Apologies if this as already been said. I think we have to tolerate the drop in standards for a few years because it will only benefit us in the long run.

There is more opportunity for young players to come into SL sides now, instead of being cast away into the lower leagues never to improve their game. You get many late developers in sport.

With only 10 clubs the pool of potential international talent to pick from would be tiny.

I also think when a side as to pick an extra couple of homegrown youngsters it gives the fans of RL something that football fans rarely get...which is cheering on players who are fans themselves, and not some overseas player here to make a quick few quid.

Daniel Anderson was interviewed on Boots'n'All this evening and he believes that the standard of SL has deteriorated since he was here, citing the increase to 14 teams as one reason. He doesn't think we have the player pool to support that number of teams.

I totally agree with him.

I don't think he said we have deteriated. He said we have not moved on - the level has stayed the same we have stagnated and fourteen teams he thinks is two too many.

Ditto.

He was trying to avoid being overly negative. He was going to say 'plummeted', but didn't want to offend anyone so changed it to stagnated. He's right, there isn't the player pool to support 14 teams with any real quality.