gingerjon

You say that now, you wait until that review is published. Just think how amazing it's going to be.

I predict a schism. (I don't, but it's a good phrase to fit to the song)

Bingo. I suspect the RFL have not even put out a release but whisperers are now happy to speak to client journos.

Thanks Nigel

"Reference" to the gradings and then a (to criteria that have not published as far as I know) financial and business case

The bit in bold is how it will have been done. And somewhere on this board today - not sure if it was this thread - was some comment that, for example, the accounts used by Bradford this year are unaudited.

Interesting that for two and a bit years, we had a stunning amount of discipline around stuff like this. And then Wood returns, stirs the pot, and, lo, the chickens are restless again. This is all going to end brilliantly.

This is the key bit. I mean, it is basically a crooked roulette wheel, but, even if it weren't, the perception would be that Bradford's man got Bradford into Super League. All whilst costing the RFL over a million quid and wrecking the relationship with IMG.

What role did a club chairman have in voting in IMG, voting through the grading and then as RFL head overseeing the grading process including putting forward (or not) any amendments? Yeah, he's a volunteer little bean who has done nothing at all.

Said newspaper seems to be heartily sticking the knife in as well.

Superb.

But mainly agents because they will be the ones doing the approaching.

Many Victorians really did believe in the amateur/professional divide. Hence why it also existed in football, athletics, cricket, Olympic sports etc. Heck, even Torville and Dean were 'banned' from the Olympics for eight years because they went pro. But, yes, also about protecting union. But the perspective was broader than just rugby league.

It's a shot across the bow to agents.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/welsh-handball-pel-law-nelson