Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:25 am  

Been announced. Meltdown.

The highlights. We’re 14th. With a decent 1.5point gap to 15th - Fev.
Cas supposedly are 13th, due to some sort of data extraction incompetence which they are crying foul about.
London are 24th, the bottom ranked B club. Wow

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:27 am  

The link to gradings on X can be viewed here: https://twitter.com/TheRFL/status/17171 ... 06/photo/1

The link to gradings on X can be viewed here: https://twitter.com/TheRFL/status/17171 ... 06/photo/1

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:28 am  

14th in the IMG table. Significant gap between top 14 and the rest. Wonder if 14 team on the cards.

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:42 am  

Yeah, I can see a 14 team Superleague here. It would be daft not to, with teams already going to the wall.

Having said that, I'm sure that the 'established' SL teams really won't want to share their slice of pie...

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:53 am  

A statement put out by Wakefield the other day mentioned that central funding for SL sides had dropped by £500k since 2019. That is a massive amount and I really don't think many clubs will want to reduce that even further by bringing another two clubs into the top division.

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:55 am  

Absolute scenes in Featherstone and Halifax’s Facebook pages

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:05 am  

Fr13daY wrote:

Yeah, I can see a 14 team Superleague here. It would be daft not to, with teams already going to the wall.

Having said that, I'm sure that the 'established' SL teams really won't want to share their slice of pie...

I seem to remember IMG's original proposals were a 14-team Super League but this voted down by the same group who want to protect their small slice of the pie.

At the time I thought IMG might have threatened to walk away from the deal as it was clear that the clubs only intention was to agree to proposals that maintained the status quo and dismiss anything that risked their own agenda. IMG failed to do so and in turn gave any power they might have had away.

Anyone can see a 14-team competition with 26 rounds (home & away) to be followed by playoffs makes the most sense from both a spectator and competition integrity perspective.

Somehow, I think the 12 will pull up the drawbridge and start looking at ways to protect themselves again.

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:45 pm  

Apparently some Fev & Fax fans have been able to count each individual fan at multiple games this year! Some meltdown.

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:51 pm  

Nothus wrote:

A statement put out by Wakefield the other day mentioned that central funding for SL sides had dropped by £500k since 2019. That is a massive amount and I really don't think many clubs will want to reduce that even further by bringing another two clubs into the top division.

But that’s how IMG get paid, isn’t it? They get 30% of all the new/increased/additional cash flow from upgraded broadcast rights and sponsorship etc.

If they can show increased corporate and broadcast income from 14 teams then that’s what they’ll push for

[Pumpetypump]

Re: IMG Grading released : Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:13 pm  

Apparently there was a line on the spreadsheet in white font with a minus 5 point tariff for "Repeated crowd disturbances, racist chanting and hammer wielding". Hopefully no one got tripped up by that.