Surely everyone's a winner with that?

How can that even remotely be described as a fair league? It makes a mockery of a competition.

Not that cracking on maths?

If you take that 6 or 7 current overseas players out of the teams, thats a minimum of 84 players out of the competition. If you reduce clubs by 2 then you can take 40 off those 84. Where are we finding the other 44 adequate youngsters to come through? we don't have them now, so why would we in future even if we stayed at 14 clubs, like the other poster suggested?

the problem is , everyone is brainwashed with the idea that soopo doopa league is the be all and end all. its not
rugby league was around before murdochs money and will still be around when the plug is pulled, what we have to worry about is how many clubs have survived after this brainless expansion experiment and how many will bankrupt themselves chasing this dream.
pah to new grounds, pah to expansion

god help rugby league

How many people play RL in this country?

Cutting the league back would mean less chance of upsets....like last night

And judging by the posts from other club's supporters they like the David's turning the Goliath's over too.

Besides,at international level did we achieve success when the league was at 12?.

The players at the more successful clubs will always play more games, and thats why they want to be there,playing finals and winning trophies,can't have it both ways ,eh Jamie

League Weekly on Twitter have said clubs have voted to keep it at 14 teams

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... tlead.html

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... tlead.html

Relief for us both really!

Only if the team getting kicked out is (rightfully) Salford!

According to the Yorkshire Post Wakefield voted for 12

I think the problem is that we want more media coverage for this great game of ours. The media tell us that they'll only get it if we're a national sport (we are at amateur level). I honestly think that the RFL think if they get a team in Superleague from Ireland, Scotland and maybe another Welsh or French team then they'll warrant the coverage.

What they don't seem to care about is the effect of reducing the league to 12 or having teams from outside the traditional areas will have on all of the old teams and the communities that watch them?

I'm also led to believe that the late night kick off times prevent next day tabloid coverage - I think this is a cop out as it doesn't appear to effect the football.

I completely disagree with the posts in this thread but I can understand peoples opinions.
For the fella who mentioned only 4 extra games it's more to do with the length of the preseason.
People like Peacock are having 3 week preseasons, you can never get proper preparation in that time.

Because the NRL starts in march look at the size Burgess will turn out come kick off time. Imagine a month longer on the weights and on preparation work.