I'm just reading League Express and it seems that the Super League clubs are not happy.

Sadler writes that there is a meeting today between the 'majority' of Super League clubs in Huddersfield. They are not happy with how they are being 'bounced into a new structure'.

The SL clubs are also unhappy that their competition is ran by the RFL and not by themselves. They believe that the RFL are unable to exploit the full commercial potential of SL and they want a SL CEO who is accountable to the clubs and to the RFL.

An interesting article...I'm sure we will hear more soon.

There is apparently more detail in league weekly

About bleedin' time. Don't care if it's forced by the SL clubs, or some other grouping, but the sooner they find a way to sack this lot, the better: www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/about_t ... _directors If you can't take one look at that photo and understand that we have a problem, then there's no hope for you.

About bleedin' time. Don't care if it's forced by the SL clubs, or some other grouping, but the sooner they find a way to sack this lot, the better: www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/about_t ... _directors If you can't take one look at that photo and understand that we have a problem, then there's no hope for you.

I thought the clubs had voted for the new structure

Who exactly are the "Majority" of SL clubs and why is it not all of them.Is this a sign of a split between the clubs themselves.Interesting times.

The unhappy SL clubs (according to Mr Lenagan in League Weekly) are...

Wigan
Warrington
Huddersfield
Hull
Hull KR
St Helens
London

That's currently 7 out of 14.

more importantly, its 6 of those who finished in the top 8, ...looks like the "dog" is fed up of being "wagged" by the tail....

Rumour has it that they are going to vote against the RFLs plans at the EGM on Wednesday.
Chaos Awaits.

I Don't think it matters does it? Doesn't the RFL have an overriding vote?

London? I'd take us out!

Indeed, though I do wonder what the Hetherington agenda is?

Very conspicuous by his clubs absence from that list!

I sense a parting of the ways similar to when the EPL split from the football league.

I could - and have - ranted many a time about specifics concerning the RFL. However, my opinion is that marketing/profile (in the broadest sense) of the game is essentially the most significant failing. A pretty significant part of marketing is the image you present to outside world. Image matters, and that photo is a great (if - in isolation - insignificant) example of how not to present yourselves if you're trying to give the impression of a dynamic team with whom your brand (should you wish to sponsor the sport) would be in great hands. I'm not suggesting that the individuals need to be replaced by twenty-somethings straight from the cast of Friends - an image expert would be able to do wonders with the cast as it stands. However, it seems highly unlikely that the RFL would recognize any image issue in that picture (you obviously don't).

It does indeed seem petty to care about things like that. In an ideal world - it really shouldn't matter one jot what the heck they look like in a photo. Seriously, it shouldn't, I totally agree. But we live in a world where if you want to be commercially successful, you need real expertise in image and brand management. Before you say "so are you such a big expert then?", the answer is quite obviously "no". But even I can see that photo screams "small time". Of course it's not about one insignificant photo - if the game was being marketed well, one slightly dodgy photo wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to anything - the point is that the game is not being marketed well, and images like that give (me at a least) an insight into how much or little they understand about image and branding.

Judging by Sinfield's opinion rlHERErl, I'm guessing the Leeds club are happy with the RFL restructuring proposals.