I like the 4th v 5th play off game even if it is on the highest finsihers home ground at least 1 of the Championship clubs will be in that game with a chance of going into SL, that has to be better than the closed shop of the hated Franchise system surely?
One thing I don't get unless I am missing something is the 7th & 8th teams in the Championship Shield being relegated? What happens to the clubs who were 9th to 12th in the Championship regular season?

Fax4life wrote:
"One thing I don't get unless I am missing something is the 7th & 8th teams in the Championship Shield being relegated? What happens to the clubs who were 9th to 12th in the Championship regular season?"

The teams which are 7th & 8th in the Championship Shield will be the ones who have played a total of 30 matches against Championship opposition and have secured the lowest number of points. They'll deserve to be relegated.
Remember that only 5 to 12 will be in the Championship Shield, and they'll carry forward their League Points into the Shield competition.

It should be on the ground of the team who finishes fourth.

A chance ? Surely four teams have "a chance". They just have to win games.

But that's the problem, isn't it ? There's just too much of a mismatch in resources. A bit like the World Club Championship. How did you do in that ? We won one in the last minute and got stuffed in the other three.

Closed shop ? One team would have gone up at the end of this season. Instead we have to wait another year for a none up, none down system.

Why not ? How could it not work ?