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If as much effort was put into, "how do we generate more money" the game would be in rude health.

Your original post suggested an investor is only interested in a team that can get promotion in one year. I questioned whether that's the sort of investment that would add value and sustainability to the sport.

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I believe 4 years works best at it will run parallel with a world cup cycle. Other sports think/operate in terms of the next world cup, I don't think RL should be any different. Every team would need to meet a minimum standard to even be eligible for SL. E.g Bradford Bulls could win the Championship every year but until we sort our pitch out we wouldn't qualify for SL. The 4 year cycle demonstrates which clubs can support a competitive team consistently thus proving a sustainable model. Many clubs have gone form boom to bust and owners have also come and gone in that time frame. You could go as high as 4 teams promoted after 4 years, which would be the equivalent of yearly P&R. 1 team promoted in 3 years is too little mobility between leagues in my opinion. 3-4 teams in four years creates genuine jeopardy for SL and a great incentive for Championship clubs. This system is a compromise of 2 systems. P&R on its own is too unreliable and unfair. Licensing feels too sterile and undeserved. Combine them together we might have something.

Put this on here and not NRL club news because I thought it`s evidence of the further development of Rugby League in Fiji and the continued development of that countries depth. Fijian Rugby Sevens duo to join Cowboys for 2022 season - Cowboys A Tokyo Olympic Gold Medallist and fellow Fijian Rugby Sevens star are set to join the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys for the 2022 NRL season. One`s a back and the other a forward with the latter looking like a real handful, both will train with the Cowboys first grade squad but will be available to play for one of the Cowboys three feeder clubs as they make their League transition.

That's not really what he is saying, not getting promotion in the first year doesn't mean someone may walk away. However not being able to get promotion for 4 years, or even 5 or 6 possibly, isn't a particularly appealing proposition. We need investors full stop and make things much too difficult by putting obstacles in their way. Its only in Rugby League that fans seemingly require a purity test for everything an owner does, whether that is not being allowed to buy success or castigating new clubs for not having a squad full of players born with 5 miles of the ground. With the salary cap and its exemptions one approach is allowed, an approach which is heavily skewed and weighted towards the existing status quo and especially the big clubs, and that's it. Other sports don't look at things that way and welcome money being invested. In RL its usually just fear of their own particular club being overtaken or relegated that leads some RL fans to think like that.

If an investor is only interested in gaining promotion in year one or walking away are they a good investee anyway? Don't we want longer term investors?

Been a bit of a while since I've given an update on my progress through the Aubrey-Maturin series. There's only two I need to find now before I've got the whole set. I might just take the easy option and buy them off amazon though they are numbers 15 and 20 so I've got ages to go before I need either of them. I've read the first 4 now. Would have read more but been a bit busy recently. So number 5 next, Desolation Island. I think the thing I'm finding so captivating about them is how well developed the characters are and how they are so seemlessly slipped into real life events. I'm finding out so much about the Napoleonic Wars by reading these stories because something I didn't realise before starting to read them was how most of the battles and actions that take place in the novels were real life events even down to the random small skirmishes that take place let alone the massive campaigns. I knew nothing of the Mauritius campaign before reading The Mauritius Command but it enticed me to look into it further and it was fascinating. What makes the books even more glorious is the detail O'Brien goes into when describing the events and moulding the characters into them and evidently just how much research he must have done to get every detail right. The work that has been put into constructing these books is just earth shattering.

And vice versa - sort of.

Problem is a team like Leigh for example have a bad first year, slowly improve, build up something, and in year 4 really have got something, but overall are in bottom three because of poor years 1 and 2 so are relegated. A waste of four years building, so a no for me.

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