Ridiculous. Catalans would be in a top 8 of super league clubs. Just because they are french doesnt mean a thing. The quicker people realise that they deserve to be here the better. They outperform Castleford, Wakefield, Salford and Harlequins in almost every disipline.

I think I would temper the visionary term, by adding; aceeding to Sky's demands.

I always thought Lindsay's big vision was how to resurrect and then bankrupt the biggest name in the sport.

Re - The proposals for mergers, if the vision was to rile most of, if not all, the heartland Rugby League communitites then he succeeded and then some.

Of course in the end the biggest thing that came out of the Sky SL deal was the switch from winter to summer and even that wasn't a Lyndsay vision as that came off the back of Messers Hetherington and Caisley as I recall.

the leeds and bradford totals are from after the play offs too

Why do you say that?

The totals are all just from the League campaigns.

Leeds - 2005 - Pts For 1152 (R), Pts Agst 505, Pts Diff 647 (R)
Bradford - 2001 - Pts For 1120, Pts Agst 474, Pts Diff 646
Bradford - 2000 - Pts For 1004, Pts Agst 408, Pts Diff 596
Leeds - 2004 - Pts For 1037, Pts Agst 443, Pts Diff 594

(R) = SL Era Record

Warrington - 2011 - Pts For 999, Pts Agst 377, Pts Diff 622
*As Warrington still have two games to play they haven't yet earned or finalised their place on the table.

The four current highest points differences all occurred in 28 game League seasons. Should Warrington bust into the Leeds/Bradford love in they will have done so while playing one fewer game.

Or it was a pre-cursor to shady dealings by News Internationals Sunday broadsheets who chose not to pulblish an article about a high profile figure near the to of the RFL in return for his cooperation.

Allegedly.