Stevos Barber

At least the weather there is more like Queensland!

For anyone wanting to put a face to a name I'm the guy with his arms out to the right of Roary in the montage

Thanks for your time Adam. Hope you enjoyed your time as much as we enjoyed watching you

If only York, or preferably, Toulouse finished bottom we could have avoided this. The RFL's favourite club would have been safe and London's official crowd figures obtained from the Pie and Mash stall could have been used for the IMG score

I think it's honest and heartfelt. If someone is giving inflated figures it is ridiculous. I suspect the specific match TF was alluding to was towards the end of the season and most Oldham fans there were stunned by a crowd figure of over 2000

I hope the situation will change if the NRL bid gets serious. London cannot stay in the Championship as a full time club with the overseas players that they have. Please promote them. Their being in Championship is damaging to other clubs. Knowing that you are going to be put to the sword isn't going to attract fans to the game, probably the opposite. Total farce.

Or even, with the RFL, half way through the season

You can vote now on the club website https://roughyeds.co.uk/news/vote-for-your-player-of-the-year/

If clubs become feeders then they will be effectively full time and, in my opinion, should play in the reserve league. As far as breaking away it would be suicide. We don't get much from Sky/SL but who would sponsor the Championship? What's the average crowd across the league? 800? Less? Try to find a sponsor or, even less likely, a broadcaster who would be interested in that? We don't have the kind of "names" that broke away to form the PDC. I have said it before but if we had backing from Eddie Hearne and Matchroom or a new Rupert Murdoch then yes but without it no chance I'd love to see all the fans at Championship come together and march on the RFL demanding action. Big banners saying "where were Wakefield two years ago?" " Remember Gareths Golden Point?" "Trin vs Cas...every minute counts!" Letters to your MP, Lisa Nandy and Andy Burnham asking them to enquire of the RFL how they intend to support communities like, Halifax, Batley, Featherstone and Oldham.

It would make for a very interesting off season if, unlikely as it is, London don't go up. Would they be given an exemption from the overseas quota and salary cap?

Now if you could get the Hearns to back and promote it....

I knew there was a flaw in my proposal. Too big to fit on a fag packet!

Far too sensible. Straight into the bin

I've been thinking of a format for the Championship for next season. In the interests of sustainability and expansion any club whose home ground is more than 110 miles from Rishworth Moor (the mid point of the M62) should play all of its matches at home. The league should be played in groups with Barrow, Whitehaven and Workington put in the same group as London. Salford, Widnes and Oldham grouped with Newcastle. I'll work the other groups out later. Promotion to SuperLeague will be on IMG points only. Some changes to IMG points including the catchment area for a club is the whole area in the clubs name ie London or Newcastle will gain up to 5 points. Points will also be given for average gates. If a club does not have a car park then 10% of the catchment figure will be added to the average gate to cover fans that would have gone were it not for the difficulty of parking. To make an even number in SuperLeague one team will have to drop out so any team promoted since the beginning of the 2025 season without full funding will lose 10 IMG points if they haven't won the Grand Final by the end of the 2027 season. If more than one club are in the position the club to be relegated will be the one with the lowest Scrabble score in its full team name. Obviously I need to refine some more details but I think this should get the results that the RFL are after. What do you guys think? Shall I send them to the RFL?