For the next round, if we keep the same number of UK clubs or expand will will need to increase player pool to support those clubs under the curent overseas players cap. Any club that does not produce its own players will not survive in SL. I expect that the RFL will make no announcement on this, as it will be a last minute decision with all the facts in hand. But I can't see how any club will make the SL in 2012 if they can't develop their own players - we're short already.

As to a link, more money is being made available to the Championship, there was an announcement on that, which you are as able as me to google for. There is increased televised Championship matches, the money for the Championship clubs comes from the new TV deal. Part of that TV deal is the higher profile of the Championship, of which TO is a part.

Link ?

So the RFL will look at the ' facts to hand ' and then make decision , that sounds suspiciously like ' make the rules suit what we want '

By the way , when you say clubs develop thier own players , do you meant Championship clubs developing Championship players or Championship clubs developing SL players ?

No chance once again we bend over for foreigners, if Tlouse had started in nl2 and worked up that would have been acceptable a bit but all nl2 clubs rejected them so nl1 teams showed how lily livered they are.

So:
- If they are included straight into SL it's unfair because they bypass the Championship.
- If they start in the Championship it's unfair because they bypass Championship1 AND it's too expensive for the other clubs to play them.
- If they start in Championship1 it's too expensive for the clubs to play them.

I suggest you either:
- Figure out a way to include a French club into the higher division which avoids the above problems.
or
- Admit that no matter how it happens you will be opposed to it.

Yes leave them where they are , unfortunatley they might not have anywhere else to play from now on as they seem to have p155ed off the other French clubs

What reasons were given for them not being allowed into the Lord Derby cup ?

I understand that the reason they couldn't enter the Lord Derby was that another team had been voted into their position which meant that the usual 32-16-8-4-2 format couldn't have been continued with.

So the Elite clubs we not willing to inconvienience themselves to help the club that has expessed a desire to move to a supposed better competition

Better hope they are a success or they might not let them back in if things dont work out