Its gone because the majority of the clubs being suggested as merged are already in , or will be shortly in SL , and the rest of us dont matter

I wonder if the merger has to be of two existing championship clubs?

Coventry Bears merge with Coventry Dragons and hey presto, they're in the championship, with double funding too.

There's probably some truth to that...but don't get big headed

That was my take on it as well , otherwise I just dont see where these ' new ' clubs will come from ?

TBH, the only successful sports mergers I can think of are of teams moving into the professional ranks (UTC and St Ésteve to form the Dragons in SL and Inverness Caledonian merging with Inverness Thistle to enter the Scottish Football League as Inverness Caledonian Thistle – but they are the only two successful mergers I can think of: in general I have grave doubts)

I left out the Australian ones because, tbh, I don't know enough about them to comment.

Dagenham & Redbridge merged and have turned two ordinary outfits into a pretty good club - their success has been impressive I would say ?

I wasn't aware that Dagenham and Redbridge was a merger - though I suppose the name is a bit of a clue

Redbridge themselves were also a merger between Leytonstone/ilford and Walthamstow. And as you might have guessed, one of those two clubs was also formed by a merger....

Rushden and Diamonds were another merged professional football team of recent years.

mergers almost killed RL in australia

if our game wasnt so strong they almost certainly wouldve

mergers are wrong 99% of the time

RL is about traditions, you cant really merge two heartland clubs

a merger of wakey and cas would be a plastic club

with saints in the nrl they basically took over illawarra, who got nothing out of it. there are still disgruntled illawarra fans today

the tigers is a more happy merger but i dare say either balmain or wests could get similar crowds on their own if their finances were good

they told souths to merge, they refused and after court action were allowed back in, and they currtly have amongst the highest sydney crowds

manly went into a disasterous merger with norths, and when it failed the manly club got stronger on their own

Who actually mentioned anything about merging Batley/Dewsbury or Wakey/Fev?

As far as I can see these four are/would already be competitive in the Championship, and meet the new criteria.

and why would Hunslet want to merge with Bramley ?

That combination was used by me to illustrate a point.

Apart from double funding, I can't see any reason.

Why would Hull want to merge with Gateshead or Huddersfield with Sheffield?