SUPPORT FOR ALL
I read
with trepidation that there may be a plan to televise all Super League games in season 2024.
It cannot be disputed that the Super League clubs do have the most support on a week-by-week basis. But without all the remaining clubs trying to drag themselves through season after season with ever-reducing payments, there would be no SL clubs.
There is not a Super League club that has not obtained players who started life in the amateur ranks or coaches who have come up through the same route, the Conference leagues, League 1 and the Championship.
Yet the RFL seems to have sold its soul to the Sky gods. These people only select for television what they think will give the best return on their investment. They are not interested in Super League; all they are interested in is revenue. To them, how they get it and who they put to grass doesn’t matter.
Yet they totally ignore the base structure and foundation of Rugby League.
The Batley’s, Featherstone’s, Swinton’s, Workington’s and Whitehaven’s struggle for finance every week. They seem to forget that not all Rugby League areas are flush with millionaires.
It is beyond time that the Rugby League hierarchy and Sky put some real effort into sustaining the foundations of this game and forgot their attitude of, “If they cannot manage, then let them go to the wall”.
Things must change for the benefit of all Rugby League clubs, not just the chosen few.
Geoff Fawcett, Workington
UNACCOUNTABLE
I regularly write to the RFL via email complaining about the standard of match officials. They never respond. I wrote this to them this morning, but