The game is in a terrific mess at the moment. There’s been a lot of drift in the last few years and the whole 8s system has been extremely damaging.
The best thing for the Giants to do is batten down the hatches and focus on sorting the club out. Easier said than done, but it will be easier to ride out the RFL/SLE chaos at the top of the table than at the bottom. Easier still if you’re at the top and pulling decent crowds.
Whenever you see the fanciful grand designs put forward periodically they always call for “big city clubs” to appear out of nowhere to replace the small town clubs that are supposedly holding the game back. But for some reason the small towns they list as the problem never include St Helens or Wigan eh?
If the club is in the top 4 and pulling a good crowd in, then it’s bullet proof. That’s all we should care about as a club.