the Majority of professional sport rely on wealthy backers, If you took wealthy backers out of Premiership football 90% of them would go to the wall next week.
what we see in these three ' statements ' is an opportunistic attempt at power brokering to drive the reduction in clubs in SL, not in some altruistic way to promote the sport but to carve up the Sky funds 12 ways instead of 14.

effectively the RL has abandoned the sport outside of it's Sky funded elite to fend for itself for the past 17 years.

sickening self-aggrandisement on behalf of Macmanus especially.

Maybe the SL chairmen voted on the ridiculous SL Stobart sponsorship as it was the only one on the table? Can't believe they have effectively given away the naming rights of the competition for a bit of contra advertising.

I don't believe the running of the game is all bad by any stretch but the RFL does seem to be failing in bringing money into the game at the top level and generally raising the profile of the sport across the country. The Crusaders farce and the license joke hasn't helped them.

The sooner Lewis and Wood go the better, totally agree of the concerns of the chairmen so far.
Lewis and Wood have basically "asset stripped" the profile of our sport. The marketing and media model these two have set up is a complete joke to the extent that no blue chip or rich backers are interested in a sport with no media presence.
We have a Superleague overloaded with average overseas players from 5 to 12 players per team at cost. Our sport expansion model is now confined to the outer reaches of Manchester. The Stobart deal is the epitome of ineptness yet Lewis and Wood tells us it will benefit the game by £2.5 million..........bells on the other one.

They need to get SL on FTA, don't care how or what short term pain from Sky the game suffers, without FTA TV coverage sport is irrelevant.

There wouldn't be a SuperLeague, in any shape or form, without Sky.

Aye, that rlPremiership Footballrl stuff other people talk about has really suffered from the lack of free-to-air matches.

Hardly the same given the amount of covg it gets on FTA, even if it isn't full games plus print media covg.

Majority of the country barely know RL exists let alone watched a game.

The RFL desperately needs a new regime. The main question has to be, how can a club be given a franchise and then 6 months later it's going into administration?

Secondly we need to get rid of the inherent Yawkshire bias at the RFL. I mean, we've had several Lancs clubs railroaded into getting new stadia - and what are they building over the other side of the Pennines? FFS, when you've got Headingly and Hull KR getting premier event then you know there's a problem

FTA needs to start putting up the £££ for super league. BBC has the challenge cup and its not like they promote it well. There SL highlights show is on at a silly time also!

Sky do a great job and without them SL would have died years ago.

If that were the case then explain why the two Hull clubs (at least) voted against it?

So what was your point about FTA games? There's nothing preventing national print media, TV or radio from reporting on RL other than their own choice - certainly not that SL games are only on Sky, and Championship on Premier Sports.

There are multiple reasons why the national media think that it's not worthwhile reporting on RL, but let's not pretend that Sky's rights to the games are a major factor in that (even if some sports journalists - keen enough to report on other Sky-only minority sports - might pretend that, themselves).

well we can use internationals and Challenge Cup as an example. When shown on on FTA on the weekend its not like the media give us coverage come monday morning.

Damn even on BBC news, when they have their sports section they hardly mention anything from the same CC game they showed on the same day.

I'm interested. Precisely HOW MANY complaints from club chairman would it take for you to concede there is a problem?

8....a majority.
HTH

More than the three self serving cretins that have complained

Especially when one of them doesn't even bother to go to meetings!
How can you have the arrogance to complain in public when you don't even take part in the running of the game when you're invited?