When are people going to realise that the RFL is being run by clueless twits. They wonder why they cannot get decent sponsors, and then they introduce a P & R system which puts a fragile London club at grave risk of relegation, and puts the whole competition at risk of becoming completely an M62 provincial competition. The problem with the current set up is that there are too many clubs, not that there is licensing. The rational reaction to the lack of competitiveness of the bottom segment of Super League was to drop two M62 clubs, not to drop licensing. But the RFL could not grasp the problem let alone the solution.

Nigel Wood is a village [delidiot[/del accountant with no clue on how to run a business, which is what professional sport is. His Chairman Brian Barwick has proven himself to be a total fraud, without any of the sponsor connections we had been promised by his appointment, and without a single idea on how to rejuvenate the game in the northern hemisphere. Compare Barwick with the former Chairman, Richard Lewis, who improved the game in many ways, including licensing, which provided stability and expansion into France.

More important, compare Wood with the Welsh businessman CEO of the NRL, David Smith. The NRL is rolling in money and Smith is now preparing to contemplate expansion -- within and perhaps even outside Australia.

The NRL has licensing, not P & R. The NRL exists in more than half of Australia and is likely to encompass all of Australia (esp. Perth and eventually Adelaide) in the near future. Its bold move into Melbourne has been a resounding success. It could not have happened without licensing.

We need a fans lobbying group which demand that the RFL maintains crucial expansion clubs in the top tier, and looks to creating more expansion clubs in the top tier.

Well I'd join but the problem you have is the 98% of fans who'd join the rival "Don't expand until every service station on the M62 has a team in superleague" lobbying group.

Bottom 2 between Wakefield, Salford and Bradford. You read it here first!

No chance. London will finish bottom 2 and they will be relegated.

London will be 9th

I wasn't looking for any conspiracy whatsoever, although I think some change would take place IF these 2 clubs filled the bottom 2 positions.
The scenario is 2 fold with the first point regarding the "no favourites" aspect but, more importantly, should these 2 clubs get relegated it would be bad news for the game in general and it would certainly damage the image that we try to portray of the professional game in England and France.
London are in a horrible state just at present and appear to be clinging on by the ends of their fingernails.
However, Catalan have always been held up as a success story and it would be a disaster for the game if both were to drop from Super League.
On the other issues, you are definitely wrong and they have some serious questions to answer

keeping saying it wont make it happen!

It's ok, he's not counting the top 5

We don't even have our full team in the country with 7 players still waiting for visas. We'll be 11th; or 10th if Bradfold fold.

How can you have 7 players waiting for visas? does the quota not apply to you?

3 are Kolpak registered.

so? Last i heard it was 5 maximum combined, has this changed?

London and Bradford will go down.

Even though the middle 8 is devised to save the rlegated teams, teams from the Champioship are getting closer and closer by the minute.

Whoever finish 1 and 2 in the Champioship this year (eg) Leigh and Fev, they will be well prepared going forward as the rewards are huge financially based on previous seasons.

Really?
What was the worst London SL team in 18 seasons (OFFICIALLY THE WORST) dealt quite easily with the 2 dominant teams in the Championship last year when they met them in the Challenge cup.
Once the top 12 for SL 2015 is known, it will be almost impossible for a championship team with less foreigners and half the cap of the SL bottom 4 to get close to SL. I'm amazed that more championship club fans can't see this?

The top 2 of the championship get 650k and 500k this season.

this is Huge in comparison to previous seasons and will probably result in these 2 teams going FT to compete.

Londons team last season was not too bad in comparisons to this year. All your SL monies will be spent on filling the VOID as sustaining capital on crowds of 1200 is laughable. Both Leigh and Fev will average 2000 easily this year with very little away support and with minimum overheads.

Next season, 6 of the middle 8 will be competative, and it will no foregone conclusion as to who will be promoted.