Not a worry at all. The format hasn’t even had a full half season yet so talk of any amendment is frankly silly. The only reason that London are trying to get an adaptation is because they don’t meet the 12 benchmark and it’s self interest. Every club from 12th onwards can ask the same but it simply won’t happen. Trinity were talking about no relegation and swapping to 14 last season in our own interests. It’s no different. The video from Broncos basically saying they want changes because they don’t make the 12 is strange to openly admit it. Nobody is winning any politics awards for that one.

Can you imaging if a club (any club) get special treatment or special criteria. It’s got legal action written all over it from the team in 13th and below who misses at expense. It’s entitlement and panic at its finest.

Entirely agree with the last two posts, also, John Wilkin has the biggest gob, he also has the sky platform & airing silly views, ie, if & a big if he got his way, who the he'll as an invested & or owner would invest in clubs outside super league if two clubs got exemption, ie London & Toulouse especially his ideas of 3 to 4 yrs ?

Got a lovely tour of the dressing rooms and other facilities within the Neil Fox stand. Really enjoyed the night and the news. Also got something confirmed but keeping my Trap shut for now.

Remembered another couple of snippets.

We are extending the TV gantry, which also earns extra IMG points.

Powell joked about taking the applause of the Wakey fans after an earlier win, who then started chanting "you Cas ba***rd".

Yeah, the Sky Gantry has to be 4m x 4m if I can remember rightly, the Cas owner was on about how they are increasing theirs to get extra points.

It's not that it gets us extra points. It's just part of the criteria for the full points for stadium.
I'm surprised it isn't already big enough but it's a simple fix to make sure we guarantee that extra point.

Yes, it's not a stand-alone criterion, but it's part of a wider score.

Extending the gantry means we meet a full, "scoring" part of that wider criteria.

Everything Ellis does now will probably be to secure any increase in IMG points guaranteed like the gantry. I suspect we will see the LED boards appear soon so they count on this seasons gradings. Ultimately, if he can spend a few hundred k upfront he should if we get into SL get some of that back with the SL money instead of championship money.

Did they give any indication as to the size of squad we are hoping to have next season?

Yes, the thing is with the LED boards is there isn't really any income to generate by them whilst we aren't on TV and as long as we get them in before October, they count towards our score regardless.

The investment on these are a lot bigger than I expected, I have a friend that works a company that supplies these throughout Europe, apparently for a singular 3m panel they are around 7k, so your looking at circa 230k just for one side of the pitch.

710k for 3 sides of a pitch does seem incredibly expensive. I’d have anticipated 250k probably for the 3 sides.

It does, I was thinking the same tbh and that around 250k figure is what I had heard thrown about. I was surprised by the figure. I'm sure Ellis will have done his homework and get food value for money if we are looking at putting them in.