The Super League plan could only be ended once it was brought out of the shadows and into the public domain. But that could only happen if City and Chelsea were on board.
By signing up on Friday City and Chelsea have allowed for the opportunity for this to be shot down in the way it is currently.
It's high risk and the club is quite rightly taking a monumental amount of stick, but if this sees the collapse of the super league and the demise of the people who have spent a decade working against us, the end game might be worth it...