Re: IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025 : Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:54 pm  

just_browny wrote:

I think the LED it is referring to would be the LED advertising boards round the pitch and that the experience being added to is probably the ability for the league to make a few bob from the ads coming up in decent quality on TV (vs e.g. Bob's Pie Shop on a bit of card). Not the most important thing in the world but then it is only worth an eighth of a point.

That makes more sense. Cheers.

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Re: IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025 : Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:07 am  

Championship club A gets a sugar Daddy, spends on decent players, finishes unbeaten at the top of the Championship, is promoted to SL, quickly buys up all the SL reject players at the back end of the year and........ gets relegated the next season. All to generate some ' jeopardy' and interest in a couple of games at the end of the season.It all seems very short sighted and wasteful of the few wealthy businessmen that are willing to fund and support our game. At least this system looks to ensure that we look at many more factors before a club is promoted, so I think its a move in the right direction. If I was cynical I might think it was a way of ensuring clubs like Toulouse get to stay in SL ( which I would agree with btw)

Re: IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025 : Fri Mar 10, 2023 12:36 pm  

Another meeting of all the clubs yet before it’s decided to go with this proposal. We all know that for as long as we can remember clubs have been run to serve their own self interest, I’m not yet convinced this will get off the ground unless they finally understand that the sport will die without change.