Quote: bewareshadows "Yep because no one has ever been able to gain promotion to SL apart from
Castleford
Huddersfield
Hull FC
Leigh
Salford
Widnes
Hull KR
but apart from those 7 exceptions to the rule no club could possibly gain promotion.'"
You're being disingenuous. Most of those promotions didn't involve jumping the hurdles now put in front of championship clubs. In fact it's never been more important to have a big money backer if you are to have any chance of competing with SL sides in the middle 8s and thereby be promoted.
Not all of those promoted sides you quote did so on the back of millionaires but all future promotions will have to be imo.