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| Cokey:
Grant wasn't even average in the championship, and now we have to endure his performances in our elite League which in my view, is bringing the standard of our game down to a poor level. We have another weak ref in Liam Rush who i think is the same. He was being intimidated by Sam Tomkins all game yesterday with Leigh.
Its easy to get caught up when it's your team on the receiving end, and sometimes emotion clouds ones view. I'm as guilty as anyone.However, watching games as a neutral allows for objectivity - and the standard is indeed poor right across the board. On pitch refs unable/unwilling to decide on a try when they are right on top of the ball carrier, kicking it up to the VR, who has no better view, to make the final call. Then incidents like the two today, mentioned in posts above. Clearly the wrong calls, with them being blindingly obvious at first glance and full speed. But the biggest bugbear for me is the inconsistency - between refs, from the same ref in different games and, the most frustrating of all, from the ref in the same game. How hard can it be to get a consistent definition of a knock on, an incorrect ptb, or implement interpretations for longer than 5.mins. Rush should have shut Tomkins down yesterday, I'd like to think he'll learn - tbf to him, he did a good job of refereeing our game at Cas. | | |
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One thing that could hurt Leeds from 14 teams is new clubs going after our young players with offers of more coin.
The terrible debacle that is Salford is a far bigger embarrassment to the game than Hudds playing 1 game at Dewsbury.
Salford going on a warm weather pre-season training camp and having the Happy Mondays playing before our game early in the year are the epitome of appalling management.
Today’s game at Hull is a joke. They will be wound up shortly after the season ends. Feel for fans, staff and players.
Today is literally men v boys
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| YosemiteSam:christopher:Jack Burton:
Apparently, Sky aren't happy about having to broadcast an extra game that they haven't paid for. Honestly, the lack of foresight and professionalism within RL is an embarrassment. How can we ever hope to attract sponsors and broadcasters when there's no stability or professionalism.
There's been next to no communication from the people involved in this apart from the standard line of the game is losing money and we need a governing body who is sympathetic to the people with actual 'skin in the game'.
The only way this changes is if someone comes along with enough cash to buy the whole thing, or things get so bad, the owners will have no choice but to sell to the NRL for a cut price (I suspect this is what the NRL actually wants).
I'm also a bit disappointed with Hetherington and his part in all of this. I mean he's voted for this as CEO of the Rhinos whilst being the majority owner of The Broncos. There's so much wrong with all of this, I mean it doesn't give you a good hand to play with your Main Broadcaster when you suddenly change the terms of the deal without consulting them, what confidence does that give them to give us a better deal next time. Or indeed any broadcaster who may have been looking to enter the market. Doubtful, I know, but the way the game continues to be run is precisely why there is little to no interest in a halfway competitive tv deal. There is zero strategy in play, IMG were brought in to bring just that, but as soon as it didn't align with the prevailing views they have been marginalised. To compound matters, not only don't we have a well planned programme to grow the game and improve the quality, we don't even have the stability that should be the default corollary of "no change". Rushed changes with zero thought as to how they will be implemented, bringing more chaos and confusion, is hardly the blueprint for growing anything successfully. But, despite IMG, we have the Salford situation. This is really IMG's and Salfords making. How they were ever graded above London baffles me | | | |
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SALFORD!
I don't see a fair way of dealing with this mess. If we had a sensible league where you play the opposition once, home and away, you could either expunge all their points or award a walkover. You can't do that fairly with the ridiculous loop fixtures. This just illustrates what a joke the current Superleague set up is. At least in 2026 it will be a fair competition even if there are some blowout scores, it will be the same for everyone.
Although I have sympathy for the players and staff at the club the root cause of the problems are Salford's and their owners. I don't want to see them in the Superleague , Championship or league 1 next season. They should be playing in the national conference league, if at all. They have made a mockery of the competion, robbed the RFL of £400k (the advance agreed at the beginning of the season) and are simply not fit to partake. I know this seems harsh for a club with much history behind them but the problems are of Salford's own making and they need to sort themselves out, not rely on bailouts from other clubs. To think they remained in Superleague to the detriment of London, which was well run, is unbeleivable.
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