Super League clubs to inject cash into RFL for '22

Super League rugby clubs have agreed to hand over in excess of £5M ($6.8M) to the Rugby Football League for '22 as "talks continue on a re-alignment with the governing body." The cash will come from the £25M ($34.3M) a year thought to be due from the new two-year television agreement with Sky Sports "which kicks in from the end of this season." Top-flight clubs took on television negotiations when they broke away from the RFL in '18 but interim Super League chairman Ken Davy, who took over from executive chairman Robert Elstone in March, is "keen to forge closer ties with the governing body." Davy told a media briefing on Tuesday that talks which began in July are taking "longer than anticipated but that he hopes for a conclusion by the end of the year." 

In the meantime, Davy revealed that clubs have "agreed to give around a fifth of its television income to the RFL," which will decide how much of the £5M ($6.8M)-plus to hand on to the Championship and League 1 clubs (London INDEPENDENT, 8/31).