Roughyed Rats

Clearly there have been personnel changes to both teams in the last 12 months, so not too much of a stretch to consider a a game this season is a better yardstick.

If you get through, Wakefield have a larger away following than Salford anyway. Good luck.

Personally, I wanted one of the SL teams, but this does give us a good chance of progressing and to gauge where we are at against another Championship side

Game called off. The club are working with Rochdale to find an alternative date.

I think it dates back to some time before 2021.

The deal going up or down is of minimal significance to clubs outside the top flight as we don't see hardly any of it anyway, and we are not naïve enough to believe that will change.

Your right. Oldham should be eternally grateful for the £32k combined they have got over the last two seasons

Not sure of your point. I'm sure there is investment in their own competitions but they are run completely separately and have no relevance to EuroLeague. If SL went to franchising and completely left the RFL would be a similar analogy. I'm sure there would be some investment into teams competing in a semi-pro competition.

That would be true if those revenues were 'invested in all layers of the game' but they are not and they never will be as the elite will always look after themselves. The current system is a halfway house between P&R and licensing and just won't work. Personally, I'd have no problem letting the elite go it alone to 'grow the game' and let the remaining clubs go their own way.

It's franchising. There is no investment in the teams lower. Their leagues were cut off completely.

It's licensing. There are 12 permanent licenses and 6 annual franchise licenses. Automatic P&R was scrapped just 3.5 years into a 10 year deal with IMG.

Exactly. Works great in a pure franchise environment but not the halfway house system we currently have. IMG went through this process with European Basketball and it didn't take long before their original grading system was abandoned and closed-shop franchising introduced. Sadly, we've been down that road once before.

Merry Christmas John

My post was a factual statement. Nothing else. No opinion expressed but you read into it whatever fits your agenda. Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me

Let's hope so