Quote: jtfev "Don't think your views would be the same if your club was in the championship and and all the joy has gone from the first game as there's no where to go there all dead rubber games
It not good for the game to see clubs getting millions from Sky and blowing it on over the hill players and not investing it in there club to improve things for there fans but it happens I'm not against what's best for rugby league but let everyone have a equal chance and when clubs don't deliver don't leave them in the top flight while other clubs work hard to get there and are stopped'"
I was waiting for this.
It's a different issue you are talking about or at least it should be.
No way am I suggesting the SL should be a closed shop. There needs to be a way to reward excellence and not reward ineptitude. I just don't think a yearly scramble to survive is any longer the way to do it and I don't think you do deep down. Lets be honest here, good though Fev are in many ways if you came up your tenure in SL would be one maybe two years at best. Despite what your Coach/BOD say they will panic and use mercenaries rather than build a team from the huge talent pool that exists in Featherstone/Pontefract. It would destroy your club.
Trinity have only survived in SL due to huge slices of luck. Yeah we have worked and fought hard but we have been lucky - whether it be a really crap Hudds, a Goulding brain explosion at Salford, Cas tripping themselves up when they had it in the bag or Crusaders crashing last minute - I can't see anyone having that adventure again, sorry but that is a Trinity patent
Yes a mechanism is required and the obvious one in a flourishing united and far sighted game would be to expand the league - but that's not RL where short sightedness is the name of the game.
