Not unreasonable, I'd have thought.

Maybe there are some SL clubs saying they won't survive without a decent Sky deal?

AP said recently we're now over £2m in debt after 2020.

Last week - "RFU scraps Premiership relegation for 2020/21 season" - crikey, half way thru the season as well.

Suppose there's no money for the lower divisions next year - it has been suggested, then any club relegated would never survive.

There's virtually no difference now regards clubs owners/chairmen self interest and narrow mindedness than that in the late 50s onwards, that too was problematic and restrictive for the furthering and expansion of the sport. That at a time when RL used to get incredible attendances and back pages of the main papers when the tourists came or GB were going on tour. There was far more opportunity then to push the sport wider and get into the national psyche, but the chairmen had all the power just as they do now and are too idiotic as a group to fathom what they are doing is having a direct negative impact on their business.

As for Pearson stating "“Super League is the driving force of rugby league, no matter what everybody says about the Championship and the community game,”
I don't agree, without the lower divisions and community game the sport is much weaker for it and interest in the elite side of the sport would be reduced IMO. the ignorance of how elite sport is symbiotic to grass roots is frankly scary, It's hardly surprising that lower league clubs and fans get angsty regards SL.

Big clubs ruling the roost and narrow minded thinking towards progression shocker.
Plus ca change