Les Tonks Sidestep

Aberfan.....

London are not being 'relegated' because they finished bottom.. And it will effectively be a closed shop from 2025 onwards.

Their normal crowd calculation....

Another 'fault' is that too many of the criteria are effectively on/off switches rather than actual measurements of (and reward for making) steady progress.

I'd very much suggest you go and read the IMG document if you want to see the true size of the task for any club outside of SL 2025 to gain a place in the future (without one of the incumbents going belly up).

Yeah, we're likely to have 10 (a good chance of more) Grade A Clubs. Either the bar has been set too low or the game's flourished this past year.....

Blooming autocarrot.....

The hearing will be being held under essentially the same rules as an English court of law. RFL efficiency, or not, will have no bearing on the time taken for the arguments to be heard or a verdict to be reached.

I don't think that the outcomes are always announced immediately. There's also the possibility that the presiding judge(s) may want to go away and consider all the evidence that's been presented before giving a verdict.

And yet it's quite possible that there will be 10 Grade A Clubs (and several more very close) come the announcement of scores....

So they were offered to them but refused. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm sorry but just how is a Tweet showing a picture of a private jet proof that Wakefield were not offered transport costs?

TBH I was hoping the Bulls would go all the way just to see Gledhill's meltdown....

Yes. There is no franchise to sell.

Doubt it.

That was without player costs. There are plenty of other business expenses to run a club besides players' wages.

Fev's expenditure was around £800k pa (without player costs) some 6 years ago so £1m seems entirely reasonable.

Yes, and it's now 8 weeks since PH took over......

Within 14 days although, fortunately, I don't think there are any penalties for late notifications of director changes....

Schrödinger's Hunslet?

And with no opposition they've a good chance of winning enough to pull out of the relegation zone......

It's not irrelevant if the rumour that central funding for Champ and L1 clubs will be based on IMG gradings and not final league position is true. Also, on the basis of the 2023 indicative gradings Cas would have missed out on SL because Fev were in the Championship and not L1. It's a bad measure done badly.

And if Batley were to be relegated to L1 too, or one of Cas, Fev or Wake? Clubs should not be able to gain points through relegation.

Zut, quel dommage....

TBF if that happened the Bulls' board on 'the other place' will provide weeks of entertainment.