Quote: LifeLongHKRFan "Quite right, I hope he does carry on subsidizing them because if he didn't then we would be in a mess unless we can get a 10k average. My point is that you either need a 10k average or someone to back the club. Widnes have a backer, London also have a backer. Has any of the teams currently in the Championship have a wealthy backer to fund them in Superleague?
Franchising is not going to go away and I don't believe it should. Maybe there is a better way of doing it but P&R is not the answer.
The only reason Hull KR stayed up for that year was because there was a team even worse than us in the Superleague. Hull KR were the exception and most other teams who have been promoted during the P&R days went straight back down and it would almost certainly be the case if we brought P&R back.'"
But the licencing system is snapshot of the League as it existed at the time it was introduced - more or less. If that snapshot had been taken before Hull KR, had been promoted they'd be marooned in the championship trying to maintain the same standard for three years. As for promoted teams going straight back down, what about Wakefield, Huddersfield, Cas, Hull FC, Salford - all promoted in the P&R era -all still there. The only promoted team to bring P&R into disrepute IMO are Celtic Crusaders/Crusaders with their inelligible players and last minute withdrawal last season.
When under P&R did we have a player suing the RFL because of a failed transfer?