Don't hit your targets, don't get your funding: www.loverugbyleague.com/news_174 ... g-cut.html Sport England aren't going to put funding into a sport that seemingly fewer people are interested in playing.

Don't hit your targets, don't get your funding: www.loverugbyleague.com/news_174 ... g-cut.html Sport England aren't going to put funding into a sport that seemingly fewer people are interested in playing.

Quote bramleyrhino="bramleyrhino"Don't hit your targets, don't get your funding: www.loverugbyleague.com/news_174 ... g-cut.html Sport England aren't going to put funding into a sport that seemingly fewer people are interested in playing.'" Rugby league grass roots is on its arris. No one is interested in playing it. Something needs to be done. Its easy to blame it on todays culture of facebook and playstations, that kids would rather sit at home, but rugby union is absolutely booming at grass roots so we cant use that excuse. I dont have the answer though. Regards King James

Quote bramleyrhino="bramleyrhino"Don't hit your targets, don't get your funding: www.loverugbyleague.com/news_174 ... g-cut.html Sport England aren't going to put funding into a sport that seemingly fewer people are interested in playing.'" Rugby league grass roots is on its arris. No one is interested in playing it. Something needs to be done. Its easy to blame it on todays culture of facebook and playstations, that kids would rather sit at home, but rugby union is absolutely booming at grass roots so we cant use that excuse. I dont have the answer though. Regards King James

Align the amateur seasons again, playing amateur rugby is hard now, especially as there is a winter season and a summer season, there arent enough players for both seasons so people are losing interest in one or the other as games are cancelled, less team in the division etc.

Also add to that the absolute tooth-pulling exercise of funding and running junior teams - with a league structure that seems hellbent on preventing rather than enabling kids to get on the field. And that's entirely aside from the angry dad culture that permeates some clubs - making them singularly unattractive to many families who might otherwise support their kids involvement.

Well that's a first

There are more hoops to jump through, looking at the Sport England Governance requirements for individual ruling bodies to maximise your funding.
Diversity, both at board level and throughout the organisation.
Increased transparency & accountability.
Avoiding/minimising conflicts of interest.
Safety.
Corruption - ie Working with WADA, also betting.

I think the RFL scores well on some of those things, but needs major changes to fulfil others...

A competitive, regular International calendar, with England players on central contracts.
A large geographical footprint at elite (Superleague) level.
Massive increases in participation at all ages and abilities.
A clear strategy about how they want to grow the sport.

None of which RL has.

Netball is being played at larger venues than ever before, is in the process of moving from amateur to semi pro/professional and televised across Sky and the BBC.

There's an awful lot our governing body can learn from what Netball have done/are doing.

It's no longer a game played by schoolgirls on a playground basically.

Quote tigersteve="tigersteve"Align the amateur seasons again, playing amateur rugby is hard now, especially as there is a winter season and a summer season, there arent enough players for both seasons so people are losing interest in one or the other as games are cancelled, less team in the division etc.'" www.rugby-league.com/article/393 ... -confirmed

Quote tigersteve="tigersteve"Align the amateur seasons again, playing amateur rugby is hard now, especially as there is a winter season and a summer season, there arent enough players for both seasons so people are losing interest in one or the other as games are cancelled, less team in the division etc.'" www.rugby-league.com/article/393 ... -confirmed

Nottingham Outlaws now playing in the Yorkshire league?

Yes we do need to find our ' 20/twenty cricket ' or our ' 7 s Rugby ' , but when you do that you stop being RL , our sport has a basic fundamental problem , it is too tough , so how do you change that mindset ?

Plus we have to be careful what we do actually produce , as all too often Union will happily nick it from under our noses as they have tried with ' Tag '

I doubt we will ever be able to draw Sport England funding of significant amounts ever again

That's nothing - we've now got two French, a Welsh and a Canadian team in the English professional/ semi professional leagues!

Usually you do, and usually it's raise the salary cap!