You answer your own question, apart from the Premier League ( the most widely watched, supported , sponsored, internationally worker populated competition of the worlds most popular sport ) all your other examples are not club sport, but International sport, we dont have a competitive International aspect to RL, therefore RL will remain a regional sport, its marketing should reflect that, our only option is to build up our clubs local support

Australian rules is a regional sport, Gealic football and Hurling similarily are regional non international sports, yes we need to try to expand the International interest in RL, on the other thread I pointed out an idea several years ago when Russia were showing interest, but as usual RL never does anything properly, it is always half cocked, underfunded, our club sides ( all of them ) have no interest in building the game ( we see criticism of ' self interest ' by SL fans of the lower tier clubs, well the SL clubs are no different in that regard )

We are a regional sport, and that isnt going to change any day soon, until we can run a world Cup with 16 nations ' competing ' and 6 potential winners we will remain a minority regional sport played in Australia, Norther England and the south of France ( even in NZ the sport is seen as something the ' Coconuts ' , slang term for South Sea Islanders and the Moaris not good enough for Union play )

More voting power? , meaning an increase in the salary cap, meaning a bigger gap between the top 5/6 and the rest, that will help

No, you are on the wrong wavelength. Its about getting the successful clubs to demonstate how to be more successful without effecting there market share. For example Featherstone Rovers might be better run and more successful pro rata than Salford so Featherstone would have more voting power.
On the subject of the salary cap we still have a lot of clubs who do not spend up to the salary cap limit because they do not have income revenue streams or business plans in place to achieve this. The more successful better run clubs need for the future existence of the sport share the business methods or have a bigger influence in this area by voting power.
The objective should be 10 clubs in profit spending to salary cap.......then looking at raising it according to the cross section finance of superleague, for the championships this would be filtered down and partly financed through RFL subsidy.

5 years ago Bradford would have been in that list. "Chairman stupidity" is a fluent market.

2nd and 3rd tier RL divisions have drawn sub 1500 crowds for the whole 30 years I've followed the game, how has SL made it any worse?

Thats correct, its because we have this "I,m alright Jack" mentality amongst clubs instead of integration and transparency we only react on failure. Think Mc Manus covered this early this season on the deaf ears of the RFL and his only avenue to raise the issue was with the media.

The successful clubs are successful partly because of historical support, Leeds have been the ' richest ' club for decades because they are from a large city, how can you change that?

Yes your idea is great, but it just wont happen, when licening was originally suggested we were told CLUBS would behave differently, those among the doubters suggested differently, we stated that coaches would still look for the finished article before a junior, tgat Chairmen would still demand succes, fans also would not be willing to wait to see if their junior development would pay off 5/6/7 years down the line

Are SL clubs giving young British coaches a chance? , no, we have an influx of coaches from down under

Clubs and their owners will do what they consider is best for their club, not the sport as a whole, their fans demand it

Has it made it any better?

And Mr Mc Manus would be just the same, he might comment about something, but if it adversley affected his club ( but was better for the sport as a whole ) he would do anything to change it

Sorry, I've just had a couple of days of shocked delayed reaction: did someone from the woe is us camp really cite MICK GLEDHILL as a reliable source???!!!!

Maybe, it sounded more like a principal concern from my viewpoint. Its possible we might have a "vacuum" within the RFL where nothing gets done and with the lack of transparency, the superleague is fragmented into individual success and failure.
The RFL without controlling individual clubs must be a sporting body good at business plans, marketing, sponsor links, media relations, development etc to project beyond regional areas. All we have is gimmicks and to a large extent silence from Red Hall when negative events occur.


You are in charge of the RFL, what would you change short to long term.

I would agree with that post

No and I doubt it ever will or could. To suggest SL is a failure because the clubs outside of it get low crowds and financially struggle is nonsense. It has always been that way and always will be as far as I can see, SL or no SL. In fact SL is merely Div1, The Big League, call it whatever you like. If you wanted to ask the question it should be is the RFL failing RL outside of SL or is the RFL failing to advance SL. It is not the job of the clubs in SL to sort out teh games problems.