: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:55 pm  

Big Picture wrote:

Do you mean to suggest you'd be happy seeing RL fall behnd other sports financially and lack the means to hold onto its' best players?

i think he did

Re: Which clubs should be added to Super League in 2012 + 20 : Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm  

Alice's Phallus wrote:

and sometimes I am very serious.

Tis true. I recall recently having a sensible conversation on a thread with you last week. It was a refreshing change from the norm, although i did think that i'd ingested some mind altering drugs

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:58 pm  

The RFL has made clear it can add numbers to Super League as well as subtract. But it almost certainly doesn't want an odd number total left because it doesn't want byes every week. Odd numbers means one club has at least one week when it is not earning gate money. Even numbers mean every club is making gate money every week.

So unless the RFL is planning to subtract one or three clubs from SL in 2012, expect an even number, almost certainly two, to be added in the 2011 decisions.

But remember as I said at the beginning, Richard Lewis/the RFL announced last year that in future there is no limit on the number of clubs that can be admitted to Super League each franchise decision year. That is why I was asking the fans: if you had the realistically optimum number of additional clubs over the next two rounds of licenses, who would you like to see have a license, from both Anglo Celts and continentals, up to a maximum of six?

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:00 pm  

bluesox4evaaa wrote:

IF BEING IN SUPER LEAGUE IS ONLY ABOUT TV DEALS AND SPONSORSHIPS YOU CAN STICK IT UP YOUR A**E

Believe it or not, professional sport is a business and businesses require money to function!

If you didn't want it to be about money, you wouldn't support a professional team.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:02 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Believe it or not, professional sport is a business and businesses require money to function!

If you didn't want it to be about money, you wouldn't support a professional team.

are fax pro?

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:04 pm  

However bye weeks make sense. it gives player time to recover, this leads to reduction in the chances of "wear and tear injuries"

this means clubs can actually use the players they pay and not see their wages sat on a physios bench

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:05 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

are fax pro?

Do they pay their players?

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:08 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Do they pay their players?

i wasn't having a go mate, i was asking a genuine question.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:10 pm  

chubbs1981 wrote:

However bye weeks make sense. it gives player time to recover, this leads to reduction in the chances of "wear and tear injuries"

this means clubs can actually use the players they pay and not see their wages sat on a physios bench

I agree that wear and tear injuries are a problem. The NRL has it too, and they play less games than Super League does. But the NRL clubs say that while the bye weeks give the players a physical rest, they are often bad because they put clubs off their psychological intensity, and often the players underperform the week after the bye.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:18 pm  

Big Picture wrote:

Do you mean to suggest you'd be happy seeing RL fall behnd other sports financially and lack the means to hold onto its' best players?

yes