The Championship & League 1 seem to have handed their negotiating over to the RFL lock stock & barrel. SLE have retained their options but let the RFL negotiate for them last time out.

It’s a good question. It has been the RFL. It’s one of those things where I assume that SL saw Elstone having a leading role, but I don’t know what the situation is now. I suspect people better placed than me are uncertain too.

BBC report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/45514544

BBC report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/45514544

Absolutely disgusting

Regards

King James

Hopefully Mr Campbell will tell him that Wakefield can't train at Feath should Wakefield not vote the way he wants........

If the super league get their way I hope and it will be 1 up and 1 down does that mean that say a team in the championship win and they have a crap ground they will still be promoted or do they stick to what it used to be and then what happens

Expect a break-away if things go pear shaped

Quote ColD="ColD"Financial proposals don't look brill for Champ clubs https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm--fH9XsAAFKPy.jpg:large'" When I posted in this thread before I said it was a no brainer for the clubs to pass this through. Having seen these proposals I'm not so sure anymore Basically the SL clubs want full control over the negotiations, but completely refuse to take any less money than current levels despite the outcome of those negotiations? Is that right?

Quote ColD="ColD"Financial proposals don't look brill for Champ clubs https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm--fH9XsAAFKPy.jpg:large'" When I posted in this thread before I said it was a no brainer for the clubs to pass this through. Having seen these proposals I'm not so sure anymore Basically the SL clubs want full control over the negotiations, but completely refuse to take any less money than current levels despite the outcome of those negotiations? Is that right?

It will come down to various issues, but this EGM isn't addressing the biggest one of them all - the appeal of the RL audience to advertisers. That's what Sky cares about, and what determines how much we're worth to them. Not one comment from any of the 11 SL chairmen seems to talk about addressing that issue - in fact, their comments have tended to talk about doing the opposite.

Instead of talking about how we grow and diversify, they seem more interested in fighting over and protecting what is, in the context of modern elite professional sports, a piddling amount of money. And then people wonder why we have a perception issue.

i just cannot possible see why sky would support loop fixture, puts proven that crowds and tv audience drop for loop fixtures, surely sky would want best audience and cameras on full grounds. if they want to attract advertises advertises will want Leeds Wigan 20k crowd saints wigan 25k all playing each other home away, not hull v Huddersfield playing a 3rd time and getting 6-7k a Kc stadium.

What Sky want is content that appeals to hard-to-reach ABC1 audiences in and around major urban centres. How well RL content does that will determine how much we are worth to Sky.

But somehow I can't imagine that's on the agenda at today's meeting, or any other meeting for the foreseeable, given the comments from some club chairman in recent months.

Let's be honest, addressing the actual problems facing this sport sounds too much like hard work.