
Amendments to IMG grading proposals to be sent to clubs
Clubs will next week receive details of amendments that have been made to IMG proposals to introduce a grading system to the professional game ahead of the 2025 season.
Clubs will next week receive details of amendments that have been made to IMG proposals to introduce a grading system to the professional game ahead of the 2025 season.
IMG have been tasked with steering rugby league forward, but at one time that responsibility might have fallen to Eddie Hearn.
It wouldn’t be a rugby league revolution without public shows of discontent, and the start of IMG’s 12-year strategy plan is no different.
A proposal for a 2-up, 2-down relegation model from Super League has been put forward by one of the dissenters towards IMG’s latest plans to “reimagine rugby league”.
The IMG criteria for the next era of Super League licensing has landed and while detailed in parts, it remains suitably vague.
IMG have presented to clubs their recommended grading criteria, with five key areas to be used through their assessment process.
It’s been a long time coming, but clubs are set to finally find out the criteria that will ultimately determine their future from 2025 and beyond.
The criteria for IMG’s plan to bring a form of licensing back to Super League is set to be revealed later today (Thursday), and Toulouse will be as keen as ...
IMG have set a date where they will present to clubs the grading criteria for Super League set to come in to force in 2025.
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Clubs will need to have a Women’s Super League team to gain a category A licence under the new IMG proposals.
Founder members of Super League in 1996, there’s perhaps a sense of deja vu hearing IMG’s comments about the importance of London for rugby league.
One of the less headline-grabbing elements of IMG’s preliminary proposals for re-imagining rugby league was the separation between the product and the game.
2022 was the year that IMG arrived to “reimagine” the rugby league landscape in Britain. But you’d be forgiven for thinking that we have been here before.
Rugby league can’t keep doing the same thing and hope for a different outcome, according to dual-code legend Jason Robinson.
The only club to vote against IMG’s recent recommendations to re-imagine rugby league has compared the fall-out to the failed European Super League project in football.
IMG’s proposed changes to the rugby league calendar have been welcomed by the players’ union GMB.
The move to protect top clubs from relegation from Super League has been met with criticism.
Two-legged ties could be added to the Challenge Cup under IMG’s latest proposals to rugby league.
France head coach Laurent Frayssinous has shared his support of IMG’s plans for an annual test against England on the international scene.
Bosses of Championship sides Bradford, Featherstone and York have backed IMG’s proposals for the sport, which were shared on Wednesday morning with clubs.
Rugby league is set to scrap automatic promotion and relegation to its top tier and elevate clubs on the basis of a new grading system under proposals unveiled by global sports ...
Rugby League Commercial, the new company created to drive rugby league’s commercial development as part of the realignment of the sport’s governance, has appointed its first senior board members.
RFL chief executive Ralph Rimmer says there will be no structure changes for the 2023 season and they will await recommendations from new partners IMG for beyond that.
IMG’s Vice President of Sports Management Matt Dwyer says the international side of rugby league is one which needs to be re-vitalised. Last month, the Rugby Football League and...
Wales head coach John Kear says that he wants a new lease of life to be brought to international rugby league via the RFL’s partnership with IMG. Set up in...