O/T BARLA & RFL to go to war again? : Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:54 pm
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http://www.barla.org.uk/News/Details.asp?id=1933
Barla have got the solicitors involved. Looks like they are going down fighting. (a)that the RFL is not the appropriate organisation for governing amateur rugby league as it is primarily a commercial organisation influenced by its commercial partners in particular BSkyB; (b)that the RLF is not interested in grass roots rugby but rather seeks to control the amateur game as a feeder to the professional game and that the RFL has a policy that encourages elitism which is a fundamental concept that BARLA strives to avoid. You will appreciate that BARLA remains of the opinion that it is the appropriate organisation to govern and control amateur rugby league. BARLA was created due to dissatisfaction with the manner in which the amateur game was being run by the RFL. BARLA has always considered itself to be acting in the best interest of a body of community amateur sports clubs and leagues serving their local communities. BARLA for me is a disorganized rabble which has a load of people who are only interested in themselves rather than the game. The County games last season be a good example where there was falling out with each other left right and centre! And the way the Yorkshire League is run for one and the way teams like Queens are not punished for the behaviour. And the RFL have done a great deal of good with things like Child Protection and the Summer League is growing each year yet BARLA often refuses to work properly with the rest of the game. Its tours have had a number of incidents like last year in Italy and couple of years before in Australia where players went out of control and got sent home!! For me there should only be one organization running the game and I hope BARLA dies and the sport is united under one umbrella. They also fail to see that they would get NO money from Sport England if they split plus would lose out on many other things. By splitting again I see the amateur game going backwards even more as BARLA seems full of people who have no interest in developing the game properly but to get what they want at the expense of the game as a whole. |
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http://www.barla.org.uk/News/Details.asp?id=1933
Barla have got the solicitors involved. Looks like they are going down fighting. (a)that the RFL is not the appropriate organisation for governing amateur rugby league as it is primarily a commercial organisation influenced by its commercial partners in particular BSkyB; (b)that the RLF is not interested in grass roots rugby but rather seeks to control the amateur game as a feeder to the professional game and that the RFL has a policy that encourages elitism which is a fundamental concept that BARLA strives to avoid. You will appreciate that BARLA remains of the opinion that it is the appropriate organisation to govern and control amateur rugby league. BARLA was created due to dissatisfaction with the manner in which the amateur game was being run by the RFL. BARLA has always considered itself to be acting in the best interest of a body of community amateur sports clubs and leagues serving their local communities. BARLA for me is a disorganized rabble which has a load of people who are only interested in themselves rather than the game. The County games last season be a good example where there was falling out with each other left right and centre! And the way the Yorkshire League is run for one and the way teams like Queens are not punished for the behaviour. And the RFL have done a great deal of good with things like Child Protection and the Summer League is growing each year yet BARLA often refuses to work properly with the rest of the game. Its tours have had a number of incidents like last year in Italy and couple of years before in Australia where players went out of control and got sent home!! For me there should only be one organization running the game and I hope BARLA dies and the sport is united under one umbrella. They also fail to see that they would get NO money from Sport England if they split plus would lose out on many other things. By splitting again I see the amateur game going backwards even more as BARLA seems full of people who have no interest in developing the game properly but to get what they want at the expense of the game as a whole. |
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