The central funding has been cut so thin that the league is not sustainable as a national one. Super League is taking all the money just to keep running, and I suspect several Super League clubs are trying to find hundreds of thousands of pounds to fill unexpected budget gaps next year, saved by the gradings I suspect several squads will be running on fumes next year to save money. No relegation may see a drop in quality in the short term at least.

I don't think there is a good option really for League 1, some of the expansion clubs can't afford to travel to the heartlands every other week and even if they did what will 100 point wallopings do for development? I don't think we have a strong enough leadership to steady our crumbling foundations, so every club for themselves?

Just needs to be 2 divisions.

SL needs to be 14 team (or 15) with no loop or magic weekend.

O and R based on criteria

The problem is that would equate to more than 20 in the Championship. That's too many games, particularly for players with a job. It would double the away games that the little clubs would have to fork out to get to as well (cornwall etc).

You could divide it into five four-team regional divisions, which’d reduce travel demands/costs a little too.

Home and away vs teams in the same division, home or away vs teams in the other divisions - 22 games. Division winners and three best runners-up in the play-offs.

Or 2 x 10 would be 28 games.

Fiddly, admittedly.

Greed of super league clubs? It’s not like they’re flush with cash and hogging for themselves. Many super league clubs are on the breadline. This is why they always make these seemingly short-sighted decisions, they need cash today.

Super League reserves padding out the gaps in League 1 for one season seems the most likely outcome, hopefully with some money going to the surviving League 1 clubs to help them fulfill the fixtures. Maybe even rejuvenating Newcastle, I think they pulled out of the current structure, maybe a better one draws them back in?

A full restructure for the should then be planned in the next 6-8 months which ties in with IMG grading and provides a fair structure for every pro club, not just the privileged few.