The problem with Huddersfield is that as a visual spectacle for the sport, they are a huge negative with their empty stadium and, with it, the non existent atmosphere.

To be honest, they aren't the only ones with the issue of a ground that's too big for their means, but they are the one who seems to stand out, fairly or unfairly.

Back up your statement about Huddersfield local lads in their team please

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We won lost and won again our SL place as did the other 11 teams in SL including Toronto.

However we didn’t pull out of SL have fulfilled our fixtures and if we finish bottom next year rightly we will get relegated the current way to lose any teams SL place.

Currently the Daily Mirror are reporting that any Toronto takeover is subject to and viable only with full RL membership plus their full 1/12th share of the TV money.

So the mega NATV deal is well and truly gone? No player development and expensive trans Atlantic flights. Expansion my ass !!

Ironically Huddersfield is one of the few clubs who could currently get their 4,000 season ticket holders socially distanced in their ground !!!

It really is haunting you the fact we played and beat you to keep you in the championship, you had the chance but they blew it, since then it's got worse for you and your very lucky to even have a club.

Don't forget they was the rules at the time not us setting them but the RFL had they played to the rules of straight promotion and relegation yes we would of been down but it would of be Leigh coming up and Bradford would of missed again

You need to get over the loss

This is a bigger pile of crap than your last post
Bradford couldn't run a raffle without somebody nicking the proceeds and don't have a ground of their own so not sure what the obvious reasons are.
London were relegated simply because they weren't good enough, but by your reckoning surely Toulouse should be in front of them expansion wise.
Leigh tried and failed twice, but by your obscure criteria should be at the top of the pile but replacing who exactly?
York is a town that thinks it's a city, only thing going for them is a decent ground, and because Newcastle have a wealthy owner does that qualify them to jump up two divisions.
As for Fev being too Wakey-esque seems a bit of bitterness in there somewhere.

I don't think that's the case.

The exceptionally high deal last time was to see off BT Sport. The new deal will be lower this time as BT sport aren't interested but it will still be a good deal.

When Lenegan spoke of it he said the deal would be split differently. If it isn't any more than £150M then the Championships won't be getting anything.

It wasn't EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH.

Koukash made that plain immediately.Lenagan stated his uncertainty after the deal was completed.

Lenagan got Elstone employed,on a deal,that he got a better broadcast deal.

That now seems certain to fail.

Agreed on the first part, 'value' is not just money, it it the intrinsic 'value' that the clubs that haven't won anything, still bring to the game. As an example Wakefield: they have won anything, but do produce 'some' decent young players (Johnstone), but also they do some excellent work in Wakefield and beyond with their Foundation. They even stretch as far as Bassetlaw (Worksop) with their support of a very good junior club with there endeavours. That work should be applauded. The value they bring to the game through that effort is incalculable.

However, they could do that as a part time club in the Championship and allow other clubs that bring more to the game, in terms of attendances, production of more top level players and of course finances, to improve SL. I am not picking on Wakefield, only using them as an example.

None of this is perfect, but we must assess where the game is going over the next five years, and we must do that NOW.

I know that some like to see shiny plastic seats but, we should be selling the product and not the "wrapper".
For example, the Cas v Saints play off game a few years ago was one of the most dramatic and compelling games of recent years.
NOBODY was looking at the lack of seating or the quality of the facilities.

RL scored a HUGE own goal by setting it's mythical 10,000 attendance figure, something which only 4/5 clubs can achieve.
It's absolutely right to try and push up standards on/off the field but, watching a decent game in a poor ground, beats watching a poor game in a half (or worse) empty ground all day long.

Strangely, Toronto's ground with it's psychedelic multisport pitch markings, was as bad as it gets but, "we" were pretty keen to get them into the comp.

It's utter nonsense to suggest that clubs like Trinity hold back the TV deal.
Do you really think that if they were playing out of a brand new 12,000 seater stadium, there would be, even one more penny on the TV deal

Of course everything looks better when the games are played to "sell out" crowds, although this seems very unlikely in the foreseeable future, for any club and there is no doubt that Trinity and others, need to make progress with their ground, least of all to open up additional revenue streams for themselves but, we still get back to the game of RL and using the Cas / Huddersfield analogy again, the game looks and sounds better from The Jungle than it ever has at Huddersfield but, you surely know this but, couldn't help having a pop at Trinity , again. It's like you think that they stole something which was yours ??

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Koukash was funny about it I agree.but it was a big deal. Koukash was funny about all sorts, unilaterally demanding SL split fully from the RFL until he eventually left the game.