Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Help Support The Rugby Forum :
Forums
Rugby Union
Premiership Rugby / Premiership Cup
[MegaThread] RFU Top Flight Future
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 1103790" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>I have long felt that the decline in standing of a lot of big-name clubs in the North is an elephant in the rugby room. If you go back to the early days of league rugby and the JP Cup, a lot of the teams in the North area are playing at a way lower level than they were 30-40+ years ago. Liverpool is a good example, with Waterloo and LSH being household names (in rugby households at least) the fell down through the leagues, in the 90s / 00s. Manchester's not too different with Manchester themselves, Orrell and to a lesser extent Broughton Park's decline. In Yorkshire Wakefield don't even exist anymore, Headingly and Roundhay merged to form a club that's now just about hanging on at level 3 and Morley and Sheffield now further down the Pyramid.</p><p></p><p>If this is league's fault, the question becomes what union has done wrong and / or league done right for this to be the reason or such a seachange.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 1103790, member: 58362"] I have long felt that the decline in standing of a lot of big-name clubs in the North is an elephant in the rugby room. If you go back to the early days of league rugby and the JP Cup, a lot of the teams in the North area are playing at a way lower level than they were 30-40+ years ago. Liverpool is a good example, with Waterloo and LSH being household names (in rugby households at least) the fell down through the leagues, in the 90s / 00s. Manchester's not too different with Manchester themselves, Orrell and to a lesser extent Broughton Park's decline. In Yorkshire Wakefield don't even exist anymore, Headingly and Roundhay merged to form a club that's now just about hanging on at level 3 and Morley and Sheffield now further down the Pyramid. If this is league's fault, the question becomes what union has done wrong and / or league done right for this to be the reason or such a seachange. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rugby Union
Premiership Rugby / Premiership Cup
[MegaThread] RFU Top Flight Future
Top