You can't get promoted out of super league so what's point playing in that too?
It's sport that's why you play not to just get promoted.
Siddal can't get promoted frim their division should the just give up? Or try be the best team at that level?

We'll never know, will we ?

Ifs and buts.

Exactly.

How can any of us say what arrangements Leigh would have proposed in the franchise application they didn't compile ?

However we do know, since they didn't meet the criteria of having 2,500 average attendance in a season, which was part of the criteria, which meant they couldn't apply. So by definition your assertion that Leigh could have been in SL two years earlier doesn't hold true.

However all of this just deflects from your initial point that it was easier to be promoted under the Franchise system, which is plainly not true.

Dog, bone, Dave.

Maybe they'd've given free tickets to all the school kids in the area for the last game and counted them whether they came or not.

Who knows ?