What are we fighting for?

As delighted as I am that Catalans won the hub cap, the comedown has centered on whether its actually good for the game or not. 

On the night we were given the shield social media was lit with people wondering why the games UK based administrators weren't engaging in the level of Tweets and Instagram posts that they would have if Leeds, Wigan or St Helens had won the division. 

Whether it was a trick of the camera or not, Ken Davy's face has become the iconic image of the Dragons Magic Weekend comeback and securing of league leadership. 

The latest proposals from former Northampton RLFC supremo Ralph Rimmer has focused on the UK and its M62 based clubs with Catalan Media reporting that no French based journalists were briefed or invited to this presentation of the games future. 

The Leigh owner Derek Beaumont is desperately trying to save his club with a bid to prevent Toulouse getting promoted to add more colour and a credible derby for Catalans (sorry London!) in the top division. 

The world feels like its against us at the moment and with murmurings already about the likely loss of revenue from an Old Trafford Grand Final featuring our club, cynical James is expecting us to get refereed out of the play offs. 

We have won the league leaders shield along with the Challenge Cup but that's enough now and boardrooms across the North of England will be holding meetings to ensure that we go no further with our inroads in the Super League. It sounds fanciful but this is rugby league. 

So as much as I am loving life as a Catalans fan at the moment, I have genuine and grave fears for the future of the game and its current set up. 

In fact this season I have watched way more NRL than Superleague along with the ERDS touch rugby series that a number of people I train and play with have been involved in. 

There are a lot of questions and not many answers in the public domain at the moment so I would like to call on the RFL and Superleague to get their backsides in motion and start to share that masterplan. 

They will also need to be humble enough to take feedback from other key stakeholders in the game and show the sort of agility that businesses in the UK have had to during the pandemic. 

My breath is baited.