That's a fair point.

Would be great if the RFL would (or even could!) confirm the role of the referee's assistant, I spend a lot of time wondering just what they are there for...

Quote EASTCOASTFC2016="EASTCOASTFC2016"Would be great if the RFL would (or even could!) confirm the role of the referee's assistant, I spend a lot of time wondering just what they are there for...'" Here you go www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/rul ... _officials

Quote EASTCOASTFC2016="EASTCOASTFC2016"Would be great if the RFL would (or even could!) confirm the role of the referee's assistant, I spend a lot of time wondering just what they are there for...'" Here you go www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/rul ... _officials

I often wonder why RL fans continually compare the state of the game with Union and Football. Two entirely different animals.

Our international game was on a high in the early 90s. We missed the boat then. We had a team competing and almost beating the Aussies. A missed tackle by Lee Jackson of all people was the difference between winning and losing a series.

Union and football can name the dates of their internationals because they have their own stadiums. The best RL stadiums (KC, Giants and Pies) are shared stadiums. That means lots of different factors to consider when booking matches, thats before the lack of capacity.
It also doesn't help that the Aussies appear not to give a hoot about the international game. Compare that to Union where it is the be all and end all for all nations.

I'm certainly not saying all is rosey, but stop with these comparisions.

Koukash wants a situation where he can do as he pleases. I was around and well remember the late 80s and early 90s when Wigan did just that. They won the lot, and the rest of us picked up the scraps. You see a similar situation with Scottish football and in all honesty most football in the world apart from England. Do we really want that? Is Koucash aware of that? I very much doubt it.

Mr Koukash has issues with things that go on at RFL don't we all, but all out war and mutiny will not progress the game before it does serious damage to the sport in this country. He needs to quit twitter and get round the table and discuss these issues without thinking he can do as he pleases.

Quote Stanley Unwin="Stanley Unwin"Here you go www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/rul ... _officials'" Nothing about offside, forward passes etc? (Unless I have missed it in the quick read I just did). Also typical RFL as it's sexist (he) and vague.

Quote Stanley Unwin="Stanley Unwin"Here you go www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/rul ... _officials'" Nothing about offside, forward passes etc? (Unless I have missed it in the quick read I just did). Also typical RFL as it's sexist (he) and vague.

He makes my teeth itch. Surely he knew what he was getting into before he bought Salford. He has clearly broke the salary cap, will probably continue to do so. His arrogant and spoilt attitude grates on me, and he has zero class. I just cannot stick the man. He has been wanting to buy the league trophy since he first bought Salford, and has failed miserably. I agree the game needs strong characters, but I've never seen anyone in professional sport behave the way he does.

its all a con this tirade,hes just trying to get the 6 points back.the mans a fool.

the rfl does need radical changes, but for god sake, not led by koukash, couldnt think of anything worse!

to advertise specsavers

Not far off the truth, more's the pity!

So long as the best team wins I can take defeat. We've had a decent run with officials so far though.

I think its great news and about time that someone has taken up the baton of trying to run our great sport in a better way.
At present RL is under-valued, under-Marketed and as a result under-sold.
Every one has seen Redhalls failings for years. We are run by Dinosaurs.

I am sure the plethora of of successful businessmen running our clubs can take SL as we know it now onto a totally new level of organisation and Marketing.
Things are better now than they've ever been, but thats not the point for me. Our rulers at Redhall are scratching the surface on what the unique value of this amazing contact sport can really be as a spectator sport and in turn maximise all income streams.

RL loses out catastrophically in the Marketing stakes. Ok RL could never match Footballs global reach but we could do an infinitely better job at targeting and selling our game to its Maximum , where at the moment we fail miserably.

As said, we do not have the Global presence of Premier League Football, but with the right Marketing this amazing game can be sold around the world. "Seeing is Believing" with our marvellous game, to watch it well presented, as is often the case with the NRL is something to behold. It is breathtaking at times. The pure strength, courage, honesty and physical prowess of the Gladiators on show is something to behold. If we can't sell that we can't sell anything!!!

RedHall amateur Marketing are NOT the benchmark in what can be achieved for our sport. Quite the contrary.

Look at some of the opposing views to the "new" Premier League when it broke away in the 1990s.
There were some dissenting voices from teams who wanted to stay with what they knew well, including Derby, Forest and QPR. The Football League themselves tried to have a injunction which would have made the creation of the (new) premier league illegal, this was overridden and now is a wonderful precedent for our game RL, and finally... Gordon Taylor of the PFA made a statement that the Football league deal would generously offer each of the 20 teams an amazing £100,000 each season of TV money if they stay !!!. That was quite a carrot at the time and made some teams reconsider their position. Fortunately they held their nerve and the the rest is history, They had the vision and bravery to see what it could be and now the returns are amazing ! significantly more than a 400 times what that carrot figure promised.

RL will not achieve those kind of unbelievable returns but we can definitely do massively better than today.

Looking back now, the Premier League today is on totally different standing, not only to what it was, but also in comparison to all other "premier Leagues of world
football".
Super League can re-invent itself too, it won't happen overnight but it can and that will happen one day. I hope its soon and that Koukash can get a strong body of men together who can also hold their nerve.

I'm sure there will be a dissenting voice from Leeds and a certain person there, where own agendas sometimes appear to me to be more important to certain people, rather than the game itself and fulfilling all the potential of where it can be.

They should go ahead without Leeds, just as they did without Derby, Forest, and QPR with the Prem breakaway. They soon jumped on board when they knew it was a goer. Nether they, nor Leeds in our case should hold back progress. Leeds too will come back to the fold should the breakaway group succeed in achieving their goal. They will have to.
The way Leeds are playing, it may be that their right of passage to automatic membership of a new elite may be by promotion from the Championship, as it has been for Burnley and Middlesbrough this season.

I say good Luck Mr Koukash go for it, and I hope Adam buys into the vision too.

There is no vision, just finger pointing and calling the RFL rubbish with no suggestion of what and how it could be better. Salford are a nothing side and have been for years.