m.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-war ... -1-5098595 Lets hope he takes a print out of some of the posts on this board from the last few weeks. As well as a real fans view of the current state of the game it might give the RFL a few ideas.

m.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-war ... -1-5098595 Lets hope he takes a print out of some of the posts on this board from the last few weeks. As well as a real fans view of the current state of the game it might give the RFL a few ideas.

Well one thing has been stated at Amateur level meetings is that the RFL have admitted YES ADMITTED ! That they have not promoted the sport enough, i hope that this simple admission is a step in the right direction for the sport as a whole.

I appreciate that SL clubs and the RFL have to manage the relevant clubs/sport however please do not continually ignore the paying customers views as there is a lot they can do to both help and hinder the sport.

Please RFL work with us (Fans), we know we cannot do everything but we can have a damn good try !

The specifics will be the interesting thing.
That's of course if we are ever told what has been discussed, which is a major part of the RFL/SL's problem.
IL is right that we can improve, including Wigan. For instance, our captain re-signed on a five year deal some time ago but the club did not inform the fans! This was massive as Lockers is such a vital part of the club and the squad.
There are too many features implemented which are unpopular throughout the game yet the RFL/SL persist with them.
Until they open regular lines of communication with the games supporters then things will continue to hamper the progress of our sport.

Didn't want to create a new thread on the same lines but Hull FC had a fans forum last night and a few snippets regards the future of SL were released-Promotion/Relegation and 12 teams in SL looking likely.
-Only was England can improve is by playing Exiles and having more players in NRL.
-Ellis is a beast. Whiting is champion and always in Gentle's 17. Galea has point to prove.
-Seymour is staying. Gentle sees him as a 6, with him, Heremaia, Horney and Holdsworth all potentially playing in the halves.
-AP is the man. He genuinely wants Hull FC to be the biggest and best in SL. Wants 7-8 Hull based players in the team.
-RFL are a farce. '"

We pay the smc 500k a year rent Bulls pay the rfl 90k a year rent WTF posting.php?mode=quote&f=34&p=17182663&tsmp=1352368100 That makes the Wigan deal at the DW look very good indeed.

We pay the smc 500k a year rent Bulls pay the rfl 90k a year rent WTF posting.php?mode=quote&f=34&p=17182663&tsmp=1352368100 That makes the Wigan deal at the DW look very good indeed.

Talk about being totally underwhelmed by that. He won't say what he wants to push for. It's all a big secret and so the rest of the article is speculation.

As to the prospect of P&R returning this is just more tinkering around the edges. How will this get any more money into the game? The last time we had it relegation was a financial disaster for a club and any efforts made to assemble a squad based on home grown players was set aside as clubs tried to being in ready made players to avoid the drop. If they did produce any players they lost them as they all became free agents once a club went down.

What they really want to look at and focus on is one thing - getting more money into the game. Period.

If they could do that then they could start considering things like P&R again. Maybe they could subsidise NL1 so they could have a bigger salary cap and relegation would not be such a financial problem. It would just be a sporting issue as it should be not cause clubs to have the team dismantled.

I hope the Chairmen at the meeting don,t read the news in the Sydney Morning Herald while
they are eating their cornflakes,otherwise they will choke on them.

The news out of Sydney this morning is that the NRL players Union have had several meetings with regards to getting the NRL Cap increased,thereby giving them increased wages.
At present it is a max of $5 million per club,the players are asking for as much as $6.2 million. The clubs say it will stay at $5 million and some clubs may have to move players on.

The NRL are to give each club a grant of $7 million for the coming season and this will be reviewed at the end of the season.

Of this $5.85 million is to cover the cost of wages for all grades at the club,the balance of
$1.25 million is to cover the cost of restructuring in the clubs,which the NRL is calling for.

Talk about Princes and Paupers,the difference between the British RL and the NRL is like asking the football Conference to compete against the Premier League.

Does seem odd that under P & R Widnes would not have got into SL.
Also now they are in, if there had been P & R they'd have been relegated.
How P & R will help the game by increasing revenue or levels of competiveness I don't know.
Widnes had 16 - 18 months notice and still couldn't compete, so how is a club with 3-4 months notice going to compete? Answer, they are not!
If the RFL/SL want to increase revenue they first have to start with their existing competitons, SL, Challenge Cup, Play offs and Grand Final.
So lets see what they come up with in that regard.

Whilst we are at it, there's a headline on the BBC site with regards to the RFU plans for their world cup in 2015.

£1 million to train 6,500 referees and coaches, works out at £153.85 each do you think they've got their figure correct?

Here's an idea to make SL better IL. Stop voting to preserve the CC, get your hand in your pocket and get some Marquee players back into the game.

It's this kind of player that used to get us excited at Wigan. No-one want's to watch mediocrity, no matter how much the "average" player may or may not have improved.

It's players like Boston (who, let's be honest would probably get picked up and dumped on his arris by someone like Hall, as wingers have changed since "his day". This is exactly the point I am making though, for in "his day" he was exceptional, a player who would bring in supporters and excite the crowd. It doesn't matter that in absolute terms he would now be playing for Leigh, in his time he was standout). It's exactly this relative argument that holds today. Supporters want to see stars, stars relative to their contemporaries. A better standard of player leads to a very dull game if every player is at "that" standard.

This holds as much for any sport as it does RL, and is one of the prime reasons why the CC is flawed, but that's another story.

I'm not actually sure of the point that IL is making (if indeed there was one at all) in that article.

What a waste of two days.

Let's have a meting to discuss the last meeting.