Cuts the rubbish from the wheat


Bye bye Castleford & Bradford

Short-sighted appeasement of a small number of Championship fans who want automatic P&R, whatever the cost the clubs involved.

Andy, I don't think it's a 'small number' though

Yet again the sport shoots itself in the foot. No doubt we'll look for radical change again in 5 years time just for the sake of being 'innovative'

Any money London are one, everything about the club is oozing that they are preparing for something different.

The other space is between the Calder clubs and KR, no way will Bradford go down, Salford have been the most lucky club club in the world and saved at the eleventh hour.
My money is on KR and London.

The bottom 2 teams next year will be axed. Personally, if they insist on changing the structure I would get rid of 3, and bring in Toulouse.

14 teams was always too many and to be fair the RFL never implimented the Franchise system properly imo too many teams were given places on if's buts and maybe's and then the RFL threw away £££ trying to save face that it's new idea was a failure.
12 Teams is right enough imo with p+r but i'd also say that the play offs should be top 5 or 6 max ,the CC should revert to May and that ALL SL teams run an open age reserve team aswell.
I don't like this 3 sets of 8 teams BS it's another gimmick imo stick to 12 and with a top 5/6 play offs.

That split into 3 sets of 8 would be a joke

Horrible idea for me too

Reducing numbers in SL must mean reducing the playoffs to the most 5 hopefully 4

I've never really understood why the SL chairman get such a big say in how the game is run anyway. Surely most of the clubs will try and serve their own self interests. As far as the chairman are concerned all axing 2 SL teams means more money for the other 12?

I don't particularly mind if the league is 12 or 14 teams, but no less or more than that.
The split into 3 sets of 8 is and is the worst option possible in my opinion. It extends the threat of relegation from 2-3 clubs to around 5-6 therefore encouraging more short-termism at clubs. The last thing RL needs is more short-termist decisions. Plus it doesn't really offer that much hope of promotion for a Championship team with the current respective funding and salary caps.

My choice would be a licensed 14-team SL with a top 6 playoff.
I'd rather we went with a 12 team SL with straight P&R rather than the 3 sets of 8 rubbish.

I think they will go back to top 6.But i hope its just 5.