Sad but true.

Way, way more interestingly:




Hadn't noticed this part of the proposal before, that really changes things... an entirely home grown squad has virtually no salary cap in the second tier! If it only counts the top 25 players in the cap still.

20 players up to the 40k is 800k and then the rest for bought in players seems a pretty good incentive to me

The super league equivalent (home grown players costing 100k on the cap) isn't quite as flexible as that so it's a pretty good incentive for everyone to get involved in youth development.

The home grown incentive and the championship salary cap increase are the best two things in the proposal

The real champions are the team that wins the competition that qualifies you as champions. The grand final.

If huddersfield wanted to be champions they should have won the grand final.

Or however they want to use it, it does make a massive difference. It does strike me as a bit of a yo-yo clause, if a team with plenty of developed players has a freak year and is relegated, they don't necessarily get pillaged like a club made up of external products would. But obviously, the players still have to be paid which probably wont be sustainable longer term if a team stays in the lower league.

thats why i said at the start that i agree with the new proposals which go towards more emphasis on winning the league.

I can never understand why people are so adverse to the Grand Final deciding the Champions.

For the majority of the history of our sport, that's how the title has been decided, and it creates a finish to the season which (obviously) results in it going to the final game.

It's good enough for the NRL, NFL, NHL, MLB etc. and I never see the issue with it.

The new proposals give the team winning the league a game at home versus 4th place. Just like now, but with no second chance.

represented in one table. Since, if we had both Yorks and Lancs teams in the top four, they would not only have not played each other, they would have played a totally different set of fixtures throughout the season. A play off was obviously the only fair way to decide which was the better side, and it also made a bit of extra money.

When two totally separate divisions were brought in all teams played each other home and away, so RL dropped the now unnecessary play-offs for deciding the championship but retained them as the Premiership, so they continued their secondary role of providing some extra income. I guess Sky was the driver of the current set up and I can't say I blame them to be fair, they're just maximising what they get, but when you already have the 'Rolls Royce' system for deciding which is the best team, it all seems so false and more than a bit contrived.

and that is one of the things that is currently WRONG with the game in this country.
It's becoming more elitist than Rugby Union ever was!

The Grand Final is a "Made for Television" production!