www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -Neil.html Good article and an honest and forthright assessment of where the game has been lead - hang your head Dicky.

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -Neil.html Good article and an honest and forthright assessment of where the game has been lead - hang your head Dicky.

Clubs are still stupid paying out money they don't have. Hull KR are one of those clubs... £3m in the red.

Great article and hopefully the beginning of the end for current structure, operators of the great game.

Too many monumental mistakes to mention on here but the icing on the cake was to give away the only main SL sponsorship deal on the promise of a dozen trucks getting painted, laughable if it wasn't our sport.

There'll be enough money to pay the Red Hall 5 their £1m this year!!

Is hudgell hoping the rfl just prop us failing sl clubs now?
The fact you can watch bradford and huddersfield for lesss than a fiver a game is shocking,now salford are giving family tickets for 4 away for a tenner,how many of the other clubs are behaving in this ridiculous manner?ffs this is the top league in the third most watched sport in england.
The rfl would do well to stay well away until they've sorted themselves out

Its a very sad state of affairs and one that has been allowed to happen ,our fantastic sport has been badly managed

The RFL should have been reading these forums for the last 6 years so they could have had an idea of how the people who know a thing or two about the game and it's supporters could help. If they have and just turned a blind eye they should be sacked imediately. I can't help but think that there is just one person who has been making all the decisions and the others have been told to tow the line or go.

Cue the 'I love the RFL brigade'

There seems to be more cover up's at Red Hall than at Tory HQ these days.

Lets face it though if it wasn't for those who have more money than sense like the chairman mentioned in the article and all the other 'sugar daddies' throughout Rugby League who pour money into the sport then clubs would have had to 'cut their cloth' years ago (and yes I'm including ours). Perhaps even some of our own speccies will now wake up and realise that the players and staff we have are all we can afford and the days of paying out inflated salaries to them are gone. I know players have only a short career and must get out of the sport as much as they can but the clubs must stand firm and only pay out what they can afford or there will be no sport for them to play for - and for us to watch and support.
Stop chasing the Australian dream and make our sport as good as it can be for that's all it can afford.

No doubt at all that Hudgell is trying to cover his own backside as it's more than conceivable that HKR will be next in line after Bradford, so I'd suspect he's looking after his own backyard (as he's more than entitled to do) and trying to pre-empt some more income from the RFL/Sky.

Time for clubs to be allowed to find their own level both on the field and financially.

Trouble being is that most fans won't accept that it's an expensive sport (unfortunately made so by clubs like the SL ones and others chasing the SL dream) both for speccies and clubs and until the fans expectations get in line with whichever team they supports financial budget, it won't change until there is no pro sport to support.

The book stops firmly with the clubs themselves, they are the problem rather than the governing body.