Quote rhinoms="rhinoms"Lets get this straight i personally (and i think ls16 is the same) have not said that RL is a failure in Wales.
My points are purely aimed at the Crusaders franchise in SL and how it's failed to get established where it was intended to be based.
The thriving amateur scene is great but does'nt detract from the thus far farce of the Crusaders plight in SL imo.'"
Quote rhinoms="Lord_Percy"I saw a bit of Sport Wales last night that had a brief feature on Crusaders. They were saying that the lease on the Brewery Field was still a millstone round the clubs neck, which made it sound like the previous owner wasn't exactly doing things by the book, seeing as he owned both the ground and the club.'"
I think the lesson from this is that as part of any franchising agreement, the league need to take a harder look at what stadium facilities the club has.
I was thinking about how the NFL run their expansion. Granted, it's on a bigger scale with ten figure sums typically being in play. In that case, expansion typically requires a new stadium. That isn't going to be practical in rugby league, but perhaps putting the ground lease through the RFL would help. For example, how about the ground rent and rent contract is held by SLE, and the payments deducted from the Sky payment to the club.
