It makes you wonder what there modelling it on.
It’s the only sport I know of with league divisions that doesn’t have promotion and relegation allowing progress from bottom to top based on performance, that’s the whole idea of it.
It seems like a contradiction when it applies to only 2 out of the 3.
Only one way can be the right way not both at the same time.

I’d prefer it if they just came out and said we don’t care about teams from Halifax , Widnes , Featherstone, Batley etc etc we just want you to survive so we can leech off your best local talent then pretend they were brought through their academy. Don’t know why we don’t stick to fingers up to super league which is boring to watch anyway .

So Super League clubs get total central funding of £18 million; Championship clubs £1 and a half million and League 1 less than £300k.

That's the community spirit of Rugby League!

It's all very frustrating this IMG nonsense. I'm willing London to finish above Hull and Toulouse to beat Wakey in the play off final to defy the absurdity of London getting relegated and Wakey getting promoted and how the press will mock it. But they probably won't even bother reporting it.

Proponents of the system say that it encourages growth and trying to improve with a financial better you do ( more points ) the better you’ll be rewarded ( more central funding ).

How can there be growth without promotion and relegation?

How much will it cost to get an higher points grading say an extra 10, 20 or even 30 grand because if it’s more than that your running at a loss.

How many will stop coming to watch if you put grading points before performance points, again you’ll be running with another loss.

All the championship and league one clubs should meet up in the George hotel and breakaway from super league . Rename the sport and rewrite the rules to how it used to be when you could actually make a tackle without being scared of hurting someone’s earlobe ( players sign up to it knowing what there getting thereselves into whilst implementing the best modern care they can get ) promotion relegation reinstated negotiate a new tv deal . If the sport can grow organically from the bottom up rather than the top down gradually introduce regional divisions . Sport isn’t sport without hope n jeopardy.

No Tv deal means no incentive for investors, who’s going to pay for something to be advertised when no one can see it anyway?

[Part quote Don’t know why we don’t stick to fingers up to super league which is boring to watch anyway .'"

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.

This year especially has been great for SL clubs and their sponsors because every game has been shown home and away, consequently the entire viewing rugby league audience on a weekly rotating basis for those attending live with the rest watching on TV gets to see the adverts from every club multiple times on national TV.

But as mentioned before some of the Champ clubs did this to themselves by voting against it.

Compared to that the Champ and Champ 1 clubs have the same old few seeing the same things who probably never even notice what’s on display anyway after the first time of looking at it with no other coverage whatsoever.

Look at advertising from the point of a local business.

If you pay to advertise at Halifax Town, they have the odd game on the telly (BT sports or whatever it is called this year) and occasionally goals in football even at that level get shown on the telly.

Pay to advertise at the rugby, you might get your local sneaking into the background of a photo in the league express, or the courier. Neither publication can have decent circulation these days.

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?