And if Bradford were in SL, just how do you think they would have voted.
You're analogy of walking a mile in another mans shoes is very, very apt and just as it is with the Bulls application in the golden ticket raffle, they wouldn't give a flying one about any other club when they have their noses back in the SL trough and you know it.

This is like arguing over who gets the deckchairs on the Titanic.

I don't begrudge anyone trying to get into the superleague and hope that whoever it is that gets in is given the chance to stay up and avoid all this in 2022.

It still doesn't make cutting everyone but the chosen 12 adrift right though does it? The collective behaviour of the superleague clubs has been short sighted and greedy. Ultimately, it's ended up with them paying a bloke who's never done anything in football 400K/year to deliver a reduced TV deal, falling standards on the pitch and reduced attendances at superleague matches and events (before Covid-19).

Also, what the Bull management choose to do or have done in the past is not down to me or any other fan. You need to disconnect the two. If we are parachuted into SL to get thumped every week, on less money and not get relegated I won't be there to see it. I'm sure lot's of fans will still go and I'm not saying there's anything right or wrong with that just that I won't be one of them. Similarly, if the club goes out of business or ends up in some sort of reduced set up due to the SL clubs failing to get a decent TV deal I won't be watching SL for my Rugby league fix I'll be lost from the game. Again, other people will choose differently but I won't be on my own.

FWIW, there should be some long term strategy for the whole game, something that seems to have been lacking since Richard Lewis departed.
As a sport we keep on looking for a "moonshot", including a drive to get Bradford back in SL all too soon.
There is no plan, not for SL, not for The Championship and most importantly for the grass roots game.
"We" would rather chare the dream in N .America than spend more time and effort enticing kids into the game.

IF SL have cut the lower leagues adrifit, in terms of passing some of the Sky monies down the line, then, there should at least be the chance of them (Championship and League 1) trying to do some kind of independent deal.

Or life boats.

Waste of time? They have the best fixtures.

No I mean BT had chance to take Scottish football exclusively from sky and after all the talk and hype they came in with lowball offer.

The bonus for BT sport is they can use FTA as bargaining tool. Shame we have so many tools who can’t see that in RL. Now let’s see what happens with zero funding to Champ/L1..

I dunno mate. The last deal was the biggest yet supposedly to see off BT. Robert Elstone probably had no chance of beating that one, what power or influence has the man got?

I'd suggest he was engaged to minimise the fall in commercial income. Wether he's done that with this deal I dunno?

Well the plan that was put forward by Lenegan a year or more back, and all clubs voted on it, was for going to two divisions, therefore the "Championship" was not going to the wall, it was going to be "Superleague 2" The plan was 10 clubs in Superleague 1, and 10 clubs in Superleague 2. At that time 20 votes would have carried it but mark Sawyer and Stephen Ball IIRC didn't "play ball" and the idea fell through.

So if the SL clubs are going to revisit their plan this time holding all the purse strings and power, then I guess the top Championship clubs will align with Superleague and we may see something like.....

Superleague one.........Superleague 2

Wigan........................ York
Wire.......................... Widnes
Saints........................ Featherstone
Leeds........................ Halifax
Hull.............................Dewsbury
HKR............................London
Cas.............................Newcastle
Wakefield...................Batley
Huddersfield...............Barrow
Bradford......................dunno
Leigh...........................dunno
Salford.........................dunno

Neither my choice of format nor my selections and nor my ommissions.This is for illustrative purposes of what the Lenegan model may look like taking into account he said 2022 would be a [i"return to an English league"[/i given he proposed [i"two divisions"[/i and given he effectively proposed [ia cull of small championship clubs[/i.

If anyone has any serious problems with this sort of plan and wish to vent their anger, I suppose you can write to him at Superleague (Europe) Ltd,

wow, the manure is strong so early in the day...

As a Rovers fan, we was out the top flight for 13 years. We finally earn our promotion and the following season managed to stay up. We suffered a relegation when we never even finished bottom of the league. We got another promotion and managed to stay up again. We are hardly 'chosen' we have worked hard for our place in the league over many years.