JohnM

If the New Old Kids on the Block are going to try to get more money out of Sky, or to try to get a new TV partner, then they'll have to have enough cards in their hands. Sky will know exactly the value they are getting from their SuperLeague rights and if that value is trivial (subscriptions and ad revenue minus costs?) then they can just walk away from any quit threats from Wood . Of course, we don't know what money Sky make from SuperLeague so work needs doing there. So the RFL needs to work on a value proposition and although Wood is an accountant, maybe he needs help in creating the value proposition to put before Sky and it's competitors. If only I could find one to suggest. One that has a long term track record of success in multiple sports, across the whole world. I Must Get looking for one.

From the Beaumont Hetherington statement in League Express March 12th 2025. “The review will encompass the “whole of the game” and will solicit views from as wide a cross section as possible, engaging the views of all clubs, and to include those of our biggest assets, our partners and supporters." “It is aimed to have this work undertaken, for presentation to the RFL Council at the next scheduled meeting in July, when members will have their say on the best way forward. This is not intended to be a long drawn-out process but a prompt, transparent and effective one that delivers outcomes and produce results the game needs to achieve." It's July 1st tomorrow. Which fans have been asked for their views?

Watched Rod Stewart last night. Great show, with him, 80, Ronnie Wood 78, Lulu 76, Mick Hucknall 65.

Re the "leap of faith". I'd like to explain it in terms of "best practice" as identified by IMG because of their experience and track record across time, across geographies, across cultures and across sectors. This is something that the new RFL will never be able to match in any way if it kicks out IMG.

But I've not heard a single club express any praise or confidence in IMG in the last year to 18 months. if you were to rely on League Express content, then yes, you wouldn't have. In my day, we ancients had a saying, "Rome wasn't built lin a day." The equivalent in some rugby league circles is, "Where's that city you promised we'd all build together? After all, you've had all day to build it."

Perhaps he'd have been better saying, "Clearly I didn't agree with the ref and the video ref but I'm going to talk to the the RFL to try to understand why they reached that decision. I'm certainly not going to go into this in public, straight after the game."

Nigel Wood is tearing it up to get Bradford Bulls into SL. I firmly believe this was a condition of him taking the reins. All decided in beer-fumed back rooms somewhere sordid.

Saints, you say? Hmmmm... By the way, whatever hapened to Konrad Hurrell?

Outcome exactly as expected. Caution: Saints must not base any GF hopes and expectations on todays performance or result.

Not just "in the know" . He IS the know, one of the architects of the conclusions of the clubledwholegamestrategicreview.

. I've told you before, I was born in Manchester, brought up in Swinton in a house with electric lighting upstairs aswell as downstairs, with an inside toilet and bathroom, educated in Swinton, Salford and Oldham, lived in Cheshire and in Lincolnshire for just as long as I did in Swinton. Even did two years in Atherton and worse still, seven years or so in Yorkshire. I decide which team I will support based on what I want.

Gosh! Didn't expect that opinion from you.

It must be remembered that all this was pre-ordained by the plotters. Bradford, London to join the 12 , no matter what. Wood = Bradford, Hetherington = London

Padge playing holier than thou again. Maybe thats because he is.

Fine, or compulsory refereeing course, or anger management course, or all three?