In the middle of this season, despite the continuing threat of top players leaving our game, I was actually looking forward to the rest of the year, not least of all, the World Cup. But in the last few weeks I've seen the usual suspects bleat about not having any money (AGAIN); the Man of Steel (from Dewsbury, I think) say he'd rather play for Scotland than England; those that were chosen to represent their country stumble to a loss against mighty Italy; players who agreed on an alcohol ban going on a night out with the attitude "yep, but it doesn't mean me", culminating with a senior player ejected from the squad; and now, to top it all off, chairmen from 6 of the clubs in SL walk out of a meeting which was supposed to go most of the way to securing a positive future for the game. There has to be something very serious for the clubs listed to not want restructuring to proceed.

Can someone please tell me why Players/Chairmen/RFL all seem hell bent on destroying what's left of the game? Have they bought shares in the RFU?

And if they want, I'm sure I'm not the only one available to bang heads their together over the next 48 hours!

I'm serious Wigg'n people need to stop being so self ed and think of the game as a whole rather than themselves, their own club or protecting their own reputations. RL people need to adopt a radical new approach of promoting the game first rather than thinking of number one all the time and trying to save face or gain one upmanship. For instance the reaction of some people on RL fans if a club is in financial difficulties or goes into admin is celebrated.

careful buddy...you'll have Speccy and the "vast majority" of posters asking the mods to ban you for posts like that....You're not allowed be critical of the sport...it's about hidden agendas and objectives apparently

But do you not think that's what the 6 clubs are trying to do?

We all wear rose tinted glasses when it comes to our clubs, but as someone who has listened to just about every Adam Pearson interview and press release since he bought Hull I genuinely believe that he has the game at heart and wants to do right by the game as a whole. At the forum tonight he talked very positively about the World Cup and the benefits it can bring to the sport, and he also spoke positively about the game as a whole and said how the trouble we are in is very easily rectifiable. However there needs to be some changes made and the clubs have to stick up for themselves and push for better tv deals, sponsorship deals etc.

Walking out might not be the best way around it but at least they have made their point and hopefully things will happen.

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Enjoy the WC.

My post wasn't directed solely at the representatives of those 6 clubs. I think it's a much wider problem in british RL and I believe it's existed for decades. It's just a real shame that it's come to this on the eve of the World Cup, creating a divide within british rugby league when our sport needs to show unity and solidarity.