Interesting that it is 'the sleeves' friend and sponsor to a current rhinos player that has been appointed as Administrator....

Should make any potential deals to sign any of their players much easier.

Too much of a stretch of the imagination for me.

I think we should sign Gareth Thomas - can you imagine the apoplexy it would cause at The Jungle next season, they'd self-combust before they worked out which bit of the club to hate first

Oh dear... never mind.

If it will help then I'm sure leeds will do there best to take a few good players off them.

As for celtic the RFL have to let them grow in the championship for a few years maybe back in super league in 6 years time

if they do go back into the championhip for 6 years i dont think they will survive

The scarlets used to do 1 round of union there in the celtic league but crowds were poor they have been poor at times for league. unfortunately there is no appatite in wrexham

Manufactured synthetic contrived Rugby League clubs that get hot housed into areas of this land that have never even heard of RL let alone have any interest in it are doomed from the start.

Maybe now the mentally challenged gifferes at Red Hall will realise that their recourses will be better spent nurturing our great sport in its heartland instead of trying polish a turd.

And the danger is that here, in its heartlands, where it is barely supported anyway, it will languish and die a slow death hastened only when players leave for more lucrative contracts in RU. The RFU got to the professional party late but stole the show from us years ago.

…and, IMO of course, that’s exactly why the limited recourses that the RFL have at their disposal should be aimed at rekindling interest in this sport where is has a sustainable chance of growth.

Rugby League in its ‘heartlands’ is far from reaching saturation point. Interest breeds interest – how many of us were introduced to RL by a friend or family member? I’m guessing all of us.

The RFL need to be looking at ‘Recommend a Friend’ or ‘Free for a Friend’ schemes instead of trying to generate interest from scratch.

When its basing itself in small towns in a very limited area of operation and generating sub-7000 crowds, whether heartlands or not, its not going to command the big money that Sky can offer and will go the same way as UK Ice Hockey and Basketball, a niche market only for those who are dedicated to the sport, not for casual observers and certainly not in sufficient numbers to justify a prime slot on Sky Sports One, when that sponsor goes then start ringing the bell because its over then.

That’s the scary thing about professional RL in this country. It is the sports Pay Masters that will decide if or when RL will die on its ar[sizes[/sizee. If they pull the plug then, although the sport will survive, it won’t have the cash to keep its best players and we’ll be back to those semi amateur days where your post match chats with the players will be more about negotiating the price of a new patio than how the game went.

Which is exactly what will happen, almost instantly, if we give up on the likes of Crusaders and Quins.

Quins may be a necessary evil to appease our Pay Masters by having a presence in our capital but Celtic was a total ‘none-starter’ from the offing.

It’s another failed experiment that will inevitably simply serve to embarrass our sport further.

Sponsorship cash = performing monkeys? Maybe a bit too far but would I rather watch top class RL that has to constantly suffer humiliation or semi-pro, parochial, low attendance RL?

Honestly…??? I’d have to think about it.