FC Callum wrote:
As far as grading with promotion and relegation goes, the Batley owners idea sounds one of the better ones.
It helps give the Championship clubs the dream that they can still make it to SL but downside is it probably encourages boom or bust spending again and also highly likely the spell in SL would be over after 1 year and then the successful squad dispands (such as London having barely anyone left now)
For me this IMG thing has served a short term purpose of giving clubs a rocket to sort their facilities out. Some things such as the state of Belle Vue should have been sorted 20 years ago...but that's about the only success so far and I fear at the end of seasons we are going to see articles full of stats and what ifs rather than people actually talking about the rugby
