https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlEPGiC4CNE Interesting conversation here with the Keighley owners and I've got to say I largely agree with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlEPGiC4CNE Interesting conversation here with the Keighley owners and I've got to say I largely agree with them.

Excellent video, I’m even more convinced now more than previously that IMG are manipulating the system to suit a certain agenda. The 2 Keighley owners have given us an insight and a reason to why the game will eventually die if these proposals are passed.
I hope all the fans watch this video, I think most will agree with the comments given.

Yes watched it myself, I have never heard of these two guys but they seemed two genuine blokes trying their best for their club. They do make some very valid points and I tend to agree with them mostly.
I think this IMG plan will all be long forgotten in 5 or 6 years and someone will be thinking of further new ways to reinvent the Rugby League wheel.

Not watched the video yet, but said from the outset that they can set the criteria to suit who they want inSL.

Well I couldn’t have put it any better myself. Have been saying this myself. Why is it that rugby league has an inbuilt self destruct set as default mode. Right back to the BARLA fiasco when people who promoted and run the amateur level for no more than the game itself were pushed out as it wasn’t in keeping anymore.
Through to the new super league and the the new style of your face has to fit!!!
Every club owner should listen to this and take a deep long look at their souls and decide is this what they want their legacy to the game to be???
I wish these two could be running the RFL, they seem to stand for everything that I personally believe and seem to have a really good grasp of what the sport is and where it should go.
Well done for speaking up against the tide.

I'm convinced it is a fait accompli and at best only one of us, Cas & Fev will make the cut if any of us do at all. I have no doubt they will target expansion sides in some kind of far-fetched claim of world domination which will fill the spots of many of the traditional teams and on the back of that will spell the death knell of many of those clubs. I have no confidence that the scores won't be fudged to suit and the top league will become a closed shop soon enough with those inside at that time creaming all the funds and leaving the rest to rot. They probably would quite like some of the current clubs to merge to be honest.....

Honestly, I don't get the chip on the shoulder.
Criteria is the same for everyone. We need to work hard to get it.

Is the full criteria published… I would love to see the way in which criteria and criterion are articulated, and weighted … for example Leeds and Hunslet … Leeds are based in Headingley… Hunslet in South Leeds… Wigan and Leigh… do/can St Helens claim Liverpool as catchment? How does the boundary of the community foundation we (trinity) have, relate to the catchment area area of the club?

Further with regard to playing results… if the assessment is of the club … how much store is place on the cumulative results of all the teams representing the club rather than just the male first grade??

So many questions

It is all purposely vague so they can get the teams in that they want and get rid of the teams that they don't. IMG are in this to make money, they don't care about Rugby League as a sport or its heritage, to them it is a money making exercise.

I just don't see how we fit into their plans, if you take any sort of Rose Tinted Glasses off then under the criteria Cas are ahead of us and have almost twice the crowds that we do. I would bet that even teams like Bradford and potentially York as well as London would be favored over us and again you may not agree but with the vagueness of the criteria it is very easy to justify.

You also need to remember that if Toulouse are in any sort of reasonable financial state that they will be a shoe in for it as well.

Our only chance of surviving the cull is being successful on the field this season and next but it is clear that our board have no means or willingness to try and make this happen.

Isn't every single person involved in Super League earning money for what they do? It's hardly a shock IMG are getting paid.
And I can't really see why anything but a successful league will be good for them.
It's up to us to be part of it.

Well your one that they’ve won over with their talk a lot and say very little sales pitch.
Glover will be doing the next meeting at cedar court for them.
Have to say I read a lot of what you say on here pop tart and find your posts on the most very much a positive and well balanced view. However on this I don’t understand where you want us to be in this new system and don’t get how people don’t see this as anything but a bad idea for RL.
Just because we are badly run doesn’t mean that anything else has to be better.
Well that’s what I think anyway and like is said I wish the keighly guys actually ran the RL. I believe they would do a far better job.