So teams with the money ie successful owners who made money through intelligence and shrewd behaviour who know how to run a business and a sports club shouldn't be trusted yet clubs who are constantly in the crapper making bad decision after bad decision are the ones to listen to?
Are you working for the government?


Side note
Koukash voted against it purely based on asking his fans what they wanted. He said so on Twitter, he also said it is what it is now and get behind it.

see above

Jeez, it’s a good job our lot didn’t ask the fans, we could have been looking at a ten team lock-out (alledgedly)

Do you have any idea how damning that statement is....

We opt for the crazy because the offered alternative is stupid...


Wow... Just wow!

Rumours of the proposed alternative may have sounded better at first viewing - but the financial package attached would have been heavily in favour of the 'richer' clubs. Those at the top of SL would be getting a lot more money than those further down - hence the 'richer' clubs voting against the RFL proposal.

The new structure ensures a more even distribution of funding throughout the game.

We are no more likely to be relegated now than we were before yesterday as the agreement for 12 clubs was already agreed in principal and the RFL had stated up front that if the SL clubs couldn't agree then there would be 2up and 2down, so no change there. Under these proposals, should the worst happen and we do end up relegated, then we will be much better off under this structure.

There is much mirth about the new structure, and not everyone will like it, but it's not all bad news!

Have a read of the 28 page report.

And yes, I do realise that!

The report provides no insight or solution... It is an appallingly poor piece of work, delivered by incompetent people.
To base the future of our sport on that is folly, bordering neglect

As with many such pieces of work it reflects the requirements f the reports sponsor and is structured to maipulate its audience and to obtain a desired outcome, for the sponsor.

This situation required a genuinely independent review and a working party to set in place a 25 year plan for the game in the uk... At all levels, and it's interaction with the international game.

The current incumbents of power are merely custodians of the game for future generations, and should act like that. These people are thinking no further than their next pay cheque.

I haven't read every page but suggest your first form of protest should be at your own club, as they were one of the seven that voted for it. No doubt under the instruction of the Hetheringtons!!

Then again you could say, those big clubs that happen to have wealthy owners are looking after their own and not necessarily what's best for RL.

Well said.

Considering that Leeds have aligned with the smaller clubs it would suggest that Leeds [Gary] have done what Wakefield [Kath] told them.

IF the other option was all about the big clubs getting a larger slice of the pie it points to a bleak future for the elite game as it stands and only highlights why sound governance of the game is so important and why these greedy so and so's arent left to loot the game for themselves!!!
Sadly the bafoonery at red hall are so short sighted and hell bent on covering their own booty's that their overall incompitency will let them in the back door, because who really trusts them to run the game properly anyway!!
One day these lot will be hoisted by their own petards and the likes of lenagan et al will be in as quick as a flash to pocket the family silver!!
You get to choose from incompitant or self interest, either way our face doesnt currently fit, so its turkey's voting for christmas.