The biggest changes at P&O have been happening over the last 10 years. There are hardly any local lads working on there now anyway. My dad was made redundant by them a few years ago.

Why would a lower cap be bad for the sport? If players earned 60 grand a year instead of 100 grand would it diminish the sport in any way? we may lose a small number of players to RU but that would be it. Players would just earn less (as they did for the previous 100 years of the game). The money just goes straight into the pockets of players and agents

To play devils advocate again, why should we even need a cap? Why shouldnt clubs be able to run themselves properly as other businesses have to, within their means?

Remind me again who went to the RFL first, therefore they made the money available to all clubs?

Reason number 1 ......

Wigan circa 1990's

I'm still interested to hear where the P&O facts have come from? Cant see any reference to them in the press.

If it were that our sponsorship did go t*ts up we have set a sustainable business up with multi-channel income anyway so i wouldnt be overly concerned. I'm more concerned for the employees that work at he companies struggling in the current climate.

Fair point. You still want it to be attractive to promising youngsters and have to remember that it is a short career based on 1, 2 and 3 year contracts. If the quota came down to 3 at the same time, that could mitigate some of the negative impacts.

A return to 12 teams would mean an extra £200k for each of those remaining... but a bleak future for those dropping out - or the prospect of mergers. Squads of 24 and just 3 players on the interchange bench could be considered, for the domestic game.

Because sport is fundamentally different to other businesses in that you need to maintain your competition. And also the aim for many involved in BODs is glory not profits. One benefactor, richer than all the rest, could bankroll whole decades of dominance while interest withers elsewhere. Even the ultra-capatilist USA recognizes that.

MERGERS



oh dear oh dear...but it may be only way in some cases, when the hits the fan

Not an issue for Soccer though, the worlds biggest sport!

It was Hull unless of course you have a link to prove otherwise.

Hull's "operating model" appears to require having a large number of fans and then doing everything possible to alienate them.

Do Hull make a profit because of the board or in spite of them?