Why not do two divisions, SL is 14 teams - 12 based on the points system and 2 expansion clubs and put London and Toulouse in there and give them 3 seasons exempt from the points structure and invest in them. So you’ve got the league running as normal plus a development drive for the two most likely teams to do something. It clearly worked for Catalans over the years. Add in little marketing points and have Catalans play Toulouse home and away for 2 weeks in a row and call it El Classico, so everyone knows a particular 2 weeks in June or whatever it’s El Classico over there (El Classico is what they call it when Real Madrid play Barcelona) and then the week after have an international friendly France V England over there so you’ve got like a month of Derby’s over there. Have an international tournament like England v Tonga or whoever but play all 3 games in London, play at Arsenal Tottenham and West Ham the whole series and just try and add things to the comp to grow it down south and in France, do something radical and stick with it.

Down to opinions i guess.

The problem is a lot of clubs don't invest without a gun to their head. There will be chairmen out there saying that there's nothing wrong with handwritten ad boards...but that means the game doesn't get as big advert revenue.

Build… build what exactly? It’s not like they’re gonna bring through a generation of youngsters in a season.

Could they not start to recruit well before the end of their first season? And then build on that to give them a chance?

It's ok for you so long as nobody else gets a chance to improve.

You're just a Selfish, Sanctimonious, Supercilious, Narcissistic Leeds fan.

Its interesting to see Union are currently having a right kerfuffle over promotion and relegation or franchising.

Top flight situations are different Union has got big income but the clubs have spent it all and salary cap has gone up and up. But in the 2nd division its similar to League lots of small clubs with small fanbases and poor grounds. In recent years theyve blocked Jersey and Ealing coming up. Wasps and Worcester have also fallen from grace and find themselves in the lower leagues, similar to Bradford.

Intruiged what strategy Union goes for and if its similar to our IMG approach.