Quote Lowton_Sparrow="Lowton_Sparrow"Bit daft to start inventing conspiracy theories. I still think the Super 8s are the way to go. Franchising was a total disaster all round but was brought in because straight promotion and relegation didn't work either; the relegated SL team beat everyone & went straight back up, in order to beat them or to stay up in SL if another team would have to spend a fortune, gamble on staying up (not likely) and face financial turmoil if they failed. Saying that though I do think it needs some tweaks. The transfer deadline was a farce, that needs to be pushed back at least a month and a one year minimum contract length enforced. Also while you can't carry all your points through to The Qualifiers I do think you should carry some though, that'd punish teams like Wakefield who openly said they weren't bothered about their 23 Super League Games while rewarding teams like Leigh who've become as good as they can be in The Championship. I think we'll come back stronger next year but we can't keep up this level getting nowhere forever (look at what happened to Featherstone); if that does happen it'll be wasted potential & lower SL clubs will know they've nothing to fear & go back to the attitude during franchising where ambition was punished. Do think as well Super League clubs shouldn't be making any decisions on how the sport is run, how often do you hear "Super League Clubs voted to..." when that now affects all the other clubs, why are we letting 12 clubs (with a notoriously bad track record (franchising, Dual Code, Scrapping reserves)) run the sport for all 38 clubs?!'"
Where is the 'Like' button ?
Not much I can add to that.
Maybe if the Salary Cap was brought closer together. So if SL is £1.8m & Championship £1m, then for those Clubs who can prove affordability to the RFL, by way of showing finances, average gates & sponsorship incomes, bridge the gap by half, so £1.4m Championship & £1.8m SL.
For me the biggest problem in the 8's has been an unwillingness to adapt & tailor the play/approach against SL Clubs. Here I am not talking wholesale changes, just some fine tuning, smarter RL against KR & Wakefield Trinity Schoolgirl's when in a commanding position would have seen us through at least to 5th place & the £million game, as it is I can't see any Championship team other than Bradford having a cat in hell's chance.
Still, we will be back in the North Stand again tomorrow, praying for miracles.
Where is the 'Like' button ?
