Hudd-Shay wrote:
Hudd-Shay wrote:
What a load of tripe that is as well. Who'd have thought that promotion in Rugby League would come down to box ticking as much as performance on the pitch? Fax voted for it by all accounts though so it's a case of you've made your bed, lie in it.
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Not sure how the current Fax Board voted for it when they weren't in place when it was announced that IMG would be getting involved.
Likewise, finishing in the top 4 being one of the criteria was only decided upon by IMG in the last couple of weeks.
As regards the other boxes it's hard to say when they haven't been officially announced.
What has been muted as one of the reasons is that in the past certain SL clubs have just taken the money and not put anything back into the game.
Three clubs were anonymously mentioned and IMG were aware of who they are and the intention is to stop this from happening by having targets to achieve both on and off the pitch, this would help to determine which level of grading each team would be awarded in the initial phase and could also be used to measure the progress, or lack of it of each individual club after every season.
Those who made progress in meeting the criteria had a better chance of getting a higher grade and would move up the pecking order with the opposite happening to those who didn't.
As for the full implications no one knows, but as with everything else no doubt some we'll like and some we won't and it will vary from individual to individual as to what they are.
In any case the point I was making was the game is going to undergo some radical changes which involves more than just league position which the club are having to take into consideration.