Probably no one. 11 to 1 was just for scraping the 8's. The 7 to 5 was "about key relegation issues" which may cover more than just the 8's format, some of those clubs might not even want 1 up 1 down.

Are you sure about that? What if they were the only ones invited to the press conference? What if they didn't have a long enough table and enough chairs to fit supposedly 11 people?

Also you don't get this amount of confuddlery in other sports, just have a look at the professionalism the FA, Premier League and The EFL have shown when they announced they would be meeting to discuss a winter break.

And all the championship clubs also have a say in the future so its not just 11 to 1 is it seen as fev and Halifax have blasted the idea

You are right.
However, they should have been nowhere near the media until the "idea" had been ratified and agreed properly.
Their actions (in going public) are amateurish an disrespectful to the rest of the RL pyramid.

Doesn't take bottle to turn up to a press conference to announce something that as it turns out hasn't actually happened. Takes stupidity.

I doubt Hetherington really cares that much about the Super 8s format. But he does know what it takes to run a small club in the lower leagues and shafting them to try and preserve the status of SL clubs is pretty shady behaviour by club owners who have failed to run their clubs effectively (all of the other 10 UK owners apart from Moran arguably).

That'd be the experience of losing players to union and being humped every time there's a fixture clash with the footy? Plus fighting a losing battle with London despite having perhaps the second-wealthiest backer the sport has seen?

I don't despise the man but I'm unconvinced by his track record.

As an Everton (as well as Saints) season ticket holder I was delighted to see Elstone leave Goodison, but less enthralled to see him get a job high up in RL given the cock ups he'd had his fingerprints all over while at Everton and it seems he's wasted no time at being involved in bungling errors in this sport.

God help Rugby League with this guy fronting it.

Out of interest, what cock ups was he involved in? Genuine question.

So Hetherington didn't let Lee Smith go to RU & then couldn't recognise a crocked player when he returned? Whereas IL sold a player RU for £250k & to NRL for £700k (or whatever the world record fee was) and got them back for £nil/£200k, that's just bad business isn't it? Unconvinced? Really?
As for the second wealthiest backer who so rarely visited the Harlequinns that he perhaps thought he bought shares in the RU side, he never contributed any money to that squad - perhaps thats a lesson in that we shouldn't deal with Scottish based backers anymore. As for us Wigan fans, we have nothing but gratitude for what he has done for our club.

You can just make the strings out on the ones behind them.