League placing according to yorkshire Live.
Thoughts?

IMG's criteria reveal has provided fresh insight into the grading process, with on-field performance still a major part of the equation. Five key criteria will determine the scores of all 36 clubs, with results on the pitch counting for 25 per cent of a club's overall score.

The criteria has confirmed clubs will be ranked 1-36 based on their performances over a three-season period. The score will be determined via league positions and trophy wins from the most recent season.

Taking that theory into account, we decided to crunch the numbers and figure out how the league table will look based on the current three seasons. That did provide some challenges given the curtailed 2020 season for Championship and League 1, meaning 2019 results were instead taken into account for this sample. Of course, the results from that season will be irrelevant when the real grading system comes into play.
The other uncertainty comes around the play-offs and whether a club's performance in them determines their 'league position' or where they finished in the regular season. As an example, Leeds finished fifth last year but made the Grand Final, which would align with finishing second. For this sample, it has been based on league position only.

Unsurprisingly, St Helens come out on top having won three Grand Finals, a Challenge Cup and two League Leaders' Shields in that time. Closely behind are the three other clubs to win trophies in the past three seasons, Wigan Warriors, Catalans Dragons and Leeds Rhinos. Despite their shocking 2022 campaign, Warrington are fifth. At the other end of Super League, Wakefield are eleventh and Leigh thirteenth, though their score is hampered by the fact they finished fourth in the Championship in 2019. Toulouse are in between them.

Championship outfit Keighley, who have been the largest dissenting voice to the grading system, are in 32nd place, punished largely for finishing next to bottom of League 1 in 2019.

A full 36-team league table based on IMG's on-field grading criteria

1 St Helens
2 Wigan Warriors
3 Catalans Dragons
4 Leeds Rhinos
5 Warrington Wolves
6 Huddersfield Giants
7 Castleford Tigers
8 Hull FC
9 Hull KR
10 Salford Red Devils
11 Wakefield Trinity
12 Toulouse Olympique
13 Leigh Leopards
14 Featherstone Rovers
15 Halifax Panthers
16 London Broncos
17 York Knights
18 Batley Bulldogs
19 Bradford Bulls
20 Sheffield Eagles
21 Widnes Vikings
22 Whitehaven
23 Barrow Raiders
24 Dewsbury Rams
25 Newcastle Thunder
26 Swinton Lions
27 Workington Town
28 Oldham
29 Rochdale Hornets
30 North Wales Crusaders
31 Doncaster
32 Keighley Cougars
33 Hunslet
34 Midlands Hurricanes
35 London Skolars
36 Cornwall

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.

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.