If the RFL had run the game properly from the start then this would not be an issue. The reason the teams below super league are part time and have small crowds is because of the fact there is no dream, nothing to aspire to, yes you can win the respective league that you are in but what happens then? The reward for the clubs below Super league is little; the reward for the fans is far smaller. The fans want bragging rights. How do you attract new support for your club when
A) It gets limited publicity from the governing body,
B) You have your games shown on a channel that less than half the population of the country get (this is yet another great deal done by the people in charge) the clubs get nothing from the deal and actually harms the top clubs bid for a licence. The top games that would pull the interest of the neutral can be seen on the TV they can sit in a sports club/ bar and watch for free have a few beers. The games are switched to a Thursday night and many of the diehard fans cannot go.
If they are going to give it away give it away to a terrestrial TV channel that gets into every home then you have a chance of better sponsorship.
c) Super league clubs sell season tickets at a stupidly low price that they cannot afford causing the floating supporter to buy their season ticket because it has paid for itself even if they only go to two games. Then money that could have been used to promote the lower division clubs is spent buying a hole in the ground (iconic ground MY A (Jim Royal moment) ) and keeping a team that has bought its iconic status with money it did not have, running.
d) No promotion or relegation. Nothing to get excited about or biting nails time, talking about the connotations that may get you promoted or relegated, the excitement the disappointment until you reach the semifinals or the final of the playoffs there is none of that so people do not get attached to the club like the supporters that have been around for years and their family’s

it is because of a lack of promotion and relegation that the gap is as big as you say, although I think the top 5 championship clubs could compete with the bottom 5 Super League clubs with only a few adjustments needed.
Rugby league is top heavy too much money, time and promotion is put into super league and will fall over if something is not done about it. Without the lower leagues Super league will struggle.

"Who would ever enter the empty ground and not know where they were?"


SALFORD !

What always makes me laugh is that these lower league club fans often spend a lot of there time and energy on here venting there anger. Whilst they would be more productive if they went to there clubs and tried to do something about it. I often see Leigh fans (mainly) and to some extent Halifax fans venting anger towards Super League. You never see many Fev Rovers fans doing that and look what they are achieving at there club.

Concentrate on getting your own club's run properly then you might be in a position to criticize your exclusion. P & R was killing Rugby League and destroying the lower leagues.

What a load of ivory tower ignorant rubbish. You've no idea have you?

What on earth do you expect fans of lower clubs to do exactly? If you were in their position you'd be doing the exact same damn thing so be thankful you were lucky enough to support a club with more stroke and stop judging.

That'll be mostly me then, well funnily enough after investing tens of thousands of pounds into ' my ' club and still the other directors not listening, I had to resign ( basically to save what little money I had left ) , I have since then tried to ' educate ' both my club and others in how to increase income specifically in the light of a Franchised upper tier, but to no avail, it is a toss up who is the most incompetant, the highly paid experts at Red Hall, or the club owners

However it is the RFL s resonsibility to provide the right sort of enviroment for all clubs to prosper, this they have miserably failed at , so until they do manage to do that, I'll continue to criticise them

As for the lack of Fev fans complaining, try totalrl.com, thats were they post , only 3/4 come on here, and they tend to stick to the Leigh and Fax boards