Would it be a massive drop though? At the moment teams either get 14 or 15 home games based on position come the split.

A 14 team league playing home & away would give you 13 so only a loss of 1 or 2 games. And these 1 or 2 games are one that they complain they struggle to sell anyway because of the short notice of the 8’s system.

13 home fixtures known from season start
or
11 home fixtures from season start with either 3 or 4 short notice home games.

Shouldn’t be that much of a difference in income in the end.

Sick of players crying about losing their jobs in this format. You have 23 rounds plus another 7 to avoid the threat of relegation. If clubs have to 'tear up' your contract because you're too expensive that's their fault not the formats. Could you imagine someone working at Tesco's or at a solicitors getting 30 chances to save their job?

Have you never seen the headlines of "fat cats" getting several £100k when they are finished.

You dont mention that RL players may be on a 3 or 4 year contract worth X and then make commitments to say, buy a house or, car etc and because their club gets relegated, regardless of how well that player had performed, said contract becomes void and it's off to the job centre ??
Of course, you can argue that they know what they're getting into but, that knowledge wont pay their bills.

In football, assuming that a transfer isn't agreed, the players see their contracts through (at the agreed rate) but, in League, the contract goes up in smoke.
Maybe, this is something that the parachute payments should go towards but, it makes for an uncertain future for a significant number of players.
Using your Tesco worker analogy, they too could lose their job but, those with fixed term contracts would be paid out
(Mind you the £8.50 / hr workers would just be dumped and replaced).

I still like the super 8s. The teams at the bottom have a certain amount of angst whilst the team in 8th may still have some chance of reaching the top four. It is far more than they would get under a simple one up one down system. Dead rubbers start much later in the season. The problem is us fans refusing to make arrangements at relatively short notice. Fans of other sports do not seem to worry. Several of my workmates had complicated schemes to get to see Liverpool in the Ukraine involving flying to Georgia and renting transport whereas we have problems with the Pennines.

Your mates probably didn't have to explain to the wife and kids why they decided not to go on holiday with them or cancelled the family holiday.

I've flown over 15,000km's this year following the NZ Warriors.....just saying like.

Hull FC to St Helens....is a 400km round trip.......about 2 hours each way. YES........time off work etc is hard, but if you're a fan of RL, you're a fan of RL.......you get there!