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OK, here's another wacky idea that is probably e and probably wouldn't work, but... icon_smile.gif

Create a 'Nomads' team that plays in the super league. However, instead of being attached to any one area, they are permanently 'on the road'. They play their 'home' fixtures against the other superleague teams in different stadiums around the country (e.g. outside the traditional heartlands). Wherever they play, they take the name of that area and play in the colours (maybe even the same replica shirts) of the football team that normally occupies the stadium -I'm assuming most of their fixtures would take place in football stadiums.

So,

Portsmouth Nomads (Blue shirts) v Wigan - Fratton Park
Nottingham Nomads (Red shirts) v Bradford - City Ground
Norwich Nomads - (Yellow shirts) v St Helens - Carrow Road

In effect the Nomads would become the team for everyone who doesn't have a club team in their area. It would work in the same way that people support the rugby union Barbarians. Obviously The Nomads could have their own kit (they would need it for away games) which could be sold a bit like the Barbarians black and white hoops. I'd recommend an all black kit. There would also be a fan club that you could join for £15 per year.

I'm not really sure where the Nomad players would come from, at least in the first season. Perhaps every club should have to donate one player for the Nomad squad - this could be one of their younger players who hadn't quite broken through. The rule would be that you could only play for the Nomads for one season, meaning it would become quite prestigious to be selected. icon_biggrin.gif

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Quote: Father Ted "I don't think there's too much wrong with the structures.
The SL comp is ok but we need to drop the Magic event and run a 26 game season with play offs. If anything the Magic should be transferred to the CCup.
The last 16 should be betwen 14 SL clubs and 2 Champ clubs, eight games over one weekend at either Bramhall Lane or CoM.
At the last 16 stage of the CCup it would fill either of those stadia.
If we are to have better calibre players in vast numbers so we can compete with the Aussies and Kiwis then we have to accept we will have to pay them the going market rate. That means raising the salary cap massively, replacing it with a system like the Aussies are trialing or abolishing restrictions altogether.

What does worry me is the standard of management at the very top, Lewis and Wood. Also at club level. For us at Wigan we suffered 10 years of ownership by Dave Whelan when the club was in decline throughout that period. Ian Lenagan in his third season has taken Wigan to be the best team in the SL and winning the League Championship.
There are other very good CEO's like McManus at Saints, Moran at Warrington and the crew running HKR are doing a fantastic phoenix like job at Craven Park.

Those I mentioned above have made it happen at their clubs. The rest just let it happen. They pick up their SKY money to run a full time club and hope something will happen to make them competitive. They all vote in the salary cap as it restricts the progressive clubs in becoming stronger with better players and squads.
Salford, Cas & Wakey have strugggled to survive, Leeds and Hull are very wealthy but going nowhere with the useless people they have in charge. Catalans, Crusaders & Quins are all having problems in their dev areas.
Although these separate problems have been identified it needs better calibre people running most of those clubs, especially in the "heartlands", if the game is to thrive.

For me the problem is a management one. Better calibre execs and owners bringing a more professional attitude to their clubs and into Red Hall. We need execs with a proven track record in business and a very keen interest in Rugby League.
Wigan, Saints, Warrington and HKR have done it and until the other clubs bring in owners and investors of the same ilk then the majority of clubs will struggle. So will SL and so will British Rugby League.'"


Total bollox , if you dont even know who exactly McManus and Moran even are at their clubs , let alone HKR running at losses of at least 500 K per season you really dont understand the problems , let alone the lunatic assumption that raising the salary cap would be a good idea when 80 % of clubs cant even afford to break even with the level it currently is at icon_rolleyes.gif

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Start off with kids rugby. It should be played in summer to try and attract more kids to play the game as obviously kids would rather play sport in warm weather rather than in the middle of the freezing winter. A scoring system should be devised to encourage teams to play proper attacking rugby rather than just give the ball to the biggest kid and let him run over everybody all the time. Also coaches should be encouraged to rotate who plays in the key positions (half backs, full back, hooker etc) to allow every kid to gain experience of these positions, and those who over a period of time show the most aptitude for these positions should then get specialist coaching.

There should be salary cap concessions for players who come up through the ranks and into the first team of pro clubs and for each of these players that go on to play for England clubs should be paid a bonus. All England players, whether it's the full national side or academy should regularly meet up throughout the year go through their attacking/defense patterns and tactics for the end of year internationals, so when it is time the players will know what to do off by heart.

I would keep Super League at fourteen clubs, but bring back the five team playoffs which would hopefully increase the intensity throughout the season as teams wouldn't be able to afford to lose as many games as they can now. I would give the Magic Weekend a chance to develop into a big event to start the season with, but if after five years it still hasn't really taken off then I would use it for the quarter finals of the challenge cup. The playoffs should be marketed to death, with the view that 20,000+ paying £10 would look better than 10,000+ paying £20. Where possible games will be taken to football grounds that can hold over 20,000. I would even have Hull KR playing their home playoff games at the KC because of the scope for bigger crowds.

A live Super League game would be broadcast on terrestrial TV each week and have the regular season and playoffs as different packages. The Grand Final would be shown on the saturday night in full on terrestrial TV.

The championship should be split into east and west divisions with eight teams in each one and each team playing the teams in their division twice and from the other division once. The top four would playoff to determine the division winners who would then play each other in the Grand Final.

The challenge cup would be moved back to the beginning of the year with the final in May, as IMO August should be about the race for the playoffs and having the CC final there is a distraction.

When the licenses are announced clubs from the championship who win a license will be given a year to put together a competitive team, rather than go into SL the following year and having to spend the off season scrambling around trying to put a team together.

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-Bring back P&R.
-Cap the overseas players down to three for every team.
-No Dual Registration
-Expansion can only be a god thing, but it has to be done correctly. Needs to be done slowly while making sure the current Leagues and Team are in a good financial situation and drawing crowds. No automatic promotion or introduction into Super League.
-Someway that could create a draft like in the NFL, teams have to bring new players through and create future talent.
-Yorkshire V Lancashire, much more emphasis surrounding that. 3 matches like they have in the SOO.

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Quote: dally messenger "the RFL is doing all it can.

maurice lindsay turned the game around, one that had been left to rot for 30 years

lewis is the man who will finish the job off

P&R kept the game back, as did clubs stuck in their ways refusing to change

franchising will basically fix all the games problems and end up with a competitionn as dynamic and healthy as the nrl

SL clubs that cant improve will be kicked out and replaced by champ. clubs that rise to the challenge

survival of the fittest.'"


I've been away for a few days and needed a laugh

Thank you.

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