Well based on the figures, the deal we got last time in which most of us thought we hadn't pushed enough, seems to be the peak of our expectations next time round - are things really that bad

Cheers...loving your signature !

FL has a lot of improving to do, and not enough money to attract anyone who isn't doing it for the love of the game (or themselves). Unfortunately the clubs are worse run than the RFL and giving them more power would just hasten the ultimate demise of pro-RL in the UK.

Clubs should have to fulfil more criteria to improve the game as a whole to get their central funding, without a full youth programme and contributing skills/players/time to central events they should get nothing.

The new structure is about splitting up a shrinking pot of money with no view as to how to protect or increase tv funding going forward and no strategy to look at increasing revenue streams from elsewhere, I really do despair that it looks so likely to be forced through.

Well done Eric Pollard and McAnus.

Championship and C1 should find a reasonable/cheap deal from BBC/C4/ Amazon etc and tell SL to get stuffed.

It’s possible they couldn’t give it away. It’d be like trying to sell minor counties cricket... very, roughly.

Hopefully the numbers have been cherry-picked to show how much of the risk of a reduced TV deal the lower league clubs are being asked to carry, and the possibility of improved deal is at least being contemplated. Maybe the plan is that the Championship clubs get a much better deal above £40 million, although they might wonder where the incentive is then for SL to negotiate hard.

If those numbers are right (and I wouldn’t completely take them at face value yet), I don’t think there’s much incentive for those outside of SL to play ball. It’d look more like a choice of sticks rather than anything resembling an orange root vegetable.

I bet sky are looking at our game realising how weak it currently is... Robert Elstone will be laughed out of the negotiations if he wants anything near the current level. The issues are much deeper than structure! Games on the bare bones of it's Ar$e

Indeed, the game has been on its derriere for some time.

I think that the Proposers have put forward a ‘disruptive’ proposal to shake ALL of the clubs out of their complacency. It is clear that the time until the next TV deal has to be used to put get the game in a healthier state than it is. Obviously the SL clubs at the core of this believe that they can’t wait until the next TV cycle in the hope of screwing SKY to provide more income to fund a game that has, at best, stagnated.

Micheal Carter on Twitter is threatening to hold back the development of Wakefield’s young players, by stopping dual reg next year, if a certain Championship club doesn’t vote the way he wants. Classy.

This is what we have to put up with from the Wakefield club.

No he isn't <edit, MR>.

RFL, Champ and league 1 still share 7.75m it’s a deal.

He is. Look further down the threa he says it in a fit of peak. He’s also suggested if GeV don’t do as they are told he won’t be paying them rent to train at their ground. Back to thrones park dodging the dog then.

You might be right in also thinking Warrington have told Rochdale they’re taking their bat and ball home if they don’t do as they are told.

Also someone has told Newcastle that they’ll take the magic weekend elsewhere (as the night before they get their biggest gate of the season) if they aren’t good little boys and vote properly.

Which is brilliant because one of the most vocal chairmen this week runs a club that’s only here because they raped that club previously.

Interesting day ahead, you never know what youre going to get with an RL restructure!

Who actually negotiates the deal, the RFL is SL