Quote: Marsdengiant "Perhaps these are RL fans who know that Championship clubs DO get some Sky money. Perhaps these are RL fans who know about the mandatory friendlies with SL clubs where the lower club gets 100% of revenue. Perhaps these are RL fans who know that a greater proportion of players coming through SL academies end up at championship clubs. Perhaps these are RL fans who understand how dual registration will help the finances of championship sides.
The Oldham players in the England team came through the Leeds and Saints youth structures. Previously 2 top players in Scully and Harris came through Warrington (when Oldham was a SL club!). There are are some very good Oldham kids on the books of several SL teams.
I hope Oldham survive and thrive. Attributing their problems to Sky / SL is nonsense. An understanding of the earlier Quin ownership may be a better starting point.'"
Championship clubs get No SKY money , they do have access to funds to provide certain non playing staff positions at clubs [ Full time CEO's which many clubs dont need , and ' marketing ' people with a brief to bring in investmet from businesses preferably ' sugar daddy ' type investment ]
Clubs also only recieve Co-op sponsorship money if they have a home televised game
They do recieve some ' central ' funding , around 20 K if I remember correctly
The ' mandatory ' friendlies went out the window ages back [ not well thought out as having 11 british SL clubs and 20 is NL clubs meant that each SL club would have had to play 2 matches to give every club a home game ] , the SL clubs also just started sending under 18's teams and the fans of the NL clubs and the SL fans soon got bored with that
Yes the bulk of NL/Championship players are ex SL academies , hardly surprising that the SL clubs pick up the best juniors is it sherlock
The whole RFL attitude to the lower tiers needs to change or we wont have much of a lower tier in a few years