Yes the fox is now living it large in the hen coop, not to too fine a term on it the SL clubs must now be ting it.

It's great to watch.

Agree. IMO the mpg will be Salford v Hull KR and I think Salford could go down.

Personally, I think the MPG will be Hull KR v London with Salford automatically relegated. It will depend on the outcome of Salford v London on the 17th.

I think London win struggle to get 5th but this weekend will show what they've got with them entertaining KR. If they bring Kelly back I think they'll have enough firepower then the Leigh-Giants match becomes even more interesting.

Whilst our season has dwindled away there is at least some interest in the Qualifiers.

New system - one team guaranteed a chance at promotion in a one off match every year!

Sounds like hkr took a hell of a beating vs leigh so could have a few players out and with Kelly possibly not being in the right frame of mind "if he's picked " then that for me gives London a great chance. Big upset coming up I think

Really hope Leigh go up, it validates the only route we currently have to better ourselves, or anyone else at our level for that matter. I'm no fan of Des, or The Leythers, but if a small town with nothing going for it other than sounding like a boys name can go up, then we should all be encouraged and I don't mean our occasional poster of Chips notoriety

Missing Blair as well, going home for his brothers funeral and played this weekend after finding out the news. Respect to him and best wishes at this sad time.

You sure the Franchise system would allow one of us plebs up every 3 years? Really??? No way do we ever want to go back to that system it is not what sport is all about give me P&R any day whether a team achieves it or not just look at the interest it creates!

Errm, Widnes went up when the Crusaders collapsed, but I can't remember anyone else being promoted under the "old system"? Licensing started in 2009, and no-one ever replaced a SL team that was still solvent.

The new system is far from perfect, and may need some serious financial backing of a Championship team to make it, but it's far better than the closed shop that we had under franchising.

Yeah, great. Started in 2009, one club goes bust in 2012 which makes things easy, by 2015, we've got a new system. We hardly gave it much of a trial, did we ?

That's one of the problems with the game, we decide something, decide it's carp and change it at the next meeting. All the RFL (and by that I mean the clubs) are proving is that they don't know what they're doing.