Mark Aston thinks so. I think they would add more to the competition than Wakey Cas or Salford. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 132148.stm

Mark Aston thinks so. I think they would add more to the competition than Wakey Cas or Salford. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 132148.stm

Hmmm i have a feeling this will be locked in the not to distant future..................

Bizarre.

Nice.

While he isn't everybody's cup of tea , I dont think anybody can fault his commitment to the Eagles , basically he is the Sheffield Eagles , can he get them into SL ?

That will not be easy

The problem is, nobody in the city is bothered about RL. It's going to be the number 3 sport at best after Football and Ice Hockey.

Sheffield are in Superleague... they took 3/4 of a million quid along with Huddersfield to merge... Huddersfield are still there and I dont think they demerged or gave the money back....

so in theory Sheffield are still there.

Don't the Steelers have plans to leave Sheffield in the not too distant future?

Unfortunately, there isn't enough interest in South Yorkshire Rugby League at this moment for either/both/a mixture of the clubs to get a look in.

A few years ago it was Doncaster, now it happens to be Sheffield who is better placed in the league so the noise will be about them.

It's the other issues that one of them needs to sort out to have a genuine SY SL bid

On Mark Aston, as he is indeed Mr Sheffield Eagles that does of course make him the pantomine villain in Doncaster. However I can not begin to deny that he has probably done more for RL in SY than any other individual.

Having said that, I could not see him doing a job at Harlequins, or anywhere else for that matter.

Doncaster were never serious SL contenders, other than in the eyes of Dally Messenger and one complete loon who bankrupted your club.

Sheffield are not serious contenders for SL at this moment in time either. In five years, who knows, but I personally doubt it - and I'm Eagles through ad through.

I know the club are doing a lot of things right - along with Widnes and Fev, they have an Academy team in the comp starting next summer, they have a scholarship, they're working on press, PR and marketing etc - and Bramall Lane is a great stadium. Plus, the Eagles finances are in order.

It's a pipe dream at present, but one that the Eagles are working on. Good on 'em. Whether or not they ever get back to SL, they're one of the better run clubs in British pro RL.

Rubbish. Leigh fans have told us countless times that that's not allowed.

Haha.

It is allowed, you just have to agree to do it in EXACTLY the same was as Super League clubs - and that means finding the money to afford it.

Leigh could have done it, but they decided they couldn't find the cash - probably because all their income was going on Basil's salary.

I've written an article on how the new Academy structure works for a monthly RL mag who will remain nameless. All the details are in there.

Not sure about that, but there's 2 other Sheffield teams in the British leagues as well.


I went up to Bramhall Lane for the cup game against Wigan, and the Sheffield attendance was quite poor to be honest, it was about 75% Wigan fans in there, if not more. People around the city were wondering what on earth was going on when they saw a few thousand Wiganers burst out of the train station.