They have 2 bases in Leeds, the HQ at Red Hall and the match officials dept at Leeds Met Uni

We did have a brief (two week?) period in the 90s when Super League Europe had an office in London fronted by Colin Myler - good Widnes boy and until last week (clean) Editor of the News of the World. I think he was too independent minded (of course they should have known that when they recruited him) and too far away for the control freak tendency at Red Hall.

Apparently, the RFL media team have been looking at the possibility of moving to Media City but a lot of the employees live in Leeds

Get rid of them then. Manchester has a better class of people anyway.

Been saying for a while that the RFL should move to the new media city. The long and short term benfits would be fantastic.

Yeah, I was told that the media dept was moving from Red Hall to Media City too. This was a year ago, have plans changed?

The RFL are going to purchase the old BBC Television centre on Woodhouse Lane

Do the RFL own Red Hall? Seem to recall they don't own it but have it on long lease from Leeds city Council

And? It's about half an hour from Leeds.

I wouldn't want to take the train, too unreliable and quite frankly a pain. I wouldn't want to spend an hour and half (if I'm lucky) in the car in peak time traffic. That said, there's plenty that do commute I guess.

The RFL should have a big purpose built office by the centre of Huddersfield! Failing that, some sy office space that's going begging in the centre of Leeds / Manchester or at MediaCity.

One word response that covers the above options. Cost.

I used to commute from Brighouse to South Manchester and that used to take an hour and a half. Tough luck if they don't want to commute IMO, it's not that far!

I think it's mainly due to employees living in Leeds. I think a lot of the RFL staff contracts are up in 2013 so maybe they will fire some off and move to Media City. Probably not though

Trains every 1/2 hour between Leeds and Manchester!!!

I work in Leeds.

Most of the employees don't live in Leeds, in fact quite a lot commute a further distance than betwen Leeds and Manchester.

I suppose it depends upon personal circumstances where you are prepared work and what you are prepared to do to keep in employment.