I'll tell you what facts I can recognise, the Champiionship clubs are in the state they're in as far as standards of play go because despite all the promises in 1995 the SL clubs cut them adrift. And then refused them access to the elite league. What we have today - only 3 -4 clubs SL really competitive is the result.
I reckon that Fev, Fax, Batley or Leigh could, even part time give a good account of themselves against the lower end of SL. Return to some form of P&R with caveats as far as ground facilities etc if you like, but the main qualification must be "what happens on the field of play" as the High Court has it in the London Welsh case. If we do that there may be some rough times ahead for the promoted clubs, and a bit of turbulence, but eventually we'll have a robust well supported game with regular movements between two divisions. That is the only way forward, disaster is looming for Bradford, and it's rumoured for Salford and Cas, possilbly others. Why? Because at this point in the season their fans have no reason to part with their hard earned to watch their team get hammered by the top teams week in week out. And games against lower opposition are totally meaningless. Plus how long can teams like Fev or Fax be expected to maintain teams at the top of their division? How long can the fans of these teams be expected to fork out for meaningless cricket scores like 69 -0 against Hunslet. And yet if they do fall from grace and another team takes over at the top, they'll have to get the qualifying results all over again. Plus the farce last year of Widnes going through the motions, and Wakey expecting to be dropped only to be told at the last knockings they were in because Crusaders, who'd signed players for the next season were dropping out should be avoided at all costs.

Thats a very valid point but in our recent discussion with Sheikh Onamaface the lack of guaranteed p&r killed the deal.

Interesting. When we were negotiating with Baron von moneylaundering, it was the fact that he could almost guarantee getting a team into SL by building the right club infrastructure, rather than having to depend on the lottery of a small set of playing results that made the idea so attractive to him.

Thats quite interesting, do you think its a cultural thing between Germans and Arabs or historical, due to one having one and the other not?

No.