Oddly I think he's a Saints troll.

I'm presuming the theory is that the game won't attract outside investment if there is the risk of it being blown because of one bad season.

If the game can end up in the situation where we can attract decent union and NRL players, and properly grow our grass roots, it's all good. The game is just stumbling along at the moment, which isn't good. The peak of super league were the franchising years, in my view, although it's hard to know whether its growth has been stunted by the greater funds that became available in the NRL. Look at the England side. Plenty of NRL players, plus those who went but got homesick.

Let's be honest. Our concern isn't that it won't grow the game but that we might Grade B and vulnerable.

Neutral fans like success. Most sports fans know a lot of the Wigan team from the early nineties, some even household names, and it was the most boring era in the sport, a one-team comp. Neutral fans don't necessarily like competition. They like watching excellence. If we can make them switch on because there is excellence at the top, let's give it a go. Cas-v-Wakey in its current form might be one for the purists, but it won't have big money knocking on many doors. It looks like a seventies relic, like speedway.

Yeah, because it was the smaller clubs fault that you finished 11th last year was it?

Never mind, next year could be your year

I don’t think he’s even a Saints fan tbf. He’s a troll that for some reason has free reign of RLFANS.

I’m a st Helen’s fan.

How’s the new stadium coming along you promised decades ago?

All the salary cap has done is try to bring the big clubs down to your level. All that has achieved is ruining the standard of rugby league in this country.

You are b minus at best

And you are a complete dunce at best, go and stand in the corner

At least we are det free .With posts like these you can see why St are getting a bad name as grubs of R L.

He's gone now. No need to reply to him. He can't post on here.

Thanks a lot Pop Tart

Stadium coming on nicely thanks as you already know seeing as you're all over this forum..

The salary cap has helped you more. Otherwise you'd have never got out of Wigans back pocket where they had you for 10 years.

Also if the salary cap has had such an impact dragging you down to our level. Then why have only 4 teams won the grand final since. One of which is now in the championship.

Not interested in a reply. Just bore off.

Another short episode from SMTM. I think it’s worth listening to the debate and ideas, also mentioned the RL clubs are meeting on Thursday to vote on the proposals. https://t.co/UQuXsoscDq

Another short episode from SMTM. I think it’s worth listening to the debate and ideas, also mentioned the RL clubs are meeting on Thursday to vote on the proposals. https://t.co/UQuXsoscDq

I know I’m probably paranoid when it comes to Trinity, but things like this send a shiver down my spine. e.leeds-live.co.uk/_act/link.php ... Id=8345848

I know I’m probably paranoid when it comes to Trinity, but things like this send a shiver down my spine. e.leeds-live.co.uk/_act/link.php ... Id=8345848

I'm with you Dunkirk.
Like you, call me paranoid but, with the likes of London, Toulouse, Newcastle, York, Bradford, Fev all wanting a spot in SL, IMG will be able to engineer their criteria to fit whoever they want into SL.
The HUGE elephant in the room is what funding will be available and without pointing out the obvious, just what did London's inclusion in SL do for the game overall when they were last in the top flight.
It almost looks like we are going back 25+ years to when SL was started, with certain clubs utterly protected and others (like Trin) being seen as collateral damage.
Something maybe does need to be done to prevent the promoted side being relegated immediately but, you just get the feeling that we are about to get right royally shafted.