75% of clubs have to vote for the vote to count

If 6 of 14 clubs didn't vote, then only 57% of clubs could vote. As the RFL had an "Overriding" vote, then this may have been the only action clubs could have taken to ensure the new structure did not get 'Passed'.

If the above was the scenario and reason for the 'walk out', then I imagine that the atmosphere was very hostile.

Maybe the fact they walked out and made the situation where a vote could not be taken, meant it was a vote, a vote of no confidence in the way the RFL are ruling (or ruining) the game!
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Maybe those who walked out (probably all being successful business men in their own field) realised that the current people in charge are not up to it and decided to bring it to a head.

If that is the case and I think you're probably right, why didn't they forward a motion of no confidence at the meeting when the structure was first announced/discussed? It's the end of October and nobody has a clue what the SL will look like in February.

I’m really at a loss to see what the six SL clubs that walked out are hoping to achieve with this action. All they’ve done is further alienate themselves from the rest of the SL, not to mention the championship clubs. They might be under the impression that they can operate in a vacuum but they can’t. There has to be a consensus that the majority can agree on.

As a group they’ve not publically expressed clearly what their issues are and their potential solutions either so I looks from the outside like a big hissy fit.

While they might have perfectly understandable concerns I don’t think this action has done anything but damage their position and has made them look unprofessional. They may feel as if they’ve been backed into a corner but I believe the RFL’s proposal has been “on the table” for a long time so I’m a bit baffled as to why it’s come to a head so late.

All clubs seem to be more keen than ever to push their own interests whether that be the top 6 who want to have the chance to do their own deals for sponsorship of the competition or the championship clubs that aspire to SL status. Cool heads need to prevail so as to ensure the self interest doesn’t take over.

The problem with the 'self interested' theory is a number of these Chairmen are funding their clubs and therefore the game as a whole from their own pockets. If I was asked to stump up between 200k - £1m a year it would focus my interest. They are also of the view that as SL brings in the TV money and the TV money funds the RL, that indirectly through continually picking up losses in order to put a product on TV, it is they, not the RFL who pay the piper. Quite why they have waited this long to call the tune I don't know.

How many clubs are affiliated to the RL? Why do all these clubs have to bow down to the greed of the few. Let the SL clubs split and join with RU, in time it will make for a stronger, better, more honest game. Let Championship and Amateur clubs move the game along. I am sick of hearing of SL clubs Charitable Foundations (ha,ha) and also how they have produced so many players through their academies. The only players they get into their academies are produced by local amateur clubs who get sweet FA for 10 years of coaching and nurturing young players.

Just a question how as a club would we been able to vote seeing the RFL have not rubber stamped the change of ownership. This would suggest that any vote would have been flawed in the outset.

I'm I mistaken, but wasn't the vote on how the restructure was to happen due to take place after the World Cup as previously reported? Was this the RFL trying to push this through early - if that was the case, it seems unpalatable to me that they tried to railroad this through.
For the record, I'm very much against the 3x8 League format for 2015.

As redeverready says how could Bulls vote in any case and if they could which way would it be.
6 clubs walk out + Bulls unknown status = 50% of current SL clubs.
If a vote did take place we could end up with a similar situation to the government(s) of the UK - i.e. not representative of the majority and incapable of understanding what is best for the majority.

I don't know the exact the wording of that vote but it could it be that they were expected to vote to be either shot or hung and they would prefer neither.

What about the clubs that didn't even then up for the meeting ???

Maybe they didn't want to be shot of hung.

It really wouldn't surprise me if the RFL attempted to push this through prior to the Bulls being accepted for next year, as they may have put increased pressure on the new owners to vote for the option set by the RFL (almost like a condition of ratification).

If they had waited until after the World Cup, the Bulls would have already been ratified, and the new owners would be able to vote as they wanted.

I would be extremely surprised if this was the case, but the RFL do work in mysterious ways!

What about the clubs that didn't even then up for the meeting ???Maybe they didn't want to be shot of hung.

Anyone about to translate this?

While we're expected to break even on half the central funding despite being a new venture these greedy b'stards can literally go and f themselves for the damage this is causing. Simpy to feather their own clubs nests

Very interesting interview with Hetherington on Radio Leeds, it's still available on catch up apparently. In his damning indictment of the 6, among other things, he said all Championship, Championship 1 & SL clubs had agreed to the changes they had been discussing for the last year. The 6 also want a place on the independent executive or governing body of the RL.