They can't award any funding until they know the final positions! If they awarded Sheffield the funding for next season based on them finishing 3rd in the Championship regular rounds and then Sheff went on to be promoted to SL in the 8's it wouldn't work. If you manage to go up this year you would need SL funding for next year!

I understand,obviously,that the 4 Super League sides,ie those finishing in the top 4 of the Qualifiers,are awarded funding next year.

I was of the opinion that Sheffield Eagles were awarded payment for next year,as a result of finishing 3rd in the regular season.

My question is - does a club finishing 6th in the Qualifiers receive funding,and more of it,than a club finishing 7th or 8th and bottom of the Qualifiers? If so,where was it mentioned that this was the situation?

The truth is I don't know but that could be the case, for example If Wakefield were to finish 6th in the middle 8's they would be relegated so I assume they wouldn't get the SL funding for next season but instead get funding for the championship! If this is the case would they receive the funding equivalent to finishing 2nd in the Championship? Do they get parachute payments anymore?? Similarly if Sheffield finished 5th in the middle 8's and played in the million pound game but lost, just missing out on a SL place, would they qualify for the top funding in the championship? Doesn't seem straight forward! It's hard to find any official confirmation of this.

No, it's all based on the division 1½ results.

Top three + the MPG winner get $uperleague level funding.

Bottom three + the MPG loser get Championship grade funding.

Don't forget - this isn't prize money for 2015, it's funding for 2016. It needs to be appropriate to where you'll be in 2016.

There is no money for finishing second in the Championship. They'd get the money for finishing sixth in the Qualifiers.

I did think that finishing 3rd in the regular season was rewarded immediately hence the announcement of going full time for 2016.

Anyhow -
Sheffield Eagles Squad
Togagae, Turner, Yere, Smeaton, Worrincy, Brambani, Aston, Battye, Carlile, Stringer, Knowles, Straughier, Taulapapa, Walker, Petersen, Davies, Davey, Tonks, Scott.
Halifax RLFC Squad
Ambler, Bracek, Cahalane, Divorty, Fairbank, Heaton, Johnston, Kaye, Maneely, Manning, Moore, Murrell, Potts, A. Robinson, C. Robinson, Saltonstall, Saxton, Tangata, Tyrer.

Still no Langley.Pleased Petersen back in.

Desire and determination for 80 minutes and plenty of noise from the home supporters.

Depends what you mean by "rewarded immediately". Anyone in the Middle Eight gets a lot more than anyone in the Also Ran Eight. But not until 2016.

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Betting Update
The bookies have us as favourites but only just by 2 Points I expect it to be close I have stated previously that I expected Halifax to be favourites because they have been playing better than us in recent weeks pity it is in Doncaster and not Sheffield.

Leigh have a must win game at home to Wakefield before the middle 8's a lot of people would have Leigh as favourites for this game however last weeks result has changed the odds still quite tempted by Leigh recieving 6 points back at home where they played well against Hull KR

Bradford are playing Salford who have been playing well in the middle 8's however Bradford are difficult to beat at home in front of a large crowd Salford should win but the bookies have them as 12 point favourites I quite fancy Bradford to cover the spread

On the Plastic Widnes should continue their winning run against Hull KR but 12 points is quite a high handicap

Nothing wrong with Plastic, duggs.

Although ours will be better grade 4G plastic, apparently. Widnes only have an Aye-pitch.

Eagles Edge Qualifiers Thriller - wp.me/p3JxPK-zg I thought Halifax were more than six points better than us in the first half, we just didn't meet them in the collision at all and they made big yards with every carry. However, I was very glad with our second half performance despite some dodgy offloading decisions here and there. Pat Walker and Misi Taulapapa were my standout performers for us today, both were immense. Really happy the lads proved me wrong and got their first points on the Qualifiers board. Looking forward to our trip to Leigh in two weeks time, need to right a lot of wrongs from our last visit there. It will also be the last game I cover on social media for Sheffield (for the time being anyway..) as I'm moving up to Sunderland on the following Saturday.

Eagles Edge Qualifiers Thriller - wp.me/p3JxPK-zg I thought Halifax were more than six points better than us in the first half, we just didn't meet them in the collision at all and they made big yards with every carry. However, I was very glad with our second half performance despite some dodgy offloading decisions here and there. Pat Walker and Misi Taulapapa were my standout performers for us today, both were immense. Really happy the lads proved me wrong and got their first points on the Qualifiers board. Looking forward to our trip to Leigh in two weeks time, need to right a lot of wrongs from our last visit there. It will also be the last game I cover on social media for Sheffield (for the time being anyway..) as I'm moving up to Sunderland on the following Saturday.

Thanks Atomic. Will still be doing bits and bobs for the Eagles from afar but obviously not as much.

Will keep my hand in RL by going to Newcastle Thunder matches!

I can't recall seeing so many errors on the first and second tackle.I was going to write,'for a long time',but it is 'ever'.
I think our completion rate,in the first half,was about as high as the number of points Leigh have scored in the second half of their home 'qualifiers' games.
Still,weather conditions taken into consideration - allowing Murrel to play in a dinner jacket - improving in the second half again - demonstrating that work does take place on the training field with another pin-point accurate kick for try-scorer to clutch and score;this time to the right while at Widnes to the left,made for an exciting game (finish) which deserved far more through the turnstiles.

Really pleased for the benefactors,sponsors,coaching staff,players and supporters.Really sets up the remaining games.

I was going to do my ironic #Don'tSackRowley song,pinched from a song sung by Sunderland people,with the 'Yorkshire conspiracy' nonsense in mind.But,having read a Leigh follower suggesting the Salford defeat yesterday was due to *Hockgate* then obviously the conspiracy theorists of Leigh may have spoilt it.( I'll try my hand at Facebook....it's worth waiting for )

Well done players.Great spirit.* Only thing that spoiled it was the very late hit,well after the ball had gone - when Richie Moore tried to break Scott Turner in half.Not nice and presumably not seen by any official.*

Four players charged in Super 8s - www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/32 ... d-in-super Scott Turner, or Taylor as the RFL like to call him, has received a formal caution.

Four players charged in Super 8s - www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/32 ... d-in-super Scott Turner, or Taylor as the RFL like to call him, has received a formal caution.