It is a system that English sporting supporters hold near and dear to their hearts. Promotion and Relegation. How does it actually work out for the teams it effects the most? With lower league clubs pushing themselves to the limit to reach the top level, and top league teams scrambling to avoid the trap-door, promotion…
On this episode we look at Promotion and Relegation, we lined up Super League against other high profile sporting leagues that use the system, we look at the dramatic changes that would have been made to the NRL if they had promotion and relegation in place and we talk about the damage it does to…
You know what I really like? Rugby League. I just can’t get enough of it. I mean, look at this web site. Its been going now for ten years and I still haven’t run out of things to write about! Today the Rugby Football League officially announced how their new season structure is going to…
Let’s not mince words here, the London Broncos are are terrible Rugby League club. They are easily the worst run professional Rugby League club in the world. They are coached by Tony Rea, who I believe to be the worst coach in all of professional sport. The players at the Broncos do not respond to…
The Rugby Football League has announced that Super League will be cut from 14 teams in 2014 to 12 teams in 2015. There are more decisions to be made over the coming months about competition structure and how the relationship between Super League and The Championship will work. All of the decisions being made come…
Right now there is a lot of talk about restructuring the Super League and Championship competitions. Some of the idea’s on the table seem alright. Others are completely ridiculous and should not even be up for consideration. The problem with all of the options being put up for discussion right now is that they do…
The Rugby Football League’s licencing system has come under fire recently after the financial collapse of the Bradford Bulls showed it up for what it really was. The grading of clubs in such black and white terms was completely ridiculous. Putting clubs into different categories was always going to lead to problems simply because so…
The Bradford Bulls will stay in Super League in 2013 but me “monitored”, what ever that means. Probably would have been handy if they were “monitored” in the lead up to them going into administration, but hey, what do I know! This decision will rub a lot of people up the wrong way but it…
Recently Warrington Wolves coach Tony Smith told the media that the game administrators needed to look at ways to create more buzz around the sport and compared it, strangely, to Darts. Yes, Darts. He also talked about the need to make decisions that would probably upset some of the big power brokers in the game,…
With the announcement that Super League would be moving towards a franchise system and scrapping Promotion and Relegation, we have seen a number of lower grade teams in the UK making a big song and dance about why they deserve to be in the final Super League lineup. Among those were the Widnes Vikings. You’d…
Well the relegation battle in Super League got a nice little fire lit under it when half the bloody teams in Super League were caught cheating the salary cap. So much for the level playing field. What ever the case it has set up a fascinating relegation battle with Wigan and Wakefield going head to head. Now…