Average salary = £66,000p.a. Obviously not everyone's on the same wedge.

Same its dull

I wrote a 2000 article on what how the game needs to be changed or it will die.

Just wish we had a competition where everyone has the same (or nearly the same) chance of winning.

Quite frankly, they may as well have an 8 team sooper dooper league and cut the rest of us adrift.

Gawd, this rain is making me feel really negative today.

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Wow. Just wow.

To think I just wasted 5 minutes reading part 1. Is it a windup?

hah no. Well maybe the names of the divisions but most of the rest should be a fundamental.
Why on earth all the clubs fork out on seperate web presences and associated pr time and money that goes into running them when microsites from the main league page is good enough for the likes of the Yankees and the LA Lakers is beyond me.
NFL lives with having one kit manufacturer supply all the kits to all the teams - RL cant?
Teams in the lower leagues have v little chance of getting into SL at the moment - expand -close and create a feeder comp with the div below.
Split the divs into geographical rivals and cut the fixtures to allow more time for the national side to train together.
Split revenues to allow the smaller sides to compete and give the bigger sides the oppo to increase salary cap giving the better players more potential to earn in the sport rather than leave.
Off season draft for players to create big media focus when rest of the comp is in hybernation - only need to see the NFL draft on Thursday to see the impact of that.
Draft gives the crap teams hope for future.
Shared ownership of league rather than individual ownership of teams means it is in everyone's best interest to see all teams work.

Just a couple of thoughts prob all lunacy and will never come to pass but current model has left the sport with a faint scent of death about it.

You wouldn't be saying that if we were having a good season. Massive knee jerk. Nothing wrong with the current model itself, more key stakeholders within the game who are making some horrendous choices.

I quite like the ridiculousness of it all but your notion that is apparently 'rubbish' that 24 teams cannot be supported is incredibly inaccurate and let's your whole plan down.

Was scribed in the off-season so not really knee jerk.
Interesting view point that the game cant support or look to grow to a further 10 fully pro teams. Sad if that is true though.

Interesting but realistic at the moment. And I noted when it was written, after our wonderful effort last year.

Lets get pads, sticks and ice and be done with it.

If the American model for sport is so good why do other countries not bother playing them or replicate the model etc

Get yourself on a jet and sod of home

Yup.

One thing that really doesn't help Rugby League are its miserable, negative, fickle supporters. I find Mr Rugby League's stance on this very amusing considering he was bagging our supporters a few months ago for not going to away matches and not supporting our great game, now he is the one producing rants about how the sport is on its , while he doesn't bother going to any away matches himself as we are getting hammered every week. Top fan you lad

That’s what bored journalists’ do- write utter rubbish using their fertile imagination. Sadly in our case our reporter !!! has the added quirk of being a yank- Hence what we’ve ended up with