Originally Posted by
surge
At the moment the only chance clubs outside the Super League clubs have is several years back to back of slowly building and hoping bigger clubs fail over several years with successive bad transfer activity - unlikely to happen again now Barca have done a Ridsale Leeds.
The only real alternative is getting bought by a state who wants to spend billions improving their reputation to distract from their internal human rights abuse.
Brexit has stopped another story like Brentford happening.
International fans are on their way to having a greater influence over a club than local support ("legacy fans") via fan tokens while not supporting their local clubs.
The existing leagues lost control - or pushed for it to make their brand stronger - and now we're probably heading to a Super League of some sort whether we like it or not.