No harmony as yet.... www.superleague.co.uk/article/29 ... -statement

No harmony as yet.... www.superleague.co.uk/article/29 ... -statement

To have been a fly on the wall....

How on earth are they going to fix this? What a mess.

Leeds chief executive Gary Hetherington added: "I have been attending Super League meetings for 17 years and I have never seen anything like this before.

"It's appalling that a small number of men can disrupt a proper process by putting a gun to the head of the sport, making selfish self-interested demands.

"Every rugby league fan should be concerned with what these people are doing. They, along with every Championship club, and the majority of Super League clubs are paralysed whilst these six men flex their muscles."

This proves that a number of clubs ( and a few that did not walk out of the meeting ) are not happy with the way the RFL are ruining this great sport. They ( the RFL ) need to get there heads out of their backsides and start listening to clubs and start to administer this sport and not let it just hop along as it is now.

Sometimes change comes from revolution.

Interested to hear how other posters are seeing this. From the outside it looks like a coup. Wood/Solly have presented proposals to abandon licensing and alter structure and a number of Chairmen appear belatedly to have said the problem isn't entirely the structure - it's YOU.

There's a clamour for the return of P and R but it didn't work last time. The management of the licensing system and in particular the financial auditing of the clubs also leaves something to be desired. I haven't spoken to anyone who gets or thinks the 3 x 8 idea is a good one. GH, who normally talks sense, says the 6 Chairmen have caused chaos but it looks awfully like it was chaos anyway. What does chaos x chaos = ?

To some everything is the RFL's fault. Hetherington's statement clearly says different. The proposal that 6 (relatively wealthy) clubs walked out on was proposed & approved in principle by the majority of SL clubs. That is called listening. As GH rightly says, selfish self-interest.

Chaos x Chaos = rugby league down the drain. This sport is dying.

Agreed.

Even if clubs have changed their minds and don't want to go down that route any more, there are better ways of dealing with it than acting like children and walking out. Personally I'd be more tempted to change the rules so that anyone not present at future meetings doesn't get a vote. It's all very pathetic. If they have a valid argument, put that across and get everyone to agree to it. Unfortunately acting like responsible adults and leaders doesn't seem to be the way forward lately.

I read somewhere that the RFL had the casting vote on the new proposals and the clubs we're concerned that even if they had a majority vote, the 2 into 3 system would still be approved.

By walking out they actually prevented the vote as RFL rules state that at least 75% of the clubs have to cast a vote for it to stand. They felt that this was the only option.

There is also a feeling that the clubs we're not expecting to discuss the new system until after the world cup. They feel that yesterday's 'vote' was brought up with no warning.

I hope they continue to be stubborn, the RFL and Super League could do with a shake up. The least this sport deserves is a sponsor.

This just sums up the RFL and their shambolic running of the game.To me it's not whether the six who walked out are in the right or the wrong,it's the fact it's 2 days before the World Cup starts and this is the main news.The RFL have had months to come up with any new format.If anyone at the RFL had the know how to make a right decision they should of told all concerned months ago there is a new league format, end of.But they ask everyone what their thoughts are and drag it on and on and on till it comes to this on the eve of the World Cup.they preside over one disaster after another.

How many times was any new format talked about on Super League Backchat in the last couple of month of the season,it seems all are clueless at the RFL

Get rid of them all and get Maurice Lyndsey back to run it all

Quote: tigertot "To some everything is the RFL's fault. Hetherington's statement clearly says different. The proposal that 6 (relatively wealthy) clubs walked out on was proposed & approved in principle by the majority of SL clubs. That is called listening. As GH rightly says, selfish self-interest.'" I also think he's right here as well. www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/a ... saders-rfl You can't continually rearrange the chairs on the Titanic and not change the captain. Selfish self interest, yes. Completely without foundation, no. I don't think is as much about structure as cash and personnel. The RFL need the cash from SL/Sky and the 6 Chairmen are saying Wood must go.

Quote: tigertot "To some everything is the RFL's fault. Hetherington's statement clearly says different. The proposal that 6 (relatively wealthy) clubs walked out on was proposed & approved in principle by the majority of SL clubs. That is called listening. As GH rightly says, selfish self-interest.'" I also think he's right here as well. www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/a ... saders-rfl You can't continually rearrange the chairs on the Titanic and not change the captain. Selfish self interest, yes. Completely without foundation, no. I don't think is as much about structure as cash and personnel. The RFL need the cash from SL/Sky and the 6 Chairmen are saying Wood must go.

Interesting tweet from Salford owner Koukash (real account) last night.....

" I am not the greatest lover of RFL or Wood. There need to be a change and need to start delivering real value"

This was from a club that didn't walk out on the vote. The RFL are dubbing the 6 clubs as the minority, but I get the feeling that they are just playing with the words to make the 6 look like outcasts. Looking at what people are posting on social media, I think that has worked to some extent, many people are calling the clubs greedy, but I'm with M@islebugs, the clubs are wanting the RFL to start looking at themselves.

100% correct

If that was the case they should have had the vote then. The only logical reason they walked out was to stop the vote. I have no problem with anyone questioning the RFL, but to me they have an impossible job. When I see a sensible alternative I will happily support it. Posters want the RFL to listen to the clubs but at the same time want an authoritarian figure in charge. It's one or the other.