Quote: J. Willard Gibbs "I like the way you claim it's a laughing stock and produce exactly no data to support it.
Here's the thing; RL fans will whine about anything.
The only thing stopping the game is, unfortunately, the fans.'"
I think you are way off the mark here and you are not giving RL fans any respect. Sounds to me "declarations" message is one of concern for the demisation of what was a great game.
The RFL despite some hard working individuals there do not have a clue how to run the game and are quite happy to fall backwards against other sporting bodies.
They are now de-skilling, dumbing down, manipulating etc the game to lower the standard, so that they call it a "competitive superleague".
The RFL won,t be happy until they have the Catalans, Harlequins, Celtic, Toulouse, Gateshead in superleague then they will announce they have expanded the game........the trouble is then we have a superleague with little support but watched by plenty on Sky.....Then we can call it VIRTUAL RUGBY LEAGUE.