Quote P-J="P-J"So what's the answer? We can't raise the Salary Cap because a good percentage of the league isn't spending to the limit of the current one and an even higher percentage would go under if they tried to.
There is simply no money in the game. It's due to a lack of sponsors and an unfavourable TV deal.
Union is utter, utter poop but money rolls in because their marketing team is first rate.'"
Spreading the tv money over 14 teams isn't helping to sustain a high level with the money that comes in realistically the league probably needs to be 10 teams but that's not big enough and sky won't go for that. However I think it's a good idea as if we had 10 then they could have half the league in the playoffs and be the 5 team system again.
That then breeds the problem that we need to get rid of 4 teams which would be professional and that makes the championship unfair which is probably why their sky deal isn't so great.
Maybe we could do with a match being shown on all 3 days (sky having the monopoly on Monday nights aside from Easter Monday) on a channel like premier sports. That gives more league money and if it applied to the championship too maybe we could sustain two franchises leagues of SL and Championship each of ten teams and each all professional and have all leagues below semi professional.
Usually I would say "if its doable they'd have done it" but the way the rfl works they probably haven't even thought of it.
