Originally Posted by
magic superbeetle
I think the difference between this time and last time was that last time, it didn’t matter if you were graded A or D, if you were in, you were in and you had 3 years to dream up pie in the sky ideas to convince the RFL you haven’t just sat on your backside going Jack all for 3 years, which in reality is exactly what they did.
This time, getting a grade A grants you additional privileges over a grade B. The way you make that “fair” (to borrow the language from the Keighley Chairman) is to restrict those A grades to literally the teams too big to fail. At one time of day we might have thought Bradford were in that category, recent league success (only 1 of 4 teams to win SL, excellent youth development, community involvement etc) but look at them now, and if they hadn’t had a stadium to sell I doubt we would be able to look at them now.