Wigan Warriors • IMG Announce Proposed Criteria for Super League 2025

It's a difficult one this and whilst I see the point that he's making, the sport needs to build a better future and the same teams popping up and down between the two leagues isn't going to do that and neither is teams playing "top flight sport" in stadiums that are frankly worse than some non-league football grounds.

Stadiums need to improve, academies need to be improved and the whole infrastructure of clubs needs to improve.

The current mindset of throw a load of money at over the hill foreign imports to stay/go up but forget about your ground and your academy and your marketing etc etc needs to change. It's no surprise that usually the most successful teams in sport have an academy behind them.

Promotion is still possible as it was the last time around, you just need to fix some things up off the field as well as on it. If you finish 2nd/3rd/4th but at the same time you've improved your academy and your facilities and your crowds then you'll probably get promoted ahead of the team that wins the league.

Statistics: Posted by Egg Chasing — Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:10 pm — Replies 2 — Views 390

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