Clearly all winners of the Grand Final should be Cat A. So that's St Helens, Wigan, Leeds and er Bradford Bulls. Only joking guys. Good luck with your classification. Wish we had someone that could run a club responsibly.

Are you not gonna get a new £30 M stadium ?

To try to reach Category A is to improve the look of the West stand which is quite an eyesore and marketing. We obviously fail on average attendance so hence the need to improve our poor marketing effort. We also need to improve the whole experience of attending the games. I can hear the moaning from here but our on field struggles will go against us because we are perceived to be a club that contributes little.
The plus side is that we support all types of teams, our finances one would hope would be a positive, our off field scholarship scheme and our history but I am not sure this counts.
We will know what we have to do to increase our chances and we must do it, some things will be hard like average attendances and our historic contribution but we are now reaching our 25th season.

Not a chance

They haven't even said what the criteria is. Although some of your points are probably right, they are not 'obvious' yet.

Ooh yes. And when we do we will change our nickname to Flying Pigs.



Can't see us making next season.

What a stich up Did not watch Grand Final because of same old faces .Think TV will only show matches that involves 2 graded A teams playing each other ,so we can say S L will be down to 6 plus teams The other so called S L clubs will be feeder clubs .The Best laugh is for most of the grade A teams it is all down to playing in Football stadiums .It is not for me it is switch T V off time for me

Agree with the last posting, after a while who would get fed up with only watching A listed SL ties, as viewing figures drop, even sky would not pay millions, where will funds come from for B listed teams to build teams up ? Sky deal has one more season to run ? Why should they pay for continued same fixtures & same Finals ?
In the NRL, teams who near or run over salary cap let go of players usually on the largest wages, but, here is the difference, the bottom
Four clubs get first pick ! This is to ensure an evening up of playing rosters where lower teams can & do perform higher the next seasons.
our top clubs fear this & will never subscribe to this ethos ! - for the good of the game !
I fear our rugby is doomed to 6 or 8 clubs only recognised as viable ! This will be so for many, many years to come.

It'll only be "6 or 8" clubs if no one else picks up their game enough to be in there.

The point is to get clubs up to that standard.

I just don’t think there’s enough information… for example… who will manage the criteria, it’s evaluation, it’s application etc… there are way too many variables at this stage and I think it foolhardy to have broken cover with such an incomplete concept.

They’ve just rehashed a few old ideas.. given it a three word slogan and presented it as new… IMG have been small on the ‘what’ will be done and almost silent on the ‘how’

A further period of uncertainty and instability is the last thing the game in the UK needs… yet we have a planned three year period of… ??? I’m not even sure what???…Until the idea is fully formed and implemented …

this is probably the most amateur intervention I have seen in my 50 years as a fan… and there have been some doozers!

Pop tart, getting to the top grade is the point, but you cannot get there without money = investment, but more important while you try to grow talented players will be picked off as they will want to be a grade A team player, if my son came home & said dad, I have a chance of playing for a grade A team or stay with my home club a B rated side what should I do ? Any father would say go & secure your future !
Therefore, category B clubs WILL be feeder clubs !