The parallels with the truly gut-wrenching times in the past years of following Bradford are clear. It's the fans putting their hands in their pocket to try and rectify the mess they didn't cause which I find upsetting for any club that goes through it. It's also something people need to think about when they freely use the abstract "they deserve it" line for any club docked points or are going through the mire. I know for a fact not a single person who posts on here deserves that kind of thing for spending their time and money following the clubs they love and we'd do well to remember it.

We are too tiny a sport to embrace the same parochialism as football. I lament any and every club going through bad times. As a Bradford fan, do I have a sort of primal pleasure from seeing Fax, Giants and Leeds lose, well yeah I'm not a weirdo. But do I want the club and the fans to actually suffer absolutely not. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I have a naive liberal snowflake wish that we'd look out for one another in our tidgy little sport,and we'd be stronger for it. But it doesn't happen.

If we expand to 16 teams the sky money will be diluted and clubs will go bust

Only if you assume a zero-growth model, which is the last thing we should be assuming.

I don't think that we should expand to 16 (or indeed 14 for that matter) because I don't think we have enough talent to maintain the quality of competition, but "clubs will go bust because they aren't increasing revenue from other income streams" is the last reason why we shouldn't do something to improve the sport.

What do we think will happen when the Sky money is lowered next contract time?

Then I'd give Sky Sports Arena a wide berth, tonight.

That's the biggest issue for me, there's not enough talent in today's competition, compared with say 5 years ago, and it's light years away from 10 years ago.
If we get any increase on the previous TV deal it will be a huge relief, as they're (and the customer sat in front of their TV sets) paying for an inferior product.