I know this might seem petty but i've always really enjoyed watching RL so as well as going home and away i have tried to attend the internationals / grand finals and all the rest where possible - however as a wakey fan i have kind of lost interest in all this mainly due to franchising and the fact that teams like wakefield / Cas don't appear wanted.

My current attitude is that if the RFL don't value us as supporters of the heartland clubs why should i show up for the big RL events that they promote - to that end i won't be going to the Internationals (advertsied on the trinity website) if wakey or cas get kicked out (as niether deserve it) - my view is that wakey and cas fans should boycott them....

Agree with all that, in fact I was so close to walking away last season, that admin in a perverse way changed my mind (new start and all that)

Wakefield Trinity or nothing for me, flatcap an all.

I think the posts from clan and sandalcat, sum up what a lot of fans feel, particularly fans of smaller clubs.
The game has lots most of the meaning it had when i started watching and perhaps that is down to the belief of the RFL that new & younger supporters want a more modern game, and ours was a traditional old fashioned regional game and therefore not what the new consumer and indeed the TV consumer wants.
I think that this is hugely flawed, as i dont see the numbers increasing in any way, new are not replacing old and attendances at internationals are very poor.
For me the RFLs blueprint for change has been an abject disaster, for one reason.
It an old fashioned reason, particularly strong in our northern heartlands, its called community.
The Rugby family is largely dead, killed by its own, the supporters that once communed at Wembley and Old Trafford to watch Great Britain has drifted of because it no longer has much relevance or sporting chance.
The poor relations are no longer loved and respected by their self serving relations and are living a slow death out of sight.
How can we be in such a state, and how can we bring it back? Certainly nobody at Red Hall knows.

I don't think I've ever read a thread where there was so much unity.

Sad thing is if you posted this on say the Batley, Leigh or even Cas board you'd get the same respnse.

Post it on the Leeds, Wigan or Warrington board you'd get a very opposite response.

There folks lays the problem with the modern game - that's your split - the haves and the have not got a chance. It used to be the haves and have nots, it's only since SL came to be that even the chance was removed.

oh no you havent!!!!

I think international rugby will will continue to fail until the rules which allow players to change their nationality are changed.