Quote: Judder Man "I,m thinking the other way round its the lower clubs that are holding back the growth of Superleague, those clubs have vetoed some of the expansion ideas and instead of the standard of the lower clubs coming up to the top 4 clubs the game is stagnated .
Saints will never sell out their ground because their is very little away support, Huddersfield Giants 4th in the league only brought 95 fans last night and most of the other lower clubs are similar 100 to 200 fans and that includes Leeds as well. There is also the fact that SKY can show games on Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon and then you have C4 joining the party.'"
Maybe it is just a bit of a broken sporting ecosystem. I don’t think one set of clubs is more to blame than any other.
It does feel like a bit of dead end though. I mean there’s Leeds fans being newly bored, that’s quite funny. But it is finding interest in other people’s boredom!
The big 5 European football leagues are dominated by small numbers of clubs. Bayern Munich have won the last 10 German titles, Juventus won Serie A 9 times in a row before Inter an Milan won one a piece, PSG have won 8 of the last 10 in France. Atletico Madrid have only twice broken the Real Madrid-Barcelona duopoly since Valencia were Spanish Champions in 2004. So it isn’t just us.
I’m sure those champion clubs have good cultures too, and tell fans of Stuttgart, Montpellier, Empoli and Celta Vigo all about it, and how they should be doing more to make their leagues more competitive. I’m sure they appreciate the advice just as much as I do that of fans of Wigan and St Helens.