The Virtual Terrace • Re: New SKY sports deal
Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:
Tbf as a Bradford fan that was a gutting loss. If that happened to you it would have stung too. But I don't get the use of this game to insult Bradford ("Wakefield were mickey poor and you still couldn't beat us"). Considering we were a Championship side, you were SL, it was pretty much yours to loose. Also you'd recruited like mad in the build up to the playoffs (Locke, Tansey, Sio, Mullally, Smith, Tupou, Moore) to ensure survival. Don't get me wrong we brought in Dane Neilsen. But wow never seen a club react the way Wakey did because you knew you'd be relegated if you didn't do anything. The 3 games you won in Super 8's was against Champ teams and you lost the dead rubber to Sheffield. You'd smashed us 48-18 in the 2nd week so when we played the £1million game, again, it was yours to loose. And you nearly blew it big time against a Bradford side who weren't great that day. If you'd have gone down that day after spending all that money, you could well have been in Bradford's predicament. Sounds like the rule changes that year (to include a bottom 4 qualifier) saved Wakefield. The structure the season before would have seen you down. Sport can be that fickle sometimes. But fair play, you survived and even thrived for a while. Loved the Fifita signing.
I don't think anyone wants the rules changing to allow Bradford back in. Well the fans don't anyway. Only ones that are mentioning that Bradford really are the SL chairmen who want us back and the likes of Carney etc. I certainly don't want SL if it's just going to be a poison chalice.
Correct, although tbf it did throw up some great games. All the £1million games have been great and was good to see us beat Salford and Leigh in 2015.
Agreed. There will need to be very clear reasons as to why the 12th club have been chosen above everybody else. And also clarification on how they proceed. If the 12th club is there for cannon fodder, there's a problem. If the 12th club is the last before SL 'closes shop' there's a problem.
I'd agree with you here. Although I'd argue at the moment Leigh have got the squad on paper to potentially survive which is why I can't see SL clubs letting them in.
Agree with the alienation of fans and agree on Elstone. The man has failed in everything he has done and if the rumors are true about a lower SKY deal then he has essentially killed the game off at Champ/League 1.[/quote]
We're now singing the same song
A return to some kind of franchising and scrapping promotion and relegation would be a terrible backward step.
It is better to be relegated that it is, never to be allowed to be promoted.
Although relegation is always very difficult and can be the end for some clubs, P/R remains part of the British psyche.
Ironically though, "franchising" would be the best model for anyone keen on "expansion". It's just grossly unfair on clubs that are precluded from gaining promotion and, more importantly, I have no faith in the impartiality of the games administrators to make the "right" choices - generally, they have made a right mess of the sport. Although, getting to the end of this SL season has been a feather in their cap.
Statistics: Posted by wrencat1873 — Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:32 pm