Irregs#16:
Can you imagine Man City and Liverpool giving a crap about what teams like Port Vale and Gillingham think when it comes to how the structure of the PL should look? SL has to decide how it wants to go, it is the pinnacle of the sport in this country, and the lower leagues will get the trickle down of any positive impact the NRL buying SL will have
Problem with letting all clubs decide is they all want different things, a Huddersfield fan wants something different to a Hull fan or a Batley fan etc. The game can't agree a way forward when the clubs are trying to pull it in 36 different directions.
I have to say though, the Beaumont/wood coup seems like a complete disaster so far, talk of scrapping Catalan/Toulouse, the ex chair of the RFL suggesting Bradford are being shoehorned in and the Batley statement doesn't fill people with confidence. The NRL are probably letting this all unfold in public whilst quietly going about their business with the clubs they want for their 10 team comp