Great - another Yorkshire team to up their game for us only to then get whalloped by Hull KR a week or so later.

Oh.

I’m hoping we and the likes of the Hulls and Wire are  working through options of this breakaway as the sky and sports england involvement is very damning. I think a few teams will be edging their bets. I think Derek is going all in on the SL and Woods as let’s face his approach will not wash if the  NRL get involved. I don’t mind Derek and think he has brought some good but the drunken Twitter spats with fans is just too cringy. 

i think they were both on the columbian marching powder over in Catalan and decided to chuck a load of ideas into a hat, and then just keep chucking them out there for a laugh and see how many clubs / fans they can p*** off in the process

So we got an unhappy broadcaster, an unhappy Sports England which is bad news for the wider sport not just super league, unhappy clubs, unhappy fans - need i go on

I'm not going to use this an opportunity to bash Radlinski - but it's a real shame that IL isn't around for this. 

I always thought he was more at odds with the direction SL was going than anyone else.  He'd have loved an opportunity, or opening like this to drive real and purposeful change. 

 


I'm not too concerned about KR at this point.
Although we voted Woods in the position the abstained vote on the 14 club League left people not knowing quite what Wigan's view are on it.
Hull FC & KR voted against, they said, due to a start date of 2026. That suggests they would have voted in favour had it been 2027 implementation. 


Wigan and Warrington were earlier leaning towards an NRL takeover with a 10 club League. Whether this is still a proposal I don't know.
When Maurice wanted to expand the game and back then was opposed by Wood and Hetherington he upstaged them by getting the SKY TV deal which every club voted in favour of.
Pity the NRL together with SKY can't put forward a deal which would take the sport out of the clutches of the collection of clowns to take Rugby League in the UK forward.