This is how the RU media will likely portray this. I agree something must be done but I would have to question whether this means Super League, NRL and the amateur game will die because of this.

Also as for lack of challenges how many times have Kyle (and Mr Ashton for that matter):

Won the SL grand final
Won the CC
Played in the NRL
Won an ashes series
Won the worl cup
Captained their club/country

I'm really glad you're not an economist. In 4 years of Super League Widnes did not break 7,000 in average attendances (and yes, I'm well aware that's still better than Harlequins, although it's largely not really an improvement on Wakefield). I see little/nothing to suggest that the future would be any different.

Leigh's average attendance in SL in '05 was less than 5 thousand, and yet prior to their promotion everyone was proclaiming how wonderful it was that a traditional club was coming back in to the top flight and that they'd show us how to get attendances. As surely being in the top flight would bring back those people who abandoned the club and didn't come to watch because they [iweren't[/i playing top flight.

This common theory that old club = huge fan base may well be true, there won't be many locals in the towns that these clubs are based who aren't aware of the game and their local club, but they seem just as reluctant to come and watch as the people of Wrexham or Twickenham.

I remember at an RLSA AGM one year, John Huxley was a guest and he stated quite categorically that he was always sending "good news" stories out to his media distribution lists, and it was simply a case of the papers ignoring those stories.

I've got to admit though, the press@rlfans address around that time didn't ever seen to receive much traffic from him.

Getting rid of Quins would be a disaster. It would simply confirm our status as a local sport played only in the M62 corridor. If we're truly to show ourselves as a national sport, not just a regional one, we need all the expansion clubs.

Do that and you may as well admit that RL will be a 2nd rate sport in the UK forever.

the salary cap is killing the game.
the lack of a salary cap was killing the clubs.

we almost went bust ourselves buying players we couldnt afford.........that why we now play at robin park, not central park.

someone mentioned rich owners?
ok.......arnt we in a franchise system?........shouldnt the owner of the franchises be pouring money into their respective clubs?

we are a franchise in name only........we dont even compare with franchises in other sports, mainly american.

answer?.........i havnt got one........thats for the brains behing superleague to work out with the RFL, but salary cap isnt the answer