Quote: SmokeyTA "And the rest worse off for it. We arent going to improve by damaging our best.'"
Not really, the best teams still have the top players and coaches, using the NFL again because the idea is from there - the Patriots, Steelers & Ravens are always good why? Because they're the best run teams with the best coaches & some of the best players in the league.
Just because everyone has the same money it doesn't make the league worse - it makes it better because everyone is somewhat competitive.
Quote: SmokeyTA "As would Castleford. Leeds wouldnt, and St Helens wouldnt, and Wigan and Hull wouldnt. And when these clubs start losing huge amounts because the work they do marketing and selling themselves benefits someone else who isnt spending huge amounts on marketing and selling themselves as much as it does then what do you think will happen? '"
Well, sponsors would stay with individual teams so the best marketing departments etc would still give the teams an edge in revenue but with everything else shared the league would be closer. Wigan, Leeds & Hull might receive less money but Bradford, Cas, Catalan, Huddersfield, Hull KR, London, Salford, Wakefield & Widnes would all benefit - that's 9 teams that would improve under revenue sharing.
Quote: SmokeyTA "Its not a good thing for the NFL Green Bay contribute so little off the field'"
But it is, a lot of NFL like seeing Green Bay do well and they make a lot of money for the league by being so popular despite being a small market team.
At the end of the day; Leeds fans and the like will hate an idea which will even out the league because it might stop them winning every year but at the end of the day they'll still have Hall, Sinfield, McGuire, Peacock, Burrow etc.
Quote: SmokeyTA "Or we spend our time improving the lower sides so that the challenge at the top not because we have fundamentally damaged the businesses of those sides at the top, but because we have improved the businesses of those at the bottom'"
But they wouldn't be fundamentally damaged, they might receive less money in the short term, but as the league grows more sponsors etc will be more interested in a competitive league.