People have been predicting the demise of RL since it's inception. I guarantee that if the internet existed 50 years ago that it would be awash with posts from people complaining about the governing body, the referees, the play the ball, the standard of matches, the chairman, the BBC etc. The game will carry on no. I'm not burying my head in the sand or putting my fingers in my ears. I no the game has problems, but there're also many positives within the game. Do I agree with everything that the RFL and the S chairman decide? Of course not, but ATEOTD they're more qualified than I, or any other miserable old pleb with sand in their gash who "wants their game back".

I watch RL because I enjoy it, even the 5hite games are enjoyable for me. Of course I want every game to be close, competitive, and full of skill, but I know that's impossible, so I enjoy it anyway. If you don't then I'd suggest you go watch or you do something that you do enjoy, it's that simple.

It is quite possible, but I think we all know William isn't "concerned".....and hearing it every week also leads to questions why someone would spend their time doing so.......but some like to bury their heads to that question.

You can't expect The Printer to understand that simple logic. The second sentence is him to a tee.

Unless my reading is amiss you posted "Go follow another sport then"!! how can you deny that?

William loves this sport more than most and I would suggest he supports the sport at all levels far more than some one team supporters who can't see beyond what is happening at Headingley hence his posts of concern. The fact that you cannot see that suggests your ability to understand simple posts are questionable?

You have been to the last four games Leeds have played - in your view is that the standard the League should be offering? Its an embarrassment to elite level RL. You,it would appear, unlike William are only interested one club and not the game as a whole.

As a counter are London / Bradford any worse than the like of the awful Huddersfield, leigh and Halifax teams of the past?

Quite true and, in your case in particular, views are validated by reasoned argument and constructive suggestions on how matters may be improved. It seems to me that if someone continues to make the same criticisms and never put forward a sensible solution to the problems they perceive, then that person shouldn't be surprised when they get dismissed as appearing to be a "sado, pleasuring themselves over back copies of the Australian Rugby League Week in a darkened room". For the avoidance of doubt, the speech marks are not a reference to a previous quotation, I put them there for effect.

Because before you added "if you don't love what is on the field".....never wrote that at all.

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Totally agree Eagle which imo shows we need fewer teams and reduced play off numbers.
Hopefully a 12 team league will prove to be better but i disagree with the 3 x 8 format I'd go with top 5/6 and 1 up 1 down.

We probably have a player pool to sustain an 8 team top division. But (and I have no access to the books to assess this, so it's a question) could we keep generating enough revenue with so few games?

Maybe we should have been more radical, and siphoned off a chunk of the new TV deal money to run 3 or 4 big regional elite academies and run a NFL-style draft system for the resulting talent.

I'm not sure whether thats a serious suggestion or not.

Again waffling on about me apparently denying anything is wrong with the sport.....

Please quote where I've said this.'"

I did write "Go follow another sport then"

I however, did not write this....

"Go follow another sport then if you don't love what's on the field"

........Now where are these quotes of me saying the sport is in amazing health and thinking all is rosy?

Please share otherwise we'll all see that you made all that up in your head in poor agenda driven desperation and now look foolish.

He is. But does his model really differ much from what was done at Bradford in the 90s and early 2000s?

Or what Wigan were doing prior to imploding financially and having to sell their home to clear their debts?

Individuals with large sums of cash coming in can only ever be a short term fix, unless they address the underlying issues at their club to make it into a viable business. Koukash seems to have no interest in making Salford self-sustaining, just on paying over the odds for big name players.