Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "The premier competition in this country is the soccer Premier League. As that comp is hardly "about" more than 5 or 6 clubs - in fact, actually less - clearly the number of clubs a comp is "about" cannot be the significant factor you imply. Indeed the Premier League, where such great riches are concentrated, is a 3-4 horse race from the off; then there is a block of second rate clubs, that can't hope to compete with the elite, but scrabble for European spots. Maybe 4 or so.
The rest are just also rans.'"
Comparing rl/sle to English premier league football serves no purpose at all.
There are a million reasons why both sports are completely different, the main one being,football being based round Manchester,Birmingham and London and rl being based round Huddersfield and Batley.
Maybe Scottish football would be a better setup for rl to compare itself to.