Quote hooligan27="hooligan27"Sport is about promotion relegation. Football you would not close the shop on the premiership or league one or 2 etc so why would you want a closed shop in super league.
For years with that franchising bollox there was nothing to play for in the championship and nothing for the bottom teams in superleague to fear. The middle 8s as had more views on sky than the super 8s.
When the likes of Barrow, Halifax won the grandfinals we should of been up not stopped by the fat controller. The franchiseing was crap wakefield was in administration Halifax ut in a good application proved we was running at a profit had a better stadium than half the super league clubs were still rejected.
The tv deal is crap for the championship. We used to have Thursday night games on premier sports which were brilliant until sky bought the rights now we get the blackpool bash and I wont count the middle 8s as they have not shown one championship v championship game at all.
When you superleague worshipers realise there are decent teams below super league you will see the bigger picture.
Good luck to leigh sunday send the dragens packing and leave egg on the fat controllers face
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Why is sport about Promotion and Relegation? Say's who?
The NFL is one of the biggest sports enterprises in the world and guess what it has no Promotion and Relegation.
Biggest basketball competition in the world? NBA
Biggest Hockey competition? NHL
Biggest Rugby League competition? NRL
Neither have promotion and relegation but they all do just fine and are no less of a sport than those that do have Promotion and Relegation .
A competition can thrive and be successful without Promotion and Relegation if the aim is to make sure that the teams in such a competition are evenly matched as possible.
The problem with Super League and it has been this way since the start is the depth of competition hasn’t been deep enough. Promotion and Relegation doesn’t solve that problem and doesn’t magically raise the standards at all.
We need to bring back licensing and we need a real change in Super league. A competition that can be called the M62 Super league is not the answer. We need a minimum of 1 French side but ideally two. If Toronto is a viable business we need them in Super league Asap.
Asking them all to try and get Promoted (If Catalan go down) is just nonsensical when we have a competition on it's knees in terms of sponsorship and commercial revenue.
We are not going to generate any more revenue with promotion and relegation and a competition stuck in the M62. We need real changes and something really different to what it there at the moment.
