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| Quote: Wellsy13 "The idea is to make the 'league' more competitive. More games against more better teams will improve the quality of the players. Too many games against poor teams is a boring spectacle and doesn't prepare you for the intensity needed to play against tougher opposition.
You don't improve quality by making MORE opportunity. That's how you improve quantity. More people fighting for less places improves quality. You HAVE to step up or by left behind.
There needs to be a balance between quantity and quality. The current structure requires too many to be top quality, which leaves us with players competing that just aren't good enough (or good enough yet as they're forced to step up too early). The proposed system (if it is two full time leagues) allows for a streamlining of quality and still a platform for quantity in the full time game.
Because no-one has access to the accounts.
I've offered a simplistic explanation based on the current finances a few pages down.'"
Quality post,quite a lot of it harsh but true
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| Quote: RLBandit "That's exactly right. It's often said that the premiership is boring, but in fact there are very few clubs who have nothing to play for in the structure. The premier league is actually a very good example of a structure that works well given the gap between the top and bottom sides. ( You can argue of course about whether it should be made more equal with salary caps, etc. but *if* you're forced to accept the idea of big clubs and small clubs, then they've got it working well).
The big thing of course is getting into Europe at one end and relegation at the other. Mid-table is actually quite a small place and it's usually very late into the season before any club gets into a 'nothing-to-play-for' situation.
As I've said before I'd like to see something akin to the Champions League ( but sadly I can't see the Aussies being motivated to take part ) to help with the top end, making the top 4 a great target.
( as an aside, at the very least, let's make the WCC game for the top placed regular season side - that would slightly rebalance the league/playoff importance. Only slightly, mind.)'"
As you have brought the premier league, and how it gives clubs 'something to play for' a total of 45 clubs have played in the premier league, 12 have never been relegated, 33 have, at some point been relegated from the premier league.
Of the 33 clubs who have been in the PL, and relegated from it, of those 11 went in to administration one or more times within a few years of relegation, 6 had severe financial difficulties, and 1 doesn’t exist anymore.
But hey, at least they ‘had something to play for’.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "
Of the 33 clubs who have been in the PL, and relegated from it, of those 11 went in to administration one or more times within a few years of relegation, 6 had severe financial difficulties, and 1 doesn’t exist anymore.
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In hindsight, perhaps the directors of such clubs wished they had spent their substantial 'parachute' payments more wisely.
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| Quote: Wellsy13 "The idea is to make the 'league' more competitive. More games against more better teams will improve the quality of the players. Too many games against poor teams is a boring spectacle and doesn't prepare you for the intensity needed to play against tougher opposition.
You don't improve quality by making MORE opportunity. That's how you improve quantity. More people fighting for less places improves quality. You HAVE to step up or by left behind.
There needs to be a balance between quantity and quality. The current structure requires too many to be top quality, which leaves us with players competing that just aren't good enough (or good enough yet as they're forced to step up too early). The proposed system (if it is two full time leagues) allows for a streamlining of quality and still a platform for quantity in the full time game.
Because no-one has access to the accounts.
I've offered a simplistic explanation based on the current finances a few pages down.'"
There is a balance needed, there would always be a balance needed. But what you are proposing is to create a bottleneck, that isn’t needed.
We have only just expanded the league, this drop in quality was always going to happen. It has to happen when we expand the league. The clubs joining cannot have an SL standard production line when they aren’t in SL, and even if they did those youngsters need experience to get up to pace. The question isn’t is there enough players for 14 teams right now, but can there be in the near future. If this country cannot produce 260 SL level players then the problem isn’t the size of the league, it’s the youth development structures and player pathways we have. 260 isnt a lot.
Cutting the size of the leagues is treating a symptom and not the cause,
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| Quote: Wooden Stand "In hindsight, perhaps the directors of such clubs wished they had spent their substantial 'parachute' payments more wisely.'"
Perhaps they wish they hadn’t been relegated at all.
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| Quote: Wooden Stand "Dreamer wrote
I'm not sure why you have quoted my post from the Keighley site on here?
I have not mentioned "full" or "part time" leagues only "full" or "part time" players, no different to how some clubs operate now.
I'm not sure what your point is?
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "
Cutting the size of the leagues is treating a symptom and not the cause
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Look, having a closed shop of the same old teams in Super League is killing rugby league in this country from the top down. People get bored and fed up, visting same old away grounds time after time etc. The number of young athletes who want to go into rugby league is decreasing year-on-year; unless they are one of the lucky few who are invited in by a top Super League club, they are disenchanted.
The proposal for a Super League 1 and Super League 2 with automatic one-up, one-down promotion and relegation is a proposal to reinvigorate the game.
It's a good job, with your views, you are not a director of a rugby league club (or, if you are, that's part of our problem).
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "Perhaps they wish they hadn’t been relegated at all.'"
No. Wrong again. If there had been no automatic promotion and relegation between the leagues, they wouldn't have have had the chance to play in the top division in the first place.
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| Quote: Wooden Stand "Look, having a closed shop of the same old teams in Super League is killing rugby league in this country from the top down. People get bored and fed up, visting same old away grounds time after time etc. '" Ok, so where is your evidence for this? Using either the 4 years of franchising we have had, or from the multitude of other sports around the world which don’t have promotion and relegation please provide us with the evidence that led you to this conclusion. Quote: Wooden Stand "The number of young athletes who want to go into rugby league is decreasing year-on-year; unless they are one of the lucky few who are invited in by a top Super League club, they are disenchanted.'" Is it? more people are playing than before, im not sure why we would assume that less of them would want a career in the game?
Quote: Wooden Stand "The proposal for a Super League 1 and Super League 2 with automatic one-up, one-down promotion and relegation is a proposal to reinvigorate the game.'" No it isnt, its a proposal to take some money from some clubs in SL and give it to some clubs in the championship.
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| Quote: Dreamer "I'm not sure why you have quoted my post from the Keighley site on here?
I have not mentioned "full" or "part time" leagues only "full" or "part time" players, no different to how some clubs operate now.
I'm not sure what your point is?'"
Sorry about that; won't do it again.
I was simply wishing to agree with you 100%.
It was another poster who referred to "full" or "part time" leagues.
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| Quote: Wooden Stand "No. Wrong again. If there had been no automatic promotion and relegation between the leagues, they wouldn't have have had the chance to play in the top division in the first place.'"
Why do you assume that? Some of the clubs in those figures were never promoted to the PL, they were in it at its creation.
And why do you assume that removing automatic relegation means there could be no structure for promotion?
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "Ok, so where is your evidence for this?.'"
Since automatic promotion and relegation between the leagues was abolished by the RFL, the average crowds at clubs in the professional (i.e. non communuty) game have gone down.
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| Quote: Wooden Stand "Sorry about that; won't do it again.
I was simply wishing to agree with you 100%.
It was another poster who referred to "full" or "part time" leagues.'"
Quite alright
It's just that when you pose questions under a quoted post from someone, it looks like you are talking to them.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "Why do you assume that? Some of the clubs in those figures were never promoted to the PL, they were in it at its creation. '"
All the clubs relegated from Soccer's top division since it became the 'Premier League' were promoted to it (even if that was before it was called the Premier League).
Quote: SmokeyTA " And why do you assume that removing automatic relegation means there could be no structure for promotion?'"
Because if a team got promoted each year and nobody ever got relegated, the league would get too big.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "None have that has anything to do with P+R or franchising. P+R doesnt demand that we only have quality business practice, nor does it make it more likely, in fact we saw it encourage and entrench very poor business practices with examples too numerous to mention. Franchising isnt a silver bullet, it was never pretended to be however much the usual suspects are starting their revision of history. Franchising is the platform from which we build. Its the space so clubs can put in place 3/5/10 year plans towards success.'"
There needs to be a happy medium between P&R under the old system (which did promote an unsustainable boom and bust scenario that did the game no good whatsoever) and the current franchise system which in my opinion is only working for a select few.
The main point seem to ignore (apogies if you have elsewhere) to relates the number of SL clubs chasing a salary cap that they cannot afford without third party funding beit Sky or rich benefactor, and even with it are suffering serious financial trauma.
There are too many clubs who can barely open the front door let alone balance the books when relying upon income via first and secondary spend.
How can that be good for anyone?
There is little point them having a 3/5/10 year plan under the current format because the way they are heading there is a grave danger some of them won't be around (in their current format) in 3/5/10 years time if they continue as they are.
It would be fantastic if every club could aim for the highest common denominator but as things stand there isn't enough money or interest in the game to fund that. We dont want to drop to the lowest common demoninator either.
What's needed is a happy medium whereby an 'average to good' sized club (lets say Cas for arguments sake, it could easily be Wakey, HKR, Salford etc) does not have to spend beyond it's means (as they currently are) trying to hang on to the coat tails of an elite 5 or 6 clubs but can at the very least provide a sustainable business platform to grow from.
You may say the current set up provides that. The number of clubs continually struggling to makes ends meet says otherwise, and its a struggle not created by a short term blip either, it's a worrying trend that was always there under P&R but shows no sign of restraint during the current system either.
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