so after 11 games we have a top league of 8 teams.........any mention of how many teams qualify for the Play offs for the grand final...leave it at 8 and no match whatsoever would mean anything as they are all qualified........what genius thought this idea up............

Surely the bottom 4 would have a higher salary cap than the division below??

Did a work experience kid come up with the idea?

Yee god no! Give yourself an uppercut whoever came up with this idea!

So the teams placed 9th in the top division and 5th in the 2nd division would have a far greater chance of winning silverware than the teams that finished 8th in the top division and 4th in the 2nd?



Even by RFL standards this is crazy.

I'm not so negative on the concept. Seams more of a return to an older system that we used to opperate under with a few tweeks.



The big question and one that is not resolved is money.



The top 12 will have more than the bottom 12.

So when the split comes, between the bottom 4 from 1 and the top 4 from 2; there will be a massive gulf in salary and quality of player.



The system would work if everyone got a fair share of the cash, but I can't see SL clubs voting for that. Although you could see non-SL clubs voting for it, to get some paydays. The question would be, will the crowds turn up????



In the end money is the issue and until it can be addressed pretty much any system will have issues and drawbacks.

No No No and No!! What a complete joke!! I hope the SL Chairmen don't vote for this nonsense.

Somehow I doubt that would be the case. Presumably playoffs would be top 2-3 max under such a system.



But yep, the problem with this is that we don't have 24 teams that can compete, or even survive with the money we can bring in at the moment.



The league structure itself is hardly complicated.

What a crackpot idea this is. Where is the extra money that will be needed to finance this going to come from? As things stand the second level teams would just be playing for the right to be flogged by the teams that drop down from the first level.



Would people be willing to buy season tickets for Cas, Wakey, Rovers or Salford if they think that there is a good chance that their clubs are suddenly going to be playing the top clubs at one half of the season to playing second tier clubs the next?



During the second stage of the season teams will more likely to be playing each other home and away to make up for the smaller divisions, so for the top eight clubs that would be three times in the league plus Challenge Cup and any playoff system. It would be like going back to the overkill of several years ago.

SL needs to come up with a plan to increase funding by 7 mill a year, then the club grants can be at an amount that actually keeps the league sustainable.

This has nothing to do with Championship Chairmen. The meeting to decide this loony scheme was attended and voted on democratically by SL chairmen. It's designed to stem the tide of SL clubs going bust.



Don't taint "the lower leagues" with the sticky brush of SL

It’s a proposal from the RFL which has been presented to the SL club chairmen. It hasn’t yet been voted on, ratified, or anything else yet. Hopefully the proposal was laughed out of the room with derision it deserves.