Sensationalist garbage. RL is still a hugely popular sport and always will be.

You worry about the game because you've got no respect for it.

Just get along and watch the game every week at your lcoal pro-club. All of you, that's the least you can do if you respect the sport. You cant dump a club because the management make decisions you dont agree with, or because the club is unsuccesful.

That's sport, get over it.

I know I am probably wrong here.....but is it only me that thinks the club and most people at it, don't have a f#cking idea of how to run a business?
Since I started watching (less than 10 years ago) the club has always made a lost, ignored potential revenue streams through attracting fans and now somehow managed to ship 1,800,000 smackers in 52 weeks? WTF is going on???
I don't care about development of youngsters......why develop them if the pro club is going to go tits up every 5 years?
Sorry, but it's time for make or break at TW2. Either fill the ground, pay wages that the club can afford and sack slackers when they start to slack or just fold up your tent and head to leigh.

35k a week....FFS, where has it gone? and this is 35k every week. If you only count the season weeks, then it's 65k.......nearly 10k a day???? On what???? Tea and muffins?
SKY money, + gate revenue and residuals should just about cover wages for the squad......but 65k a week losses is unacceptable.
Thank god for the NZ sunshine.....nothing seems to have changed with the field of dreams mentality at TW2.

clearly not, given there's been no response for 3 days

The level of losses seem extraordinary given the overheads are supposed to be low, and I kind of share your view on the competencies, looking in from the outside. There seems to have been no progress in the however many years it is since the rebrand, but then again even with some marketing can you generate local interest from a hinterland that isnt in any way culturally engaged with the sport?

Theres no reason to respond other than to give you the facts behind the RFLs decision to reinstate Leigh. It wasn't just because Gateshead went pop. The RFL said that they could have reduced the Championship to ten teams and left Leigh down in Ch1. However and these words came from Nigel Wood, it was felt it was unfair to Leigh as Gateshead had gained an unfair sporting advantage, ie paying all there NRL experienced overseas players while not paying normal everyday creditors. I was as gobsmacked as anyone else, this was the RFL acknowledging the non-level playing field. Now applying this to SL, imagine that you finish bottom in the next two seasons due partly to Crusaders fielding 14 overseas players every season (SL is no longer a level playing field even without the annual threat of relegation). You are then ejected from SL due to your poor playing record over the last three years. I don't think you would let the concessions given to the Crusaders go 'undiscussed' would you.