Independent Leyton Orient Forum

£16 million from the government, got to save the sport and the communities that follow it etc. Football does not matter then?

Mikero

I am a big RL fan. Politics has a lot to do with this donation. A lot of Northern towns voted the Tories in for the first time ever. Those Mps have lobbied Johnson. It is a great game with the top players only earning what a top Div 1 player would earn. Others similar to or probably less than O'S

Nothing against the game, just the one-sidedness of the decision.

Mikero

Yeah, apparently money is being dished out on the basis of votes for Tories. The Highland Shinty Association is getting £2.50.

aylesburyos wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 2:11 pm I am a big RL fan. Politics has a lot to do with this donation. A lot of Northern towns voted the Tories in for the first time ever. Those Mps have lobbied Johnson. It is a great game with the top players only earning what a top Div 1 player would earn. Others similar to or probably less than O'S

Absolutely spot on analysis.

Wow, politicians handing money to people who voted for them. Whatever next.

Prop up the North in thanks for their votes last year.

aylesburyos wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 2:11 pm I am a big RL fan. Politics has a lot to do with this donation. A lot of Northern towns voted the Tories in for the first time ever. Those Mps have lobbied Johnson. It is a great game with the top players only earning what a top Div 1 player would earn. Others similar to or probably less than O'S

You may be right but Labour would have probably done the same and for pretty much the same reasons. Rugby League, along with a number of other smaller sports, is a pretty bankrupt industry. As long as the government then proceeds to support other smaller, or local based, sports/sports institutions then I don't have a problem with this.