All well and good, but, top championship club salary cap - £400,000 if they get dispensation, bottom SL club - £1,800,000. Championship overseas quota - 1, SL - 5.

You can't have teams playing with different rules in the same competition, that is what needs resolving if we are to have promotion and relegation. If we can't resolve this, don't have promotion and relegation

Next year Top championship clubs have £1m s.c and super league has 1.6m s.c - super league can have 7 non-fed and championship 5.

Not the same, but similar enough for it to be competitive...

SL is five isn't it?

Well that should cost her about a weeks housekeeping

£1m will be more than nearly all clubs in the Championship will turn over in a year! Aside from Bradford and London, Championship clubs will only be getting £500k (1st 2014), 400k (2nd 2014) and a sliding scales £350k downwards.

Quote: DemonUK "SL is five isn't it?'" Haven't seen anywhere suggesting it changes? Quote: DemonUK " B1a maximum of 7 players who satisfy none of the definitions of Club Trained, Federation Trained or are working towards either classification. a minimum of 7 Club Trained Players or Academy Juniors working towards that classification. the remainder being made up of Club Trained, Federation Trained Players or Academy Juniors working towards either classification. B1 www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... onal_rules

Quote: DemonUK "SL is five isn't it?'" Haven't seen anywhere suggesting it changes? Quote: DemonUK " B1a maximum of 7 players who satisfy none of the definitions of Club Trained, Federation Trained or are working towards either classification. a minimum of 7 Club Trained Players or Academy Juniors working towards that classification. the remainder being made up of Club Trained, Federation Trained Players or Academy Juniors working towards either classification. B1 www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... onal_rules

Super League, Super League, Super League, Super League

Its Rugby League, not just Super League

Nobody knows how it will pan out

SL 1.825 million plus up to 100k England squad allowance

825,000 is a significant difference plus overseas signings difference.

What I like about the middle 8 is that it addresses the inherent flaw with straight P&R, ie. the assumption that the top of the lower division are better than the bottom of the higher division and thus deserve the place more. For Championship teams to be elevated above bottom SL sides they must demonstrate it on the field in the new system.

There has never been that assumption. It is clear from when we did have p&r and the promoted team had to sign at least half a new team just to have any hope of being competitive that this isn't the case.

Promoting one team and relegating another who have never played each other demonstrates the assumption within the system. Having to sign half a new team just to be competitive demonstrates that it's a flawed assumption.

I very mch doubt p&r ever had anything to do with believing that the lower division club must be stronger than the top division club, certainly not in the SL era.

I'm not sure you've understood my point tbh. I'm not saying anything about what people believe.

No, promotion was a reward for finishing top of the second tier and an opportunity for the promoted club to ply it's trade at a higher level.
Being the sport of RL, this is not enough and we will soon have perpetual qualification for the top end of the Championship and lower end of Super League.

But once again, will the team in last in SL actually be spending that 1,825,000

As some late season signings by Saints has shown. Even the top side has not been spending up to the cap limit.