It seems that it came to a halt sometime in 2005. The whole point of The RLSA was to:

- Democratically represent the views of those who support the game of Rugby League
- To campaign for supporters' opinions to be heard at all levels in the game
- To encourage friendship between supporters of all clubs and countries
- To seek to work for the promotion and expansion of Rugby League.

Today we have a whole new generation of supporters who want to do just that and what a great place to do it on from the most popular rugby league website in the world. I do hope that this thread will lead to the eventual revival of this organisation. You only have to look at Bullbuilder to see how this could work in 2011.

Bullbuilder aims to bring a brighter future to Bradford Bulls. Why can’t the RLSA aim to bring a bright future to rugby league?

Licensing

Now , now , play nice with the SDL fan freddie

Rugby league exist outside Super League



Anyhow I do think that a re-launched version RLSA media presence would certainly encourage a better rugby league future all around.

Away you go , problem is , usually supporters of a club all want the same thing , in RL , we dont

Well I want to craft a super league that favours Leeds and doesn’t help anyone else



Anyhow it’s not my place to re-launch. People put a lot of time into the RLSA back in the day and I’m not sure if whoever has been left in change would want a group of upstarts from the forum to make it alive once again otherwise it wouldn’t be in the neglected state that it’s in. It would have been passed on to someone to sort it out.

I’m not even suggesting that I do it although I would like to. But at least someone should bring it back to its former glory.

I'd be in, and i'm sure many others would too Damo.

The most and least sensible posters on RLFANS join forces!

You're not that bad Damo , there are at least another 3/4 Leeds fans worse than you

Is that a nervous wink?

Quote ="Damo-Leeds"Rugby league exist outside Super League Anyhow I do think that a re-launched version RLSA media presence would certainly encourage a better rugby league future all around.'" Feel free to purchase the www.rlsa.org.uk domain [url=http://www.rlsa.org.uk/offerHERE![/url

Quote ="Damo-Leeds"Rugby league exist outside Super League Anyhow I do think that a re-launched version RLSA media presence would certainly encourage a better rugby league future all around.'" Feel free to purchase the www.rlsa.org.uk domain [url=http://www.rlsa.org.uk/offerHERE![/url

Because the emergence of Super League solved all the problems and guaranteed the brightest of futures for the game.

, quality

Quote ="Keith Swiftcorn"Feel free to purchase the www.rlsa.org.uk domain [url=http://www.rlsa.org.uk/offerHERE![/url'" Wouldn’t that be stealing someone’s organisation..

Quote ="Keith Swiftcorn"Feel free to purchase the www.rlsa.org.uk domain [url=http://www.rlsa.org.uk/offerHERE![/url'" Wouldn’t that be stealing someone’s organisation..

He said ' Purchase ' , rissen wiw you

You can't steal something that no longer exists

But better still if you can find a ' mug ' to buy it

Cheers! You shouldn't put yourself down though.

Anyhow I was talking to Geoff Lee last year and from him it sounded like The TGG has been about in the last few years or at least since 2005. But it was having trouble with getting an editor. The very last thing I heard from him was something to do with the supporters trust.

Hopefully he’ll see this and shed some light on what’s happened or someone else will.

rlsa.rlfans.com/news.php < It still exist here!

rlsa.rlfans.com/news.php < It still exist here!

And not updated since 2005!

That's a long time to allow a corpse to rot.

You could always get in touch with Supporters Direct (that's me!) For the past two years I've been working on trying to develop supporter representation within individual clubs but I'd love the chance to work across the game as a whole as there are a whole host of issues that mean supporters are getting the rough end of the stick. Our work in football has been heading this way for a while and I see no reason why we couldn't do the same in RL. At the very least we need to make sure supporters at levels of the game are being heard and if we can implement some changes along the way then all the better. You can check out our website at [urlhttp://www.supporters-direct.coop[/url or email me at Laura.Harrison@supporters-direct.coop Cheers

You could always get in touch with Supporters Direct (that's me!) For the past two years I've been working on trying to develop supporter representation within individual clubs but I'd love the chance to work across the game as a whole as there are a whole host of issues that mean supporters are getting the rough end of the stick. Our work in football has been heading this way for a while and I see no reason why we couldn't do the same in RL. At the very least we need to make sure supporters at levels of the game are being heard and if we can implement some changes along the way then all the better. You can check out our website at [urlhttp://www.supporters-direct.coop[/url or email me at Laura.Harrison@supporters-direct.coop Cheers

I was in contact with Cliff Spracklen, the RLSA chair about a year ago, with similar thoughts of a revival and also about the campaign to get SLS broadcast nationwide at a reasonable time. Nice bloke, he issued a press release in support. Hopefully he won't mind if I mention a couple of the things he said.

He explained that the RLSA members were TGG magazine subscribers. The magazine was an "influencing document" that was read by many key people in the game. He said it became more difficult to get people to take up roles in the RLSA over time, especially editors for TGG. He said new ideas and volunteers would be especially welcome. So he would probably be pleased to hear from some forum upstarts, Damo! He mentioned the possibility of relaunching the RLSA as a Supporters Trust or IPS. I was interested in doing something and offered some ideas but unfortunately didn't hear back from him (hopefully because he was busy and not because of my ideas!).

It seems to me that Cliff Spracklen and others have become disheartened at running the RLSA and the TGG. After all it set its self standards that have since become unattainable for reasons that I can only guess on.

However there are people like us (and probably many others) that would chase for those standards again. Who’d be prepared to do the rebuilding that clearly isn’t taking place right now. If they are genuinely looking for new ideas to put into practise then they need to make it clear. It’s no good the likes of you and I sending a message every few years expressing our ideas and interest – only for them to become fruitless.

We are supporters too and we want a healthy RLSA. Well at least something that is better than the state that it is in now – which is anything. Hopefully we’ll hear a clear statement of Cliff’s intentions soon if he ever happens to come across this thread.

Quote ="SD1"You could always get in touch with Supporters Direct (that's me!) For the past two years I've been working on trying to develop supporter representation within individual clubs but I'd love the chance to work across the game as a whole as there are a whole host of issues that mean supporters are getting the rough end of the stick. Our work in football has been heading this way for a while and I see no reason why we couldn't do the same in RL. At the very least we need to make sure supporters at levels of the game are being heard and if we can implement some changes along the way then all the better. You can check out our website at [urlhttp://www.supporters-direct.coop[/url or email me at Laura.Harrison@supporters-direct.coop Cheers'" A SD and a RLSA partnership would probably go down a treat. Would Supporters Direct take on the responserbility of restoring the RLSA and TGG to its former glory?

Quote ="SD1"You could always get in touch with Supporters Direct (that's me!) For the past two years I've been working on trying to develop supporter representation within individual clubs but I'd love the chance to work across the game as a whole as there are a whole host of issues that mean supporters are getting the rough end of the stick. Our work in football has been heading this way for a while and I see no reason why we couldn't do the same in RL. At the very least we need to make sure supporters at levels of the game are being heard and if we can implement some changes along the way then all the better. You can check out our website at [urlhttp://www.supporters-direct.coop[/url or email me at Laura.Harrison@supporters-direct.coop Cheers'" A SD and a RLSA partnership would probably go down a treat. Would Supporters Direct take on the responserbility of restoring the RLSA and TGG to its former glory?