what a lot of poo, there is nothing wrong with the way it is now,of all the teams in the championship who would step up to replace anyone in sl no one is the answer fev,fax leigh just would not be able to cut it the support has gone to other clubs. we need to face facts we have only gone half way to the aussie model we need to go the whole way. new teams should be elected to join sl and then given 3 years to prepare for entry go from part time to full time,get finance/sponsers in place build their support up all with the help of the rl yoyo teams does not work P&R does not work in RL, it never has in the pro era and never will. this idea we are being given now will distroy at least 2 maybe 4 clubs just so the likes of leeds wigan etal can have a bigger cut of the cash.

Disagree. I can't imagine that Peter Deakin would have been better for the game at Red Hall than he was at Odsal.

SLE are responsible for marketing the competition - which is an entirely seperate remit to getting people through the gates at Headingley, Craven Park or Odsal in my view. The clubs should be making the job SLE / RFL easier, rather than sitting back and letting them take the flack.

The 14 Super League clubs are indivudial businesses. They're free to employ who they want, where they want and they have the same access to resources as every other club (in sofar as they are recruiting from the exact same job pool).

The only people who should be responsible for marketing the clubs are the clubs themselves. They're free to buy their own media, set their own prices and tailor their marketing to their own local audiences. The people who should be accountable for failing crowds or clubs struggling to make ends meet are the clubs themselves, not the RFL, and to say that the RFL should do "something" about failings at an individual club is letting the most culpable people off the hook. If those clubs could grow their crowds (both in terms of quantity and quality) and their revenue, the RFL / SLE job of finding commercial partners is a hell of a lot easier.

Anyone with an interest in marketing may have come across [url=http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread.htmlSeth Godin's idea of 'purple cows'[/url. It's a principle that to make your business and your marketing work, you have to do something remarkable and if you don't, you just look like every other boring cow that's grazing in the field. It's not a new idea or theory, but it's a good analogy.

That's exactly what Bradford did. They created and marketed a matchday experience that had never been seen in the UK before (let's ignore the debate about 'stealing Cougarmania' for a second). They turned a "turn up for an hour and a half" event into an all-day family event with colour, light and music. They created a 'purple cow'.

The problem with these ideas is that suddenly, everyone is doing them and, when every cow in the field is purple, they all just look boring again. Unfortunately, nobody at any club has come up with that next 'remarkable' idea, other than mass discounts. They're playing it safe and as a result, nobody is talking about RL any more (at least, not positively).

Exactly. Some fans, and sadly some people within the game seem to have got it in to their heads that if only there was P+R, if only the play-off structure changed, if only the person who was in charge wore a nicer suit everything would fall in to place. Its stupid.

Get out and sell your bloody clubs, stop waiting on a silver bullet and stop blaming the RFL.

1 - 4 different divisions of 10 teams

2 - Alter the salary cap in each division to suit every team's capability to afford the full cap in that division

This may mean having the ability to increase the salary cap in the top league to keep the higher quality players from exiting the league towards Union/NRL.

This may also mean the teams who now play in Super League that will go down to the 2nd division that are now operating at full cap will have to lose a few of their better players to the top division. This will make for a better top division.

3 - Top 4 playoffs for each division, 1 v 4, 2 v 3 then the final of the winners.

Simplicity towards the end of the year will put emphasis on the playoffs as the most important part of the season, fans will no longer be dissilusioned with the playoff structure, and will be more likey to attend them accordingly.

4 - Season passes to accommodate the semi-finals, but not the finals considering they already sell tickets convincingly.

Fans will have an even greater incentive to attend the semi-finals, and treat the playoffs as the most important part of the season.

5 - The RFL should assess the salary cap differences from division to division, the team who wins their division should then go under a review of their finances to see if they're eligible to be promoted. The bottom team of each division should be relegated depending on the decision made after the financial review of the promoted team below.

6 - Games from the top two divisions should be televised to make up the lost revenue from Super League not having its overly-elaborate playoff structure anymore.

7 - Also, more representative games to fill the spaces left in the calender that should be treated as competition for places in the England team.

That should do it.

False dichotomy. Look it up, or ask your teacher to explain.

Given the gulf between our salary cap and the Aussie cap, raising our cap to within affordable limits for UK clubs wouldn't prevent our talent going down under. So when that fails, what next: maybe we could build a beach with heatlamps and wave machines to replicate the surfing experience? So forget raising the cap to make our game more attractive.

Fiddling around (again) with league structures won't do anything to make the game more attractive either and some of the proposals will be so confusing as to put many people off the game anyway. It's difficult enough trying to explain the current playoff system.

Why? Do you need someone to explain what one is to you? Because that clearly isn’t a dichotomy of any type, never mind a false one.

Maybe ‘learning what things are before I try and use them’ could be a SMART objective for you?

We should definately do this. Even if it doesn't work at least we'd have a beach with heatlamps and wave machines to replicate the surfing experience.

How about Rugby League run as the world's first mass spectator computer simulation? We could have a virtual salary cap of a trillion pounds and it wouldn't cost a single real penny. We could cut down on injuries by fiddling with the settings, and referees would be perfect... and could have massive green mohawks or be dragons.

If the two tier, P & R system comes into being, and licensing is abandoned, there will be little prospect of expansion of the game. Rugby league will be become even more of a parochial Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria confined working class entertainment than it already is. As such it will increasingly be a source of ridicule lin the British media, and remain nonexistent in the French national media. Thus corporate sponsors in Britain and France will shy away from it even more than they do now.

If so Brian Barwick and Nigel Wood will go down in history as the men who eschewed visionary leadership, sucked up to the tin pot little clubs of the north, and in this way destroyed rugby league in Britain.

I am sure that Richard Lewis, seeing all his visionary innovations scrapped, will feel that he wasted a decade of his life trying to help a sport that is run by losers.

It's all on the hands of SL chairmen Jean.

That should read "in the hands".

think that should read in the hands of 4 maybe 5 of the most powerfull chairmen the rest will just follow suit depending on what is promised to them as when sl was first muted but then when it was done and dusted some were given a kick in the knackers and just told tough, the big 4 money men will allways get there own way in the end