Middle 8s great if you qualify and get loads more money, but agree it's badly flawed and leaves behind the much hated Championship Shield.

But one up one down is not the answer. Last 3 seasons we've had runaway leaders which would have meant a dead rubber for the majority of teams as early as May. Why not the old style 5 team GF play off with the winner getting promoted, and the losing finalist in a million pound play off with 2nd bottom SL? Why oh why oh why oh why can't the RL see this as the more exciting workable option? I despair, I really do.

I despair, I really do.

Dont we all !!

The last thing the SL clubs want us the million pound game but if there was a more even spread of money it might not be such a disaster for clubs.

Don't worry, Norman. There are months to go before the start of next season. The structure will probably have changed a couple of times before then.

As usual, money is the problem. We didn't have enough to create a sufficiently good under competition for the top teams in Div 2 to challenge the bottom teams in Div 1. So we created this idea of giving a few teams in Div 2 a lot of money. Which created a huge split between the top four - plus two teams who were throwing money at winning promotion - and the rest, completely ruining Div 2.

Funnily enough, I've not seen the new money arrangements mentioned .....