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Woohoo, Leeds are Champions of Super League despite having a crap team. How on earth can anyone call this game a sport anymore. It's an effing joke. Doesn't matter what you do on the field, an Excel spreadsheet will decide your future. They will kill the end of season games and I fear for the clubs left out. Some of the teams above us are a joke, especially Toulouse and Wakey. Last person out please switch the lights off. They should bin IM effing G before they kill the game.

Roll on Derek and his investors new league Ultimate Rugby. Super League or whatever IMG rename it - I suggest Droopy league - died today.

To be honest, I am a little surprised at our 12th place. On the other hand I have taken some flak for suggesting Leigh's social media is a joke. There have been some improvements but nowhere near enough. Not having a website for most of the season is a disgrace and then publishing something that is amateurish at best and with very little content. Leopards TV should be free or available on YouTube.

The team is now performing, there is a thriving Women's team, but there is still no reserve grade or academy (fault lies entirely with RFL).

I have no doubt Leigh can up the score for next season, but as Wysiwyg pointed out there are plenty of teams above Leigh who are doing a far worse job.

The whole IMG thingy is a Boad o Lollocks!!

website was a failure but only totals 0.5 hope the club publishes score breakdown

Very surprising that Toulouse achieved a higher ranking than us.

Something screwy about the whole gradings, and it's nothing but a pile of Cack!

IMG were brought in to do a specific thing. Unofficially, of course, their remit was protectionism. Wow! Leeds, Wigan, St Helens, Warrington and the two Hulls (plus the RFL's pet project, Catalans) get a Grade A. Who'da thought it?

Bongser's read on the gradings (for what it's worth) is this: IMG looked for all the things that the preferred clubs had and that not many others did. They then allotted loads of points to those things. Job Done Sticker!

Trouble is that the rest of the rankings, as a result, are an absolute dog's dinner that makes them look like complete fools - or, maybe, shows them for who they are?

How long is it since Thunder called it a day - couple of weeks? Not long enough for IMG! Their graphic (or maybe that of the RFL) shows Newcastle six places above London. London are a Super League club on merit as they won the "MPG" last season - the fact that Bongser has always been against the RFL (& SkY's) Play Off shenanigans (as they used to say at the end of every episode of "Tales of the Riverbank"icon_wink.gif is a tale for another day. London are ranked 24th out of 36 (should be 35)! Yes, as a very bitter poster on Broncos' forum would tell you at length, there is a lot to do to improve the prospects of RL in our glorious capital - but having SL clubs visit every fortnight would surely help!

Bongser is told that Leigh's Challenge Cup win is not included in these gradings (and, it is to be assumed therefrom) their high league finish. Have IMG left one person (gender neutral) of circa 80 IQ to deal with things?

If IMG can't market themselves, how are they going to market our sport?

we will have scored full marks on social media, website got required hits in weekend 1 and the reserves and academy play no scoring part

Tipster Ste, If what you say above about our scores is correct, how could Toulouse have ranked higher than Leigh given Toulouse only had one year on Super League finishing 12th?

i have no idea mate the only thing they should outside us on is community - based off the bull criteria

Here is the full doc taken from RFL site https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... %20Version).pdf

Here is the full doc taken from RFL site https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... %20Version).pdf

Thanks Ste, I read through that document yesterday and looking at the criteria used to score each pillar, if the integrity of the data applied can be relied upon, I find it hard to see how Toulouse can have achieved a higher ranking than Leigh. https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... %20Version).pdf

Thanks Ste, I read through that document yesterday and looking at the criteria used to score each pillar, if the integrity of the data applied can be relied upon, I find it hard to see how Toulouse can have achieved a higher ranking than Leigh. https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... %20Version).pdf