one of their jolly away days after the wine had been flowing and they have made a right pigs ear of it.
Which other sport gives all profits to an opposing sport.
From what I can gather the 9s were intended to be at Stanley Park where they play League . The guys over at Blackpool have been working on the 9s and the evening dinner dance on the Saturday night since last Nov. This would have given a rugby league club a little bit of a lift.
Then the RFL shifted the 9s venue to Fylde Rugby Union ground but still allowed Blackpool Panthers to organise the evenings entertainment to compensate for change of venue. Then only a few weeks ago the RFL decided to change the evening dinner venue elsewhere as they needed the room themselves for RFL sponsors and stuff . Leaving the Panthers to find another venue at short notice and leaving Fylde rugby with a very lucritive Saturday. Then 4 days before the event the night do gets pulled because most of the teams drop their booked tables due to the fact the sponsors are holding their own dinner on Sun and the winning teams are going there .
You couldn`t make it up if you tried the whole lot of them are buffoons and that `s apart from the fiasco of the tickets.'"
Nothing surprises me with people running our game, either at national level or International Level. Certain teams favoured for SL, One Rule for one team and another for the rest. Doncaster, Hunslet, Rochdale left to rot whilst Celtic helped out as much as possible. No Financial Report from the World Cup saying how much profit has been made and where its going exactly, Dumb Circus in Blackpool which has little interest. Players can choose which ever Nation they want then change to another 6 months later!Really despair at the way the Sport is run at many levels.
