Quote ="bramleyrhino"Agreed - and this is where the sport really craves leadership.
The vision needs to be spelled out for every club in SL and the Championships as to what direction we need to head. Either we enhance the international calender, which means playing less domestic games, or we keep listening to certain clubs crying that they need 13 home games and a needless week in the play-offs to remain viable.
Personally, I think that a world-class international, played in front of 70,000 people and a huge TV audience does the game much more than two weeks of 6-7k crowds at Belle Vue and Craven Park. As a sport, we crave sponsorship and new fans - and yet Saturday showed that we keep our best product under wraps until November every year.
Of course, chairmen will care about their clubs - that is their perogative, but the game needs to start focusing on the 'greater good'. This weekend did so much more for the game than two weeks of games to work out who will have the 'honour' of getting their s handed to them in week one of the play-offs.
Fewer teams in SL, fewer games in SL, and a period of time blocked out for the international break will do so much more for the sport in this country. If that means some clubs modernising their business plan, then it's an added bonus.'"
BINGO, NOW PEOPLE ARE GETTING THE BIGGER PICTURE. Love this post.
