Fans can imagine that stepping down a division will give their club a chance to regroup and return stronger,but, as anyone who saw Sheffield Eagles play London Broncos on Sunday will attest, and life below the Super League can be a slogBy Gavin Willacy for No Helmets Required,part of the Guardian Sport NetworkIf any Wakefield fans are pondering whether it might just be better for them to rep relegated and strengthen the club and rebuild the team in the Championship, assume again. My fellow 400 or so rugby league tragics who were at The Hive on Sunday to suffer through Sheffield Eagles’ scrappy win at London Broncos in one of the most desperate dead-rubbers in recent memory will vouch for this: avoid relegation at all costs.
It was an afternoon that underlined the differences between Super League and the rest. No one could achieve anything about the dismal weather – 12 degrees in late July and swirling rain throughout – nor the extraordinary number of injuries, or several of them serious,that dragged the pitiful game out over 124 minutes (it went on so long that Songs of Praise was on TV in the press room by the time it finished). However, the experience was the antithesis of the Bradford v Leigh game a week earlier, or when over 9000 saw a thriller at Odsal. That was exceptional,this was the regular gruel.
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Source: theguardian.com