That’s funny, it’s not mentioned on the super league website, in terms of past winners of the competition.

It only mentions grand final winners.

Now, I wonder why that is.

Cas are a solid SL club. Kicking them out because of a cack-handed spreadsheet exercise would be crazy in my view.

I love how Castleford are appealing against their own incompetence in submitting the wrong information.

The funny thing about all this is that we went through the exact same song and dance around 14 years ago. I remember Richard Lewis on sky sports proudly hailing the introduction of licensing and the new grading system.

I wonder how long it’ll take to abolish it this time.

You said they had won nothing. I'm merely pointing out they won one of the three available trophies as recently as 2017.

To be honest, I'm firmly in the camp that says the LLS should get more kudos than it does whatever it says on the SL website.

I get the distrust after that. They chucked a massive amount of credibility and good faith in the bin.

I understand why people thought they might fiddle with the system or come up with an exemption for London.

But so far they haven’t and the basis of assessment is transparent and objective.

We’ve done everything else before too.

Wigan & Workingtons badge the same. This IMG $h!te need to be rid of ASAP! Nothing but a bunch of clowns the F**ing lot of em.

They’ve been to a grand final which is more than Leigh can say,

Well, that's the deck chairs thoroughly rearranged (again)...

What a delectable medley of rugby league splendour.

Really? Perhaps you could point to it. All the anger I can see is aimed at the club, unless that is what you meant. I do realise it is fashionable for every reaction to be reported OTT these days.

I think grading is worse than P+R, and it will continue the sniping and culture of putting down other clubs down, when one of the few unique selling points that Rugby League has (and the one that has made an indent into mainstream culture) is the "sense of community". If this puts off players and fans from some clubs, and many of those left just hates each other even more that's going to be gone too.

We have a history of kicking clubs out of the top division for "other reasons" (dawn of Super league, licensing, geographical expansion, gradings, etc) and it doesn't do the teams dropping down/kicked out any good. Then later when one of the chosen few fails we have to find a gap to fill and those "unfashionable" clubs have been intentionally weakened.

The grading clearly shows there are more than enough clubs who could make a go of it in Super League than there are places, even if they expand it (which they won't, and in my opinion they shouldn't). Therefore it is unfair to block some clubs from entry on anything other than results on the field.

A problem I can see with this idea is at the end of seasons people are going to get the spreadsheets out rather than concentrate on the action, itll be like 'if Cas win their last game and move up a place and open a new disabled area and Tolouse lose the score will go up 0.15' yawn

And then the SL chairmen will have another meeting in the captains nest and declare more loop games are the answer and steer the boat back towards the iceberg