What a load of tosh. The ONLY way to get more sponsorships is to make the game more competetive and entertaining. You cant sell a turd !!!! or a shortened version of a turd !


3/4 of the season is irrelevant and it shows. Appart from the top 3 nobody is interested in hub and cup because they know its impossible.

80% of clubs can't invest because they simply dont have the money

Whilst youngsters need to be developed and some will excel they can't be the focus of top tier rugby.

My opinion ( after all thats what a forums about)

1 Get rid of Stevo and the Club Call.

2 Get back to a situation where the referees apply the rules and not their opinions. There is only 1 interpretation (Stevo). Its based on writen english and why rules are written.

3 Change the TMO rules so that refereees have to be specific about what they are questioning and limit the TMO to that specific question, its ridiculous that TMO's replay the last play and referee the whole thing again. If the ref missed it. He missed it

4 get back to a league being a league that means something scrap the playoffs

4 Create a super cup for the top 8

6 Change the distribution of cash from sky and league ( not sure how this currently works):- so

6a a proportion of the money is means tested and payed according to need. Including a proportion to support the youth development.

6b a proportion of the money is performance related and payed on results

7 Return to promotion and relegation for those clubs that can provide the necessary facilities

Then maybe in a few years we might start to compete with football and RU.

There is nothing wrong with the current set up. There is promotion and relegation, it's just that the RFL have not had the balls to relegate either Cas or Wakey. If a SL had gone in either of the licencing periods, there would have been a clear gateway for Championship clubs to get promotion.

The three year licencing period has allowed teams like Wakey, Cas, London etc to give youth players a chance rather than fill their squads with journeyman Aussies like they did when they were under yearly threat of relegation.

My thoughts would be:

Drop the league to 12 and have the top 6 play off (though I still think I preferred the 5), this rids us of the ridiculous club call.
To ensure that every game remains competitive, have one of the relegation criteria as average points per game. Lowest contributes to relegation, that should go a way to stopping teams coasting towards the end of the year.

Just get rid of Wigan, that would lift the dark cloud covering the sport.

You don’t really mean that, who would you slag? I wouldn’t want a league with you men. It’s a love to hate thing. By the way, that rain cloud you’re on about, it’s not rain Saints can feel, its Wigan doing something else on you.

Meh. The lovely roof on our brand new stadium (that we own all by ourselves) keeps the rain out very nicely thank you. You're not getting too cold sleeping under that box are you?