Dave T

I mean, im perfectly happy with my involvement in RL coaching over the years. I just have no idea what it has to do with anything here. As you say, its a childish attempt to discredit views when it does nothing of the sort.

What are you.banging on about?

We've had tonnes of great RL players from outside the Heartlands. Some of them have become genuine legends of our sport. You are ignoring facts. Pretty much all of our money throughout history has been spent in the heartlands and we admitted last week we can't develop.enough players for.

Havent a clue what's going on there tbh mate. And that's a pretty good example. A far bigger club, in a far bigger sport, and most people dont have a clue what's happening.

A competent board would know who experts are.

Meh. I suppose the skill is knowing who are the real experts. If youre hanging round with the 5% it suggests they arent the experts.

100% this. Add to the fact that Salford are (at the moment) still just playing games, and have even managed to win a couple. RL fans are often too self-loathing - sports fans in all team sports have seen clubs in financial difficulties. None of this is new.

It shows how dangerous these people can be. Focus on the heartlands as we have for the last 130 years whilst accepting that the heartlands can't provide the number of players the sport needs as we increase the overseas quota to ten. If people can't see the direct link to these two things,,,

Yeah, we've done really well to hire two identikit 'leaders'.

Rhodri Jones as MD should be the mouthpiece of RL Com tbh. He is silent.

We shouldn't forget, that there is a huge list of terrible owners, who just so happen to have made money elsewhere. Would you want Koukash running RL for example? Many clubs will be run terribly by rich people over the years - and that isn't just in our sport. We can't ignore that.

This country has shown time and again that we don't value 'experts'.

I've always been a big fan of Bennett, but we can't overlook his actions on that tour.

Let's hope for Bennett and see if he experiments with Blake Austin in the wing for the Aussies, dragging their jersey into disrepute!

This para: "The clubs have told us they want sensible, coherent strategies that puts their needs at the heart of what the centre does, with a regulatory environment that actually makes life easier for the clubs that do so much to provide wonderful entertainment for all of us." Well, yeah, of course that's what the clubs want. But actually, this really shouldn't be all about the clubs needs. They come and go. And which clubs needs get met? The strategies should be all about what is best for the sport of RL in the UK. This is no more than a club-led coup. They wanted a club led review. They want club led strategies. The clubs want to lead the game. Even though they've shown time and again that they arent capable of leading the sport. The regulatory bit basically means they dont want to be held to any standards. We're back to 14 years ago when Wood's RFL scrapped licensing because the admin was hard. Grading is going.