I don't think we have an exciting league. In reality we have a league that doesn't really matter as long as you are somewhere near the top.

The ONLY reason we have more British players coming through is the federation trained rule. It's the single best thing the RFL have done in the 36 years i have been watching the game. Clubs can't exploit the KOLPAC rules ending up with 9 or 10 foreigners anymore. Even if we had a cap of 50 million under the fed trained rules and the home grown player rule we'd see youngsters coming through.

The pro's and con's of licencing can be debated all day long but IMHO if the game can't come up with some decent sponsorship and media coverage pretty soon i fear for our future as a professional sport. I do shifts a work, often after a late shift i stick sky sports news on whilst tinkering on my computer. Last night it was on for 2 hours. Not a single mention of RL. The adverts for a summer of sport didn't mention RL. I saw adverts for F1, tennis, even the English SCHOOLS Athletics. Still no mention of RL. I honestly have no idea what we can do to change the media attitude, even Sky don't do much to promote the sport.

No-one has voted yet and the proposal was that unpopular the split has moved to an end of season promotion competition which still may not end up being implemented.

The Dual Reg thing is the RFL trying to make SL more like NRL. In the NRL if you need match practice, you get thrown into the lower comp. The RFL were/are trying to emulate the NRL by using the lower league sides to the SL sides advantage for getting players fit or for players out of form.

We need to to reduce the amount of games. The problem with money is because of the current economic climate. Once that improves, so will the finances of the clubs and the RFL.

The RFL need to stick with licensing and only consider bringing more teams in when it can be proven that the competition sustain them and they can sustain themselves. Pick the most viable 12 clubs, put them in SL and keep it that way until the competition can sustain more clubs.

P&R had it's chance before and during SL era and it was a failure. Why do we need to bring it back? Licensing is only in it's infancy and needs to be persevered with. If we change now, I can guarantee within 5 years time, we'll find something else wrong and want to change the structure again. We need to give ideas time to bed in and grow not give up on them if they aren't an instant success.

We are trying to get all clubs to invest in youth and the seeds of that are starting to come to fruition at most clubs. By bringing back P&R, clubs are going to put more emphasis and money on staying in the top league rather than their youth structures which in turn will weaken the international game even more so than it is now.

Except when it's seen on TV. Then it appears colourful, vibrant and, most importantly, pretty full. As does Wakey's similarly decrepit ground. The contrast with the likes of Hudds is very apparent and even Wigan and Saints can look pretty dead at certain games. So perhaps less of a turn off than might at first seem the case.

That figure quoted for Wakefield is for the City only. Wakefield's population is 325,600 but if we get rid of the likes of Cas and Feath etc it's about 240k.

I don't think there is anything worse than massive empty stands on TV, which is what we get when teams are playing in shiney new stadiums but can only fill 20% of the capacity.