My "traditional Village team" ain't doing too badly. Plenty of room for more village teams in SL.

David Hughes has pumped in excess of 13,000,000 into London RL over the seasons 2008 to 2013.......he achieved little in that period.....other than an academy that is now pumping out players of championship standard. He admittedly has little understanding of the importance of crowds, but he will walk away leaving us debt free......that's 13 million pounds by the way.

Dr M has invested nothing like that figure, and achieved pretty much the same......attendances BTW are running at 2012 levels now and Salford are sitting on 9 points at the 50% stage of the season......you were on 8 points this time 2012.

Bradford, Wakefield and London are the only teams worse than Salford this year and the fact is that the "new" "new" "new" Salford next year will have a "new" coach after 8 rounds or so if they aren't in the top half.......Marwan is a breath of fresh air and I hope he has the stamina for it, but in reality, he needs to understand he hasn't bought Manchester City.

London and Bradford down!

This.

A thousand times over.

And again. A thousand times over.

If that is the case then the village teams will not be going up, so what is lost. We had to go down to 12 according to many.

It's strange how lower salary cap restraints are only concerning to SL clubs likely to be relegated. There was little concern before.

Although the gap will be now where near what it is currently. Personally I'd just scrap the salary cap and have a break even cap, then Championship clubs can spend up to their revenue.

I have no problems with a "village" team, when ever you get a large group of RL fans together "Classy Cas'" quickly emerge as everyones' (well the majority, lmao) "second" team.

Hughes, 'Fax?? Yep, an absolute fortune, it's unbelievable really that a successful businessman could blow so much and get so many fundamentals wrong, I'd pee myself laughing if I wasn't a London fan.

Quite right Pete, Fulham could be described as a ' Village ' in truth

And that after his generous donation to Leigh in February!!!!

Dearie me.

Excellent post

it's a pity Wigan are not an option in the poll, we could win this as well..!!!

All of them

For CONSISTENCY anyway

The word of RL favour at the moment.

Or they don't stay down there and the game loses fans ,money and a club and you can pretend your idiotic logic that because nobody in Bradford wants to watch a part-time competition against village sides they don't 'deserve' SL is anything other than bitter, vindictive tall poppy syndrome.

It's especially hypocritical coming from you, who has argued long and hard for many many hours that it was only the dream of getting out of the part-time pit village league that kept these part-time pit village clubs alive, yet you think Bradford should accept the opposite with good grace? You want to start moralising and doing down Bradford fans for not being loyal enough to stick by a club being kicked from pillar to post, talk of being loyal coming from a man who brags about not going to games any more just because he doesn't like the league structure?

Ha, I'm embarrassed for you

Bloody hell, thirteen decent performances undoes years of struggling?

Stability, long term planning, the focus on youth, the focus on competing at the top not just surviving at the bottom, stability of income, the ability to negotiate long term deals, any ability to expand in any planned way, the ability to grow in any planned way, the ability for long term planning and marketing of events as nobody knows who would be in them, etc etc,

That's what's lost