With the right marketing the Championship could easily become the equivalent of the EFL Championship and become a really vibrant and successful competition - that may well become a reality when Super League pull up the drawbridge!

I believe it was Nigel Wood's doing.

And we do get 'a slice of the pie' don't we? Where do we think the central funding comes from if it doesn't come from the Sky pie?

I think there a many different levels of finance, and ambition, within the Championship clubs. Given the 'austerity measures' which seem to apply around Odsal at times I guess that many of us think we're one of the poorer sides, but when you consider the level of staffing (players, coaches, back room etc) and of course the money we pay for season tickets, we're clearly in the higher levels of the division. Many clubs though stagger from one leccy bill to the next so they probably don't care over much about whether they will appear on TV or not. Mainly because they most likely won't.

I honestly think his heart was in the right place with this. He wanted to make sure the lower leagues weren't cut adrift and left to fend for themselves....soon as they get rid of him his concerns is looking very concrete.

what was our central funding! £150,000K per team in the CC compared with 2 or 3mil in the SL hardly a great share. also if the Sky funding drops the CC gets less and the SL gets it all.

Totally agree with this. It seems he was right in doing so too because as you put, without him there the threat has become reality