A lot of debate this time of year as ever about franchises and which team will be shafted to allow another similarly useless organisation into the setup. Would it not be a better idea to kick all the useless clubs out until they are ready? The only good enough teams next year will be:

Wigan
Wire
Leeds
Hull
Saints
Catalans
Huddersfield
Bradford

8 is plenty, we can add more when there is a cause to. Salford, Quins, Crusaders, Wakefield, Cas, Widnes and Hull KR are not really 'Super' enough.

14 games a season plus Challenge Cup and 3 x International Origin and play offs is fine. The teams would be far, far stronger. IMO crowds would rocket as every game would be close and there would be fewer games. Limiting supply would focus demand IMO. The NFL teams play 16 games a season for example.

It would help with player fitness and conditioning. It's a win-win for me. Sky deal could be spread more thickly and maybe the cap could rise slightly. International Origin could be given it's own weekends and big build ups and represent a genuine step up for the elite players, rather than a laugh at an exhibition with their mates as it bordered on this year.

Maybe 8 teams is a bit too far, but reducing it is the way to go IMO. The current league has 5 or 6 perennial strugglers, who struggle in every aspect of the game from financial, to attendances to youth development. The playing talent is spread too thinly and the competition hasn't developed like they planned when SL was introduced. Changing Widnes for Wakefield or Salford won't do a thing IMO.

14 games a season eh

You don't like rugby league very much do you

and here comes the bites

Spot on , if you're not ' Super Duper ' you dont get in , obviously having a nice shiney BRAND NEW stadium is a pre requisit to being ' Super Duper '

How the hell can you put Bradford in it and leave out Cas? They've been brilliant this year

Cas with a new ground would be certainties, but you can't have Super League in a ground where you need a tetanus on the way out...

I'm not sure the fans want a close competitive league.....not for the "big" clubs anyway. As soon as those clubs start losing, the fanbase become massively negative, and the attendances drop off.
Only this weekend, the Champs of 2007, 2008, 2009 had a narrow win over the bottom team. Are the fans raving about a close and competitive game?

What's needed are "lower" clubs to stand under the top clubs, to facilitate "top of the table" clashes. But without a "bottom of the table" there is no top of the table.

Hey I'm agreeing with you , you missed Cas out of that list BTW