Derek's outburst is purely down to him genuinly worrying about being relegated himself in my opinion.
Based on the provisional gradings posted previously Leigh are in 12th and face a real threat of being relegated. I don't think they will, as they will gain a few points based on league position, but I haven't seen much of what they're doing off-field to help boost their points. It may be a lot, it may be close to nothing, I have no idea. Wakey's grading will likely improve now their new stand is open and with the signings they've made must be confident they will secure a SL place, so I wouldn't be suprised to see them stay above Leigh.
I've seen Cas have done a few easy wins with things such as seating and a big screen. Combined with new investment will probably be a boost to their financial grading. Wakefield also seem to be improving
Derek probably wants London to finish 11th because they're down anyway, then trying to (ridiculously) guilt Hull into taking voluntary relegation after finishing bottom (which is laughable he even made that suggestion) so that it leaves 2 spaces in SL and gives Leigh a better chance of staying there.

I went through a period of liking Beaumont last year, he really grew on me, now he's going back to his attention seeking rants I'm starting to look forward to the prospect of Leigh back in the championship.

Anyway, look forward to Cokey ripping my post apart.

It should be 14 teams play each other twice plus Magic and get rid of the loop fixtures. We've played Warrington three times already but haven't played Salford or Wigan yet. I'd also introduce the Yorkshire and Lancashire cup as pre season trophies, 16 in each up to the clubs how serious they take it but majority of the time we play Yorkshire clubs in pre season anyways.

Scheduling is something they need to look at, we also played Leeds twice in a row at home. Know it's hard to get it completely even with stadiums having pitch work derby games needing to be at Easter etc but surely having teams play each other once each 'half' of a season isn't that hard.

Also on the broadcasting lowlights include the BBC showing a semi against the Premier League final day (even 2 hours earlier kickoff would have helped there) this weekend they've out put an England game on against the Euros and that's probably a factor in not getting it on TV (Friday night is a night off for the Euros) Hard to avoid every event I know but the game needs to get sharper at it

A celebration of 90 years of RL in France and it plays second fiddle to a championship game .

The Thursday before the Euros began there was no sport on TV, a super League game then would have drawn in the viewers, instead they scheduled 3 at once on the Friday, clashing with the opening game of the euros. Definitely need to be smarter with the scheduling and stagger kick off times more.

Is anyone familiar at all with rugby league seriously expecting the empty blazers at RFL HQ (or the self-interested blowhards of SL for that matter) to apply common sense after all these decades?

The game has been in its death throes for a long time now, and all they ever do is rearrange the Titanic's deck chairs one more time: IMG is merely the latest manifestation.