If they think a breakaway league of 6 or 7 clubs can continue to attract the crowds, Sky coverage and viewer ratings and fill Old Trafford each year , all this minus the Wembley Final and any money from the BBC, then good luck to them.

As to the RFL, if they break away, I say what don't kill you makes you stronger and i don't think the loss of the magnificient 7 will kill the rest of the game. seriously harm it maybe but not kill it

Dead right. What worries me about some RL fans and officials is the hatred of the success IL has achieved. There seems to be a default viewpoint that being better at something than others is a terrible thing. I also cannot understand the feeling of entitlement that feeds the view that well organised, successful clubs who put the effort in should then give the fruits of their labour to those who are failures....

Ian Lenagan has twice the IQ of anyone at the RFL headquarters.
Ian Lenagan is a more succcessful businessman outside the sport than anyone else in rugby league.
Ian Lenagan is the most fan oriented and fan sensitive chairman of a club whom I have ever seen. That was as true at London as it is at Wigan.

The owner of Doncaster might do well to think about how he might recruit a few thousand more fans to his club's games before he goes out to criticise one of the most succesful club chairmen that rugby league has ever known.

Sounds like the game could do without the likes of 'Damo-Leeds' so it can move forward and prosper. Too may eeeeayeup types and introverted lot in RL that keeps the game confined to ex-mining towns and large social housing suburbs/slums.

If you can't be successful at the biggest, most successful club the game has ever known for the last 100 years then you aren't very good at business.

A better test would be for the said Chairman to take over Doncaster or Sheffield or even Castleford. If he did that and made any one of them as successful or even half as successful as Wigan then I would second the accolades you are bestowing upon him.

Being a successful chairman at Wigan does not really have much degree of difficulty to it.

It's kind of like being Michael jordan's coach.

You do know the state we were in with this guy took over dont you?

You do know we were making big losses? Had umpteen foreign players? Weren't promoting youth players? Were breaking the salary cap?

All that on top of winning nowt.

Proper easy job.

It's the support of these people who you so denigate that has sustained and nourished this game since it's inception both here and in Australia.

The fact that the demographics of the game's supporters are changing somewhat to a more affluent social strata is proabably due to the sons, daughters and grandchildren of these original supporters who have become upwardly mobile due to their own efforts and the support of their parents and are taking their sporting preferences with them as they rise.

As a descendant of the denizens of a former mining town which was destroyed by the Grantham grocer who has ammassed a certain wealth, I would rather live there than Tunbridge Wells. The qualities of decency and moral fairness are so much better.

Given that you had a ready made supporter base around 14,000 and were gifted a brand new stadium by DW and are located in the middle of the most prolific group of amateur teams in the country, he was hardly starting from the depths of where, let's say, Featherstone, have had to build from.

Not easy, but one of the easier, clubs to lead to success than most. As I said, let me see him hand over Wigan to someone and take on a struggling team and transform it to a top class organisation and i will eat humble pie and bow to his leadership acumen.

It seems this debate is now the refuge of those who were hoping and praying for the down fall of the WC.

Now that's in the clear, it seems hoping and praying for the downfall of RL in the UK is the next best option.

The main sabateur of the WC would appear to be the said Lenagan with his ill timed rebellion getting the headlines just as the WC ticket sales and marketing and media efforts are getting into full flow.