If the proposals passed (70%:30%) by the EGM include the sliding scale of the slice of the pie going to the Championship and League 1 (down to zero if the negotiations go badly) then surely the lower leagues need to act.

As I pointed out in a previous post when Championship games were shown on SKY, in 2010 and 2011, they got something like a half of the viewers that Superleague games got so, again roughly, a third of the advertising. Looking at attendances, if the figures on-line are to be believed, the Championship attracted, in 2016, 2017 and 2018, 17.9%, 23.7% and 21.6% of the attendances of Superleague, so roughly a fifth. Half the TV viewers, a fifth of supporters and yet, even in the current deal they get one tenth of the funds that Superleague get and the new deal could see them get ziltch! And apparently a good number of them signed up to this!!

What should happen? In my view there is no need for a breakaway, but the Championship needs to create a body like SLE whose sole purpose is to look after its needs and concerns. This company should be tasked ASAP with discovering if there is an appetite among all sports TV channels for a Championship RL package. If it finds none fine, I guess it has to go along with this nonsense but if there is, then it should negotiate its own deal, any money has to be better than none surely?

Agree , the national RL Championships are born , no Canadian teams , no French [ bless them ] decide who we want and lets go to work

Nah , let the cockneys stay with us , toulouse to go up replacing Salford

then let them get on with it

You must be getting Trinity mixed up with Cas, we've never had any photos taken on a poxy building site but hey cool story bro.

You tell me how many SL teams have built a new stadium with their own money, no help from the Council or funds from developers etc?

Yes, certain teams like Hull KR, Dewsbury & Feath have done an excellent job in building or doing up what they used to have and are to be massively congratulated but on the other hand, they own their stadia we don't. If only we had a football team to jump in with hey.

It was only in 2010 that Trinity chucked about a million at Belle Vue for new roofs and a lick of paint but when all said and done, you can't polish a turd.

You also won't find a Trinity fan that won't admit that several former owners haven't done enough with the money they've been given to improve the ground, but when the owner in 2009/10 lost the ownership of the stadium and sent us into admin where does that leave anyone that takes over, unless they've got about £20m to throw into one and no owner has done that, not even those with that kind of money spare.

ATEOTD the said promise to build one wasn't just for Trinity, it was for the whole of Wakefield, such as the College that was going to use it and it's facilities, which also had other aspects to it such as 2 full-size multi-use pitches, where there are hardly any of in Wakefield full stop for people to us.
But screw it, it's easier to have a crack at Wakefield, rather than the Council or developer who used the goodwill of the Wakefield public to drum up 15k signatures to build on green belt land and give something back to the wider Community and then do fack all for 7 years, just lies. We could go even further back to where the Council was building a Leigh like sports village in Thornes Park but obviously, after a couple of years of talk it fell through and Wakefield moved onto said Newmarket development.

As usual got to love the so-called RL family.