I know winning fees, what a pain. I remember Highfield (I think) sacking their coach because they broke a 23 game losing run and the directors had to pay £110 winning pay each.

Your lot will be alright. The Championship 1 is a struggling comp anyway, this could spark some life into it.

Travelling to all four corners of Britain to watch what is in effect a back door way of being relegated to the amateur ranks is just what we need.
The RFL have tried to cure the lack of meaningful fixtures in CC at the expense of CC1.

Am I missing something here? I'd have thought an increase in numbers to Championship and Championship 1 would be a good thing as more fixtures can be played to increase revenue, along with expanding the game from the bottom up.

Or are all the traditionalists on strike today?

If they were to suddenly replace Leeds,W1g4n,Hull and Warrington with ( no disrespect to these clubs inteded ) Dewsbury , Rochdale , Workington and Doncaster into SL , would it improve things ?

Would attendances rise ? , would clubs be able to bring in extra sponsorship on the back of these clubs inclusion ?

Well that is essentially what they are going to do , all at once

Growing the sport will always be a good thing as long as its done right unfortunately they've gone about it the wrong way until now. good luck to all the new clubs that join the pro ranks and may the best clubs win on merit.

Who is going to be replaced?

The 4 clubs ( all probably heartland going off last years results ) that will be ' promoted ' to the Championship , leaving 2 ' historic ' clubs in with 8 Expansion/New clubs

So you think that the difference between the four promoted Championship 1 clubs and the four new teams will be equivalent to that between Wigan and Rochdale? That's ridiculous even by your standards.

I don't understand some of you, there's always cries to expand and build RL in this country yet in the same breath condemn any actual plans that attempt it.

I don't see how this is anything like replacing a SL giant with an unknown, nobody is being replaced at all as far as I can see. Promoting more clubs into a higher division at the expense of none is hardly a bad thing, is it?

Well yes actually , I do , ridiculous as you might suggest , it is , we have clubs that essentially have a hundred year history , and small but loyal fan bases , being replaced by clubs that haven't , ok change who for who , then , Batley,Keighley,white haven and Leigh into SL ?

I'd hardly describe , Dewsbury,Dale and Workington as ' unknown ' , let alone Doncaster

It just seems to be perhaps too much all at once , yet again a knee jerk reaction , rather than a long term plan

Ideally you have a pyramid structure to sport with small steps between levels , but this will further open up gaps within the sport

That's the plan, all tied in with the move to summer in the community game.