Agree, feel the game is doomed as a professional sport. A big city should easily be able sustain a championship team, especially as they were sharing a ground and costs with Union

Is it 34 clubs left now? And we can be utterly certain some more of those are on the brink of existence. We won't do anything visionary and surprising like a 16 team super league and 18 team championship. Instead the RFL will badly apply a sticking plaster. That will give them some time to polish up their hand-wringing press release template.

Apparently, the championship clubs voted against a conference style structure that would have essentially seen the championship and L1 merge into one comp. With only 8 teams left in L1, it seems it's the only logical solution at this point without a big injection of capital into the game.

Youth teams have led to some poor crowds in Football's Papa Johns Trophy but the Premier League clubs think its worthwhile and asking for more teams or more games.

Of course the Championship and League1 already have a lot of SL reserves on dual ref anyway though

Hunslet have issued a statement in support of a combined Ch/Lg1 with a conference structure. Quite cutting in relation to Ch clubs that have rejected the idea. Hope the link works. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 2759375015

Hunslet have issued a statement in support of a combined Ch/Lg1 with a conference structure. Quite cutting in relation to Ch clubs that have rejected the idea. Hope the link works. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 2759375015

Decent idea. So I doubt they will think of it!