Rarely post these days but as a Bulls supporting actor once said "my dander is well and truly up!" Some or all of this may have be mentioned but there ya go. Just hoping it will make me feel a bit better but I bet it won't.

At the last fans forum GS stated that the club were going to seek legal advice re the sharing of the Sky money amongst the other clubs. I got the impression that he was saying that in the light of the reintro of promotion/relegation because, as has been stated many times recently, the goalposts have definitely been moved and it is not a level playing field. Whilst (thankfully) I'm not a lawyer, the original decision to deprive the club of said money and redistribute it was nothing short of extortion - basically, "pay up or you don't come in". From everything I have read and heard there was nothing official to it and it has set a terrible precedent, where certain Super League chairmen/club owners are calling the shots and the RFL are exposed as weak and frightened. The greatest sport in the world led by complete clowns! The other clubs have essentially started down the road of creating a cartel and the whole thing flies in the face of the spirit of competion law. In one way, I really do hope the club goes down the road of legal exploration, although that would obviously be expensive, depending on the level of resistance encountered. However, after the Hudds/Mason debacle I think most clubs might be wary of an impending courtroom wrestle when all they need to do is cough up a mere £50kish each to make a huge potential nightmare for themselves and the sport go away. You would think that by now even the most autocratic and obstinate of club chairmen must recognise that it was an act of folly to allow themselves to be led into a decision that was opportunistic and greedy and driven, by individuals who clearly have little or no regard to the consequences of their autocratic actions. Just how and why did the RFL sit back and allow this to happen??? Are they and the other clubs not guilty of bringing the game into disrepute?

The Kopczack cock-up is a different pit of vipers, and one which affects the reputation of the game I love in a big way. As a previous poster stated, if the RFL let this one slide they will be setting a huge and immensely damaging precedent. Furthermore, does not the whole sequence of events (from CK's 'loaded' walkout to Mason's contrived dimissal and subsequent court hearing) contain collectively, the ingredients of fraud and conspiracy? Something definitely there for the lawyers to chew over I think.

At face value, it sounds fine - but how often do Championship teams beat SL teams in the cup?

To be honest there is too much of an in-built advantage to the SL team; full time fitter players, professional training and coaching facilities, a team costing the best part of £2m which is playing against higher quality opposing teams on a weekly basis.

I'm not sure I'd consider having better players as an unfair advantage.

The plan is that the top 8 in SL will carry over their points from the first 23 games but the bottom 4 from SL and the top 4 from the division below start again with a clean sheet. They will then play a further 7 games with the championship clubs getting 4 home games. A tough ask but they will see an increase in central funding so the gap will perhaps become closer than it currently is.

Didn't actually say it was 'unfair', it's just a fact, and in that promotion/relegation play-off scenario it pretty much prevents any change taking place. Which imo, rules it out as a way of deciding ups and downs.

That's the bit of these proposals I have the most difficulty with.

All I can see is four SL clubs vying to stuff four Championship clubs by the highest margin so as to win the division. Loads of uncompetitive matches, indeed, [iexactly[/i the sort of games we thought we were getting rid of when we brought in SL, and during which I'm going to be spending time wondering if this is what I thought I was paying for when I bought my season ticket.

Actually, the only way to get any sort of competition might be to let all those clubs keep the points they got in their earlier league, so the Championship clubs would start with more - a bit artificial, but it at least puts the end result in some doubt.