Quote: Starbug "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'"
A large proportion of Sky money goes to SL clubs. As it should. The remaining sky money goes into RL as a whole. It goes into a pot that provides funds for non SL clubs. So non SL clubs get sky money...live with it
Many of the clubs are badly managed and marketed so it is no surprise that the RFL want money it spent on 'professional managers'.
The 'mandatory games' continue. And of course SL clubs pick up the best young players and they spend more on developing them (the RFL insisting on Sky money being spent this way - so Sky £ produces players that fill many C1&2 teams)). Its elementary.
With greater mobility and greater tv coverage many people are unwilling to pay comparatively high entrance prices for 2nd and 3rd tier rugby. That is there choice.