Hope not - why would it?

3 games each day.

Any 2 from 5 to get releagted. Broncos, Castleford, Wakefield, Widnes, and Rovers.
More has beens and never was players from Australia = less invesment in junior development.
GB have never won an ash's series or a world cup with P & R in place
Even less chance of finding a sponsor for super league now with the competition shrinking.
There will be no increase in sky money when the present contract runs out. There even might be a reduction in sky money = the game might have to go back to being part time = the better players moving to union = less sky money = less club sponsorship money as reduction in people watching the game on sky.

What purpose does it serve?

And given the reintroduction of P&R, it'll skew the fixture lists giving some teams an advantage over others.

The fixtures will have be random, otherwise you are right about advantage.

There's pluses and minuses to both ways of doing things, but I can't help feeling p&r might just spark some enthusiasm back into the game. End of the day a competition should be a competition. With such a large play-off contingent and absolutely nothing to play for in the bottom half of the division - the league season itself just seems to be going through the motions these days. Scraping into the playoffs is more about sharing an extra pot of money for most clubs, rather than believing they're actually in with a chance of some silverware.

Added to this - however many people deny it - whilst we have licences, SL is a closed shop. What have the likes of Leigh, Halifax, Fev etc actually got to play for when even financially imploding SL clubs are allowed to remain with barely a slapped wrist?

For every Catalans or Widnes that have benefited significantly from the licence system, there's a hell of lot more clubs who's potential for progression has been halted. Even if it's a single play-off between bottom of SL and top of the championship, it's a massive incentive for championship clubs to achieve and conversely SL clubs to avoid. The path to the top is re-opened and we can still have the salary cap, the overseas/fed players rules and stadium and financial obligations in place to at least [itry[/i and stop clubs going t*ts up.

There’s going to be a fair few clubs sweating over next season.

Probably up to half of the current clubs could be in the bottom two at the end of 2014, depending on recruitment & injuries.

I can see teams breaking the bank in an effort to avoid the drop & expect further Administrations to ensue.

It will also be interesting what happens regarding the fixture list at the Magic weekend, personally I would go for a live draw ala the C.C, because other than that supporters will be up in arms if their team gets a perceived un-preferable draw.

Magic weekend should be based on league position 1v2 etc, only fair system.

I'd give the 12/2 8/3 split a go. I think having magic weekend as the split week would be a great spectacle.

If we stick with a straight 12 team league then I would go with top 6 playoffs and magic weekend as last 16 of the cup with the 12 SL teams going in at that stage.

Top of SL2 at the end of the regular season is promoted with a 1 year exemption

Bottom 2 finishers in super league (which could be 10th and 11th) added to next 4 placed teams in SL2 for a grand final series to playoff for the other sl place which receives no exemption.

Then so-what? Maybe it's times clubs learned to look after themselves properly and not do this kind of thing any more. If they do, **** 'em - they can go bust.

Yes we should have strict financial rules and guidelines, but we can't keep bending the competition itself to protect clubs from themselves any more.

I was thinking that myself. The pairing-up for Magic Weekend could be critical.

I’m not feeling sorry for the teams who are prepared to spend what they haven’t got, in order to stay at the top table, just that next year they will IMO.

Any clubs on the edge of administration are more likely to go pop this year now to get the points deduction out of the way whilst it doesn't matter. Points deduction next year would severely hamper their chances of not being bottom.

All of a sudden 2014 season becomes very exciting.

For the good of the future of the game there has to be a SL team in London, not just because I support London. Not because of Sky and advertising but the only way for the game to get bigger is with a decent international game. We haven't come close to beating the Aussies for years and the player pool has to expand for this to happen. It won't if the game retreats to M62, there has to be a pathway to the top of the pyramid down here.

Forget P & R and do franchising as in Aus, merge Cas and Wakey to form one strong club and some others. Stop living in the past and look to the future.

London might not survive another season, that could put the mockers on Magic anyway.