Hetherington needs to quit, his position is untenable. He has embarrassed this club with his comments, and throwing the teddy out the cot for not getting his way. To be the only top flight club with this stance, shows how out of touch he is with the modern game. Really needs to go hide behind a rock now, and keep his mouth shut. As fans all we can hope is that we as a club, as a result of him, are not alienated by the other clubs.

If Hetherington has lost the debate, why should the other clubs care?

In the end there will only be one winner and that is the club with the most money, Wigan, Saints and Warrington are having their day of glory, it won't last long, these three teams their gates are falling, they don't own their grounds their way of raising money is to take a larger slice of the pie from Sky, the reason why they did not raise the number of teams in SL to either 14 or 15 is because the pie would be spread thinner, hence the loop games play a team three times in the season, who is betting that these three teams end up with playing Leeds three times , simply because of the number of supporters they take to away matches. No disrespect to the likes of Salford and Widnes, but how many supporters do they take on their away travels.
I don't agree with what has Happened, I don't agree with what GH was proposing, I would have liked to have seen SL grow to 15 teams, one relegated and the top 4 play to go to the GF, unfortunately the Chairman are not clever people they think of tomorrow not 5 years down the line. Trust me there are some thick chairman in SL. One meeting I was in one Chairman was looking to sell their super league franchise to another club who play in the championship, move everything to this club, candidly I would not employ these chairman to run my firm if they was the last people on this earth. They cant run a business how can they try run a sport

This loop fixture thing ? If there are say 4-5 teams who are most fancied to win SL before the season starts ,will they all get the same Loop fixtures or will some get easier or harder ones ?

I'm not sure if I'm remember correctly but I think in the past they've done the loop fixtures based on the previous year's finishing positions - splitting the teams into 2 group of 6 (1st/3rd/5th/7th/9th/11th and 2nd/4th/6th/8th/10th/12th) and then each team playing the 6 teams from the other group so you get a similar set of easier/harder fixture. Of course, this year you'd probably have to count the top 4 in the middle 8s as finishing 9th to 12th.

He probably is out of touch with the modern game.,though only in as far as Leeds is one of the few clubs not losing money hand over fist. Understandable that he wouldn't take the short-term view of his counterparts.

maybe you need to quite this forum your position is untenable, you come on here and think you are the epitome of wisdom on all things RL. but don't no half you think you do. so what if Hetherington made a stand against the other chairmen, quite clearly is was the 3 fat cats who bullied the other chairmen in to their way of thinking as the lesser clubs are so desperate with there poor crowds to lose any sky money. its easy to bully your agenda onto desperate week men, its much harder to make the stand against it.

Shut up you big tart. What a silly post.

The rest of the game have voted this. All the media who have an interest had the same opinion. Hetheringtons position was self interest, and nothing more here.

You might well have had a point had other clubs without self interest backed him, but they didn’t. The whole game has a different view. And there may well have been a couple of clubs bullied, but not with the size of majority. Even the community game voted agains GH View, that tells you all you need to know about your own view.

If GH had have had the games interest he should have backed the changes but with conditions of his own. We should have had a 14 team top league, without loop fixtures, and he could hav3 led that. But anything is an improvement on the ridiculous eights.

i don't support Gh views at all, but i don't support your view that he should quite just for not being rail roaded into into by other club chairman, and has the rest of the clubs at lower level where told accept it or else. he probably was right to make a stand. personally glad to see back of 8's and i actually agree with you 14 teams and not loop fixtures should have been way to go.

What is the structure 14 team SL? If so does that mean the top 6 of middle eights are in?

so when do we find out which teams voted Yes and which No

It was a secret ballot

We don't have the quality to run 14 teams.

Or 12 teams for that matter. Repeat fixtures are ridiculous though.

All the SL clubs bar Leeds voted for it.