Whether we're a Grade-A or Grade-B club, we are still a Super League club, which means that our future and the direction of travel remains in our own hands, no-one else's.

The key is to start behaving like a grown-up sporting organization, something which has been sadly absent for far too long unfortunately. The prime objective of any sporting club is on-field performance, winning matches basically! All of our other faults (as highlighted in this, admittedly flawed, system) will recede if we once more start winning a game more than once every Sheffield flood!!

It won't be easy, we are having to come from a long way back, and my suspicion is that 2025 will still be a difficult year to sit through, but we have to start the road back from somewhere.
We are probably now about as low as we can seriously afford to drop, barring a fall into complete oblivion, and so I would think our grading performance can only go back in an upwards direction again, but it really is linked to our on-field performance. I hope J. Cartwright realises the weight which will fall on his shoulders the moment his feet touch Hull terra-firma!!

Have wakefield scored more than us for performance despite finishing below us for each of the years of the measure? Clearly someone knowledgeable has come up with the criteria

I wonder if they failed on girth or length.

Wakefield got an A grade due to the 0.25 bonus points they got for winning the Championship Grand Final which is crackers.

If the club have been holding off a signing announcement then this evening might be a good time to do it.

At least people are now seeing what i have said all along that IMG are just speadsheet Charlies who have done nothing to enhance the game yet have already been paid £500000.
Its obvious to me they are not sustainable and clubs will force the RFL to act and remove them costing even more money.
Supporters are not interested in gradings its what happens on the field that counts and until someone new at the RFL comes in with some radical vision for the game like removing the salary cap and quotas to get more super stars into the UK game R/L in the UK will continue to stagnate.
We dont need every game televised that works against getting people into stadiums but what we do need is promotion and relegation.
I would even go with fourteen teams in S/L with 2 up 2 down so that there is a real incentive for building up a meaningful Championship division with automatic promotion for the Championship top team and auto relgation for the bottom two in S/L.
That way we would also have an exciting end of season Championship play off for the second promotion place unlike now which counts for nothing but an IMG tick

it wont be difficult to see an on field improvement as last season we were dire but its exciting entertaining R/L the fans want to watch but this is a team of average joes so if you want excitement you wont get it.
Dull,boring but more competitive yes

Only in RL would you be rewarded for failure

Which takes the Championship winners points slightly over the points allocated to the team finishing bottom of SL that's the incentive for the champoinship clubs and also for SL clubs to finish higher in the SL table.

Remove the salary cap and you'll end up with what they have in union with clubs overspending and going pop. The game isn't rich enough to have no spending limits.

I agree on the televising of games. I probably watched less games last year than previous years as there was so much dross on it was counter productive for me.

P&R is fine if the teams coming up offer more than the relegated teams but if you had 4 team SL with 2 P&R you'll end up with effectively what would be the current 3rd and 4th best teams in the championship coming up then the competition as a whole would be pretty poor

But ridiculous that wakefield finished lower than Hull in the 3 years the points are scored for yet ended up with more points.

Just a thought, do we move games back to Friday nights just to get the TV number up?? More casual viewers on a Friday night, yea it's a random thought but it seems this system needs a box ticket mindset

Plus the LED screen always seems to be a better quality picture at night matches. You get the cinema effect.

The points allocated for winning the championship should be set against the rest of the championship teams. Well done to Wakey but there's a reason you played in the championship last season and we are in SL. Despite the horror show over the last few years we remain a SL club. For now at least.

Yep fair point