Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:58 pm  

mapleyther wrote:

More genius. Tell me how Bradford have not been reliant on RFL (Sky) funding for the last decade and more, plus being bent over backwards for to keep them afloat.

And the old chestnut about average attendances. How many would Bradford get after a decade playing Dewsbury, York and Doncaster? How many would Leigh get after a decade of playing in SL? Who knows but I bet the gap would be closer.

Whichever 12 teams are in SL you will have 6 strong ones and 6 "mediocre" ones. Why should those mediocre teams not be Leigh, Fax or Fev rather than Cas, Wakey or London?

How is replacing one mediocre team with another any sort of progression? If, the sum total of the aspirations of clubs outside of the super league is to "do as well as Bradford are currently" where's the point of interchanging them?

I disagree, we were getting to a point where by we had a very strong league with 9 - 10 teams challenging for a playoff place. 2 teams slowly building towards being competitive sustainably and the remaining 2 - 3 who should of been kicked out.

The biggest losers in this in my opinion are Widnes. You can see that they're not just frantically rushing to becoming a play off team, they're slowly building, working on their youth teams and development (there's one or two looking promising already - Lawton(?) springs to mind) to be sustainable quality team for the competition, hull kr seem to have done so quite successfully, and the path castleford have started to take - now there going to have to throw all that out, desperately throw everything into becoming a top 8 side so they can grab the biggest slice of the pie, else be left behind, and all for what? So a team in the championship can aspire to be as mediocre and bad as a team that should of been kicked out in the first place?

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:00 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

How is replacing one mediocre team with another any sort of progression? If, the sum total of the aspirations of clubs outside of the super league is to "do as well as Bradford are currently" where's the point of interchanging them?

I disagree, we were getting to a point where by we had a very strong league with 9 - 10 teams challenging for a playoff place. 2 teams slowly building towards being competitive sustainably and the remaining 2 - 3 who should of been kicked out.

The biggest losers in this in my opinion are Widnes. You can see that they're not just frantically rushing to becoming a play off team, they're slowly building, working on their youth teams and development (there's one or two looking promising already - Lawton(?) springs to mind) to be sustainable quality team for the competition, hull kr seem to have done so quite successfully, and the path castleford have started to take - now there going to have to throw all that out, desperately throw everything into becoming a top 8 side so they can grab the biggest slice of the pie, else be left behind, and all for what? So a team in the championship can aspire to be as mediocre and bad as a team that should of been kicked out in the first place?

Well said

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:11 pm  

To quote mr bob Dylan " the times they are a changing"
So either shape up or ship out this is gonna sort out the argument who should be in and who shouldn't once and for all and some great games along the way.
Bring it on I can't wait .

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:25 pm  

Fev 1979 wrote:

To quote mr bob Dylan " the times they are a changing"
So either shape up or ship out this is gonna sort out the argument who should be in and who shouldn't once and for all and some great games along the way.
Bring it on I can't wait .

Totally agree, we will all have to put up with this for a few years. However it should prove once and forever that in order to grow we should ditch little village teams so clubs with realistic potential can take the game forward

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:36 pm  

jack in the box wrote:

Totally agree, we will all have to put up with this for a few years. However it should prove once and forever that in order to grow we should ditch little village teams so clubs with realistic potential can take the game forward

Who said owt bout ditching the village teams?
Many are run better than the so called big boys.
Let's see how it goes, from what I'm reading on forums one club is making more noise about been unhappy with it than any other because they know they wIll struggle.
Guess who?

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:40 pm  

Fev 1979 wrote:

Who said owt bout ditching the village teams?
Many are run better than the so called big boys.
Let's see how it goes, from what I'm reading on forums one club is making more noise about been unhappy with it than any other because they know they wIll struggle.
Guess who?

who?

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:42 pm  

dubairl wrote:

who?

Unless I'm missing summat the post above my last one..

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:44 pm  

whats fans of which club are making the most noise?

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:50 pm  

dubairl wrote:

whats fans of which club are making the most noise?

That's us without a doubt.
We were booted out in 1996 not relegated to make way for psg we have kept going and plodding on now I think we deserve at least a chance.
But to some that doesn't matter,the change is happenig it's up to the clubs and fans how they take it

Re: Today's big decision : Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:51 pm  

dubairl wrote:

whats fans of which club are making the most noise?

I'm more intrigued by which village team is better run than saints wigan Leeds Huddersfield and Warrington (or big boys as he put it)