Quote: leedsbull "So talking about next year, if we are in the championship how many games do we play.
I assume we play 22 games in the first group of twelve.
If we finish in the top four we go into a group of eight teams(four from super league and four from the championship) do we play all these teams home and away. That makes another 14 games.
From this group the top 3 go into super league and 4th and 5th play off for the last super league position.
That makes a 36 game season plus 1 if we finish 4th or 5th.'"
As far as I understand it all???
Two by 12s comprise SL or tier 1.... Championship or tier 2...each will play 22 home and away plus a magic weekend event ie 23 games in the league.
After the 23 games the league will split into three 8s with the second or middle 8 comprising the bottom 4 super league teams and the top 4 championship teams.
This middle 8 will be for qualifying for the P&R only and the play off games will be 7 games with the 4 championship teams initially,having home advantage, the teams finishing 1 to 3 are re admitted to SL. the 4th and 5th teams will play a one off P&R game to decide who goes up or back into SL and who is relegated or goes back to championship? So 30 in total.
But it could have changed, because it's from the policy review doc. completed in SEPT>2013, and assumed by Nigel as being in tablets of stone?
The third 8 hopefully we wont need to know!