If they develop and improve then they become first-tier nations, obviously. If I was playing for, for example, Scotland, I'd rather routinely be playing and competing with Wales/Ireland/France/Fiji than getting scuttleypooped by 80-0 by Australia.
If I progress as a player, I can still play for GB and perhaps only get beaten by 10 or 20 by the Kangaroos. Huzzah!
We have to deal with the World as it is - '2nd tier' is maybe impolitic though, I admit, how about 'developing nations'? that sounds progressive.

Who cares what Lennegan thinks-He is only one of many chairman.

Some SL chairmen have said the there should only be twelve teams in the league. None of them though have volunteered their club into the Championship.

That is what they are

Correct , nobody is interested in 2 nd tier sport , be that club or country

the ones with all the gob should be the first to go, never mind I'm alright and sod the rest, i have never eared so much rubbish some of the CEOs come out with, so long as there club wont be going down its alright what are they wanting to happen to the players who's club go down, do they want all the players contracts tearing up so the can cherry pick the best talent & then tell them there doing them a favor

Lenagan will push agendas that will benefit him. He's a businessman first (and probably last). Simle.

Simle indeed.

It's not like he's Wigan born & bred is it...oh.

How dare someone look to benefit themselves. How very dare they.

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It was meant to be 'simple' but someone took the 'p'.

I don't blame him trying to benefit himself, most of us would do the same. What I do have a problem is with him acting like a super-fan all the time and indeed hiding behind his "Wigan born & bred" persona.

intresting to hear tonight at a fans forum held by hull fc, wigan and leeds were strong advocates not to raise the salary cap!

pearson also stated that the previous regime in charge should be embarrassed with the last sponsorship deal with stobart with the widnes owner/chairman strongly to blame for a very poor decision costing clubs valuble income, even went ot say that the vikings chairman could've been mistaken as a representative of stobart!

So Pearson portraying himself as über RL Chairman once again despite being in the game for 5 mins. He seems quite adept at slagging off other clubs and their board members. Which is a strange thing to do if he actually wants to change things within SL. He's taken on Hetherington and lost, now he's trying O'Connor. My money is on the bald one with the lorries, not the loudmouth pillock.

As for the salary cap, I'm not suprised Wigan & Leeds don't want it raising. They've both built successful clubs that can manage to run as a business. The last thing Leeds and Wigan want is rising costs.

Has there been any official comment about the matters that were discussed at the meeting (apart from the comments by Pearson). If so, is there a plan or, are we planning the future be jarking our respective knees ?

Halifax Chairman recons P & R back on and a reduction to 12 in Superleague :- www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... -1-5108577

Halifax Chairman recons P & R back on and a reduction to 12 in Superleague :- www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... -1-5108577

If he's right, there are likely to be 3 casualties from SL in 2015 (possibly 4 if Toulouse are added)
Sqeaky bum time again at the lower end of SL.

....and no way in for Fev, Fax , Leigh and Sheffield for some considerable time.