Leigh wont get relegated me thinks

Quote: DemonUK "You have to meet very stringent conditions. So it should read, every club has the possiblilty of a £100k 'grant' from the rfl.

And to LL, to your credit at least you are offended by being called Richard Lewis
The game could be described as in a bit of a mess, but clubs have contributed in a big way to this. Give clubs money and they have a record of wasting it on spending money chasing impossible dreams by spending on the field. So give money to clubs on condition its used to help towards staffing on the commercial/business side and its accused of jumping through hoops for it.
Celtic in SL I fully supported, and you could not refuse them because a backer in Wales does not come up every day. The sport can't afford to spend vast amount of money on grass roots in Wales so made sense to let a club with a backer to enter a high profile league to lift the profile of the sport in Wales. You can't ignore things have gone wrong with it - but its for the weak willed to not want to try to expand the sport, and its those weak willed people that probably use benefit of hindsight to laugh at how it is stuttering (and their powers of intuition proven right). If 5/10 years down the line it works then for the sport its massive, to have a competitive Wales for England to play just like a competitive French side would help us compete against the Aussies.
But as a sport we haven't had the best of luck with how the licensing system came in with the falling out of the worlds economy etc at the same time. Everyone is cutting back and cautious. Salfords stadium a prime example. Football can't sell the games out like they used to.
Leeds are becoming the next dominant force like W1gan used to be IMO. But even so SL with all its faults beats football for having more winners of SL in ratio to number of clubs % to teams winning Prem. Yes I look at positives sometimes instead of constant negatives, which IMO contributes to how the sport is.
We are 1 season into the licenses, and our seemingly slim chances of toppling NZ and Aus is nothing to do with that new system. Its to do with the decline since the 90s with clubs investing in quick fixes, together with the Aussie winning mentality, and the fact the sport is their national sport that makes it difficult for us at the moment.
You mention clubs going under, but as you know this has happened before you know who was in charge, and before SL. Them clubs you name ironically are the fallout of chasing SL (apart from Gateshead maybe). We also had the biggest clubs struggling to survive prior to SL.
But if you shake your head in disbelief and can't take anything above on board, which does involve hard decisions and risks then we want different things for the game. I can totally understand why fans are annoyed at RFL and its been done to death but sometimes as this thread and many more b4 it show the negativity is easy to pick up on - you don't need to be a brain box to pick up on those. You mention Quins for low crowds for example - easy negative, but no mention of a Quins player in the England team. Wow! some might say but to get where the sport should be will take time and in my book s cockney intl is progress.