This man seems on a mission to destroy rugby league. He thinks he is the chairman of the biggest club in RL (I don't know how seeing as though they don't even own their own ground) and that he can throw his weight around. He makes Maurice Lindsay look like a saint, Lenegan clearly doesn't care about rugby league just his own agenda.

what should he do offer the struggling clubs 400k to say no? Stop being stupid.

A statement from RFL Chairman Brian Barwick
For immediate publication: Wednesday February 5
I have been disappointed by the public response of a small minority of Super League clubs to the securing of a new broadcast agreement with our long-term partners, Sky Sports.
Without question, Sky have provided an outstanding service to the game in producing both live and associated programming that has been the envy of many other sports. And they have done it for two decades.
Therefore to retain this long-standing broadcast partnership, and at significantly increased financial terms, is indeed a great win for Rugby League.
Also, the terms of the new contract which starts in 2017 are so beneficial that they give Super League clubs, Championships clubs and the community game a fantastic, secure and long-sighted platform from which to build their futures and develop our great sport.
As to the Super League clubs meeting last week, I won’t go into detail, but suffice to say, after hearing a comprehensive presentation on all aspects of the new deal, the clubs themselves voted to vote on the proposal.
Most of the clubs recognised that the best result for the immediate future of the game was in front of them, as indeed the significant majority that voted in favour of the offer from Sky Sports underlined. The other clubs were able to vote against it as they saw fit, which is appropriate.
What I feel isn't appropriate, though, is the tone and content of the criticism by some of the Super League clubs who have their own reservations about the deal.
This broadcast contract is the biggest in Rugby League history and actually offers Super League clubs an uplift of 63 per cent in annual distributions. It is also the latest in a number of upbeat initiatives we have enjoyed in recent months: with such a strong wind in our sails, I will not stand by and allow the sport to be blown off-course.

What is stupid is voting for it (Koukash wasn't pressured in to doing so, why was Lenegan? Is he just a bit of a wimp?) then whining about it in Public. Either stand up for what you think is right or don't but not standing up for yourself and then whinging and bad mouthing in the press is just pathetic.

Whatever the validity of Lenegans concerns, they lose a whole lot credibility when it is pointed out that this is a deal he voted for, in a process he consented to.

Lenegan needs to either man up or shut up.

Leneghan's just playing the game.

I don't really care how he voted, i for one welcome his regular public outcrys if it brings the spotlight onto the cretins running this ailing game.

The SL clubs have the final say on the television deal.

The SL clubs have the final say on the commercial rights of SL.

And yet, the clubs appear to be whining like little b*tches about a deal that they had the final say over, and their acolyte fans are falling over themselves to laud them for it.

You couldn't make it up. Lenegan and Koukash are perfect examples that you can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time.