Dragons confirm they have to pay next year

[ATLANTISMAN]

Speaking to officialdom tonight at the Dragons looks like they have 100% been told they have to pay all the away teams travel expenses from next season.

I am speechless:(

 

 

[Phil]

Scandalous, ffs  

[Dave T]

This has never come up before. 

[The Future is League]

Is this down to the RFL or Super League clubs?

If clubs can't afford a once a year trip to France to play for competition points they really shouldn't be in Super League

[Damien]

This was revealed some months ago:

 

[The Future is League]

17 minutes ago, Damien said:

This was revealed some months ago:

 

After over 60 years being invovled in the game at different levels might interest in it is waning by the day with the way its being run.

[Rowan]

That's the thing about Super League (Europe) if that is still its grandiose title - if any club comes from Europe they are made about as welcome as an attack of flu.

[Anita Bath]

Are IMGs fingerprints on this?

And if a french team apply for entry to league 1?

Why stop at France. Gateshead and Cornwall are a long way from the M62. Lets charge them as well.

Oh for the days of David Oxley

[Tommygilf]

9 minutes ago, Rowan said:

That's the thing about Super League (Europe) if that is still its grandiose title - if any club comes from Europe they are made about as welcome as an attack of flu.

Quite. Indeed anyone outside the M62/North - see Cornwall.

Its a regional English League. Pretending otherwise is silly frankly from an administrative POV. Till that changes (either with central direction or without it), then we'll be sat here having the same conversations on repeat.

[Tommygilf]

1 minute ago, Anita Bath said:

Are IMGs fingerprints on this?

And if a french team apply for entry to league 1?

Why stop at France. Gateshead and Cornwall are a long way from the M62. Lets charge them as well.

Oh for the days of David Oxley

IMG have, tbf, said the French teams need to pull their weight. However I also think they are savvy enough to know that no French broadcaster will commit to RL without guaranteed French participation. I think they are solving 2 issues therefore.

We didn't play Cornwall in the 1895 cup because Championship clubs said it would cost too much money.

[bratman]

2 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Speaking to officialdom tonight at the Dragons looks like they have 100% been told they have to pay all the away teams travel expenses from next season.

I am speechless:(

Insane

[sam4731]

Catalans response to this should be:

Ok we'll pay for your travelling expenses but we'll decide how you travel though.

[JohnM]

Not a bike, but maybe a pony and trap since it rhymes with ****.

This is an outrageous proposal and surely must be defeated.

[Liverpool Rover]

37 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

IMG have, tbf, said the French teams need to pull their weight. However I also think they are savvy enough to know that no French broadcaster will commit to RL without guaranteed French participation. I think they are solving 2 issues therefore.

We didn't play Cornwall in the 1895 cup because Championship clubs said it would cost too much money.

Do Northern clubs think that Perpignan and Cornwall are hundreds of miles away while at the same time Perpignan and Cornwall are only ten miles down the road from the M62? It should be pointed out that if the Dragons and Cornwall can find the money to make the journey every other week then they can find the money for two or trips a year.

[Hopie]

If teams in the lower leagues have to pay, so should teams in the top league, or nobody should, this closes an imbalance.

Catalans will pay because the Super League is the only game in town (the town being Europe) and without RFL organised competitions there wouldn't be much point in them being a pro team.

It is what it is, but if I thought the money saved by the English clubs would be spent on something worthwhile I'd be happier about it.

[Sports Prophet]

4 hours ago, The Future is League said:

After over 60 years being invovled in the game at different levels might interest in it is waning by the day with the way it’s being run.

Take a break old fella  

 

29 minutes ago, Hopie said:

It is what it is, but if I thought the money saved by the English clubs would be spent on something worthwhile I'd be happier about it.

Yep. This is penny pinching and cannibalisation at its finest.

If only clubs and SL collectively focused their energy on generating more income instead of haemorrhaging itself, we might start seeing the sport grow.

And to think many on this forum think the NRL would be a poor replacement governor for the professional RL in Europe?

Edited May 25 by Sports Prophet

[Damien]

7 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Take a break old fella  

 

Yep. This is penny pinching and cannibalisation at its finest.

If only clubs and SL collectively focused their energy on generating more income instead of haemorrhaging itself, we might start seeing the sport grow.

And to think many on this forum think the NRL would be a poor replacement governor for the professional RL in Europe?

Australian RL has a long history of charging expansion clubs for travel too.

[Sports Prophet]

10 minutes ago, Damien said:

Australian RL has a long history of charging expansion clubs for travel too.

Does it happen today Damien? I wouldn’t say it’s a “long” history either, unless you mean a “long time ago”.

Edited May 25 by Sports Prophet

[Damien]

1 minute ago, Sports Prophet said:

Does it happen today Damien?

Don't know, it's decades since we've had a proper expansion club. Not sure what happens with the Warriors these days.

[Sports Prophet]

11 minutes ago, Damien said:

Don't know, it's decades since we've had a proper expansion club. Not sure what happens with the Warriors these days.

So, not a “long history” then and not even recent?

Edited May 26 by Sports Prophet

[Worzel]

To be honest I’m surprised the small-minded, groupthink idiocracy of rugby league leaders and trade press editors from West Yorkshire haven’t considered making the Hull clubs pay other clubs’ petrol money too, as it’s a little too far along the M62 and we said we wanted to be in their comp so it’s only fair we cover the other teams’ extra costs of our existence.

Truly the lunatics have taken over the asylum. They’ve picked rugby league execs from the same, small gene pool for so long that it’s a bit like all the inter-breeding in the Mississippi delta in Deliverance… next thing you know your third cousin is playing the banjo and eyeing up Burt Reynolds. 
 

 

[Damien]

5 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

So, not a “long history” then?

Well yes when it comes to expansion clubs. The NRL haven't admitted an expansion club for decades so there is no recent history there.

Let's not hold up Australian Rugby League to be paragon of virtue here when they've done exactly the same thing and killed clubs as a result.

I think what is being done to Catalans is wrong too.

[Sports Prophet]

57 minutes ago, Damien said:

Well yes when it comes to expansion clubs. The NRL haven't admitted an expansion club for decades so there is no recent history there.

Let's not hold up Australian Rugby League to be paragon of virtue here when they've done exactly the same thing and killed clubs as a result.

I think what is being done to Catalans is wrong too.

Love an argument don’t you  

which expansion clubs are you referring to?

NRL expansion was as little as under two years ago. The Dolphins are not responsible for travel costs of visiting teams. Neither are Warriors, Storm, Broncos, Titans, Cowboys, Newcastle or Canberra.

So contrary to your point, I would say the NRL has a very, very, very long history of not charging travel costs to expansion clubs and certainly no history of taking that step 19 years after the expanded club was admitted to the competition.

Digression aside, we both agree the decision/actions of SL today on this matter is wrong.

Edited May 26 by Sports Prophet

[Ste93]

I think it's fine as long as the English super league clubs pay for the Dragons travel expenses.... 

[Pulga]

SL doesn't deserve Catalans.