IMG Grading Score 2024 – Update from CEO Neil Hampshire

I can today announce that our Club Grading score is as follows:

RANK CLUB SCORE GRADE
28 HUNSLET RLFC 6.98 Grade C

Analysis and previous year comparison

Pillars 2024 2023
FANDOM 2.25 2.05
PERFORMANCE 0.5714 0.46
FINANCE 1.75 1.75
STADIUM 0.6563 0.68
COMMUNITY 1.75 2
Total 6.98 6.94

I won’t dwell on this as our dissatisfaction with this process is well documented and we will continue to oppose it. Last year we were ranked 29th. Grade B scores are from 7.50 to 14.99 and Grade A scores from 15 to 20.

Differences are as follows:

Fandom:

Score increased due to improved social media performance. A big thanks to the social media team: Gaz Evans, Ian Pickles, Phil Hodgson, Dave Vincent Smith, our superb photographer Craig Irvine and Scott Johnson for Hunslet TV.

Performance:

Increased due to securing the play-off final win.

Finance:

No difference.

Stadium:

Virtually no difference.

Community:

Score decreased due to parting company with the Hunslet Rugby Foundation due to irreconcilable differences. We are liaising with the RFL around the set-up of a new foundation in 2025.

Neil Hampshire

“So we Shall Again”