I reckon superleague will break away in about 5 years as the RFL implodes on itself. The RFl are inept in almost every facit of the game and just don,t have any professional people capable of giving the game the profile it richly deserves.

We might see an 8 team superleague, this will depend on the commercial and marketing strengths of these clubs and how quickly they can surpass the efforts from the RFL.

Superleague has been undervalued since 2007 and hence needs a fresh approach and structure, something that some club chairmen have already mentioned through the media. The RfL don,t really have a clue how to adddress the problem and come up with a new model solution.

Intensity needs to come back in every game, a watered down 14 team superleague does not provide this. So who would be the 8 teams who could showcase our sport in the best possible way to attract quality sponsers, increased media exposure and give the game the profile it deserves.

If I had a $ for every numpty who predicted RL would be dead in ten years I could sponsor Sl myself!

Where did I predict they WOULD be dead?

I said that if they don't evolve and become more business savy, then English RL,as in the RFL in it's current guise, would be running an amateur sport......2nd year of SL without a paying naming rights sponsor......you need to get out of perth and have a pint of reality JB......the Championship in soccer is struggling to replace their outgoing naming rights sponsor...it's not all milk and honey in the UK...

I predict Superleague will not be directly run by the RFL within 5 years. Clubs like Leeds, Hull, Wigan, Catalan, St Helens, Warrington will break away and invite 2 other clubs to create a SUPERLEAGUE SELECT independantly run.
The RFL just don't have the processes to re-structure the game to a higher sports business model. This will have to come from a working group from the breakaway six.

Good point OP I'd say I agree that Sky Sports should run the top flight, cut out the middleman.

Ideally, no ... But the RFL is currently run by clowns who should have had the self respect to resign by now.

It principle, I'd prefer they stayed together, but presently there appears to be no prospect whatsoever of clearing out the clowns from the RFL ( they even have defenders on here .. the mind boggles at what they'd actually have to do before these people agreed that we might deserve better) so unfortunately, a split is probably the least bad option compared with years more of this lot.