Survival

Get rid of the playoffs and just have a first v second Grand Final. That saves a few weeks. The Ashes would be next to go I assume. Luckily we’ve built up some funds by having a few home games already so should be able to survive a postponement of games but probably not a cancellation of many.

If the RFL really were hell bent on expansion at the cost of others then Ottawa and NY would be in by now, London wouldn’t have been relegated, Newcastle and York would have been promoted and Toronto would have been allowed to have some central funding. Seems to me that the RFL and SL aren’t very convinced by expansion and are risking the integrity of all 3 pro-divisions by their approach.

It is a real risk that some clubs will go bust if they can’t play at home for 3 months or more. Some players will face real hardship as their clubs won’t be able to pay them. The RFL and SL have no money to bail clubs out. To suggest it will be an excuse for a cull is massively insulting to everyone working in the sport and undermines how difficult this will be for genuine reasons by adding nonsensical conspiracy theory in. Completely unnecessary and unhelpful at a time of crisis

As others have said. The difficulties faced by the clubs and the sport is nothing compared to people’s health and staying alive. That needs to be the focus and the government needs to be prepared to throw a lot of money at critical services and I’ll people to get us through and then at small/medium businesses, voluntary organisations and sports and cultural bodies to make sure there is enough of society left after the crisis has passed

Well according to this the NRL would have 3 months before it went bankrupt I guess we've got considerably less than that.
coupler.foxsports.com.au/api/v1/article/amp/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-would-have-three-months-before-the-game-would-be-broke-paul-kent/news-story/a15b71e736ec5658a5f5e8f481fb89e2

You do realise you just used 'RFL' and 'common sense' in the same sentence?

I read this and it reminded me if the original post: amp.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/mar/16/beware-sporting-disaster-capitalists-crisis-go-to-waste?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

There is a reference to Union and how a private equity group might cynically use the Coronavirus situation to buy their way in. It’s not beyond the realms of possibilities that something similar could happen with Super League. Private equity groups have already been sniffing around and they could offer to bail the league out should half/all the season be cancelled.

With a private equity group in charge some of the things MR mentioned could come to pass.