If the RFL stepped in financially now there would be an outcry from certain myopic chairmen and fans such as has never been heard before.

They are reaping what they sewed.......which in this case is a mess.

The debate about London's usefulness in regard to a TV deal may well be coming to a conclusion. £90,000,000 over 5 years was the last deal......given the doubling up that other sports have seen recently, will ESL get £180,000,000 next time out with 11 M62 teams and a small French Outpost?

If anybody broadcaster offers a £180m deal they can have it conditional on there being a London and a Cardiff team (first season at least) if they insist.

Of course they won't whether London are there or not - other sports have more than 1 broadcaster courting them and Sky will merely pay the minimum they can get away with.

I may be just an eternal optimist but has anyone, and I mean the RFL, enquired about taking London back to their roots at Fulham? They had decent attendances for several years, so what would it take to persuade the present owners to let them back into the cottage?

Fulham get relegated perhaps?

That's a real possibility but we should be trying everything we can to save them

The rfl has no money, how are they going to step in financially?

Try to get permission to play at Craven Cottage, change name to Fulham and play in Fulham FC's colours. Show the Fulham owner the press clippings from the day after the first match in 1980 if he wants to feel the potential.

Does anyone see anything wrong with that map/caption?

2 choices. Either change the heading to "Its a National Superleague" or add the Championship/Championship 1 clubs which would then make it far more of a National Game.

Usual SL arrogance ignoring the game outside SL.

Most sports latest TV contract is absolutely nowhere near a 100% increase on their previous one. The last football league one was lower than their previous one, and the last ECB one was thought to be pretty much the same.