I particularly like the fact that the two teams who finish ninth & tenth in S.L after the regular rounds are rewarded with four home ties in the Super 8s.

Ha ha, rewarded for finishing ninth or tenth.

They have finished ahead of 11th and 12th placed teams so why not?

They can still be relegated unlike 8 and higher so not that great.

Because the top four teams from the Championship should get the extra home game, as a reward for finishing in the top four.

This is where i think the system will fall down.

In both examples, that's the benefit of doing well enough in the regular season to ensure you can afford to do that?

I fail to see the issue.

Im sure for the first half of the season all clubs will be going full out to get top 8 but once the top 8 starts to become clearly out of realistic reach for the 3/4 clubs cut adrift (and this could quite easily be sorted with 8-10 games to play) then watch those sides start to turn their focus to the second phase and we will see some real drubbings.

just a hunch.we will see

I just give up, it's a farcical system. Another RL gimmick that will last 3-5 years at most hate to be negative but just don't get it, and if I don't how will casual fans and outsiders get it.

The only good thing is this is RL so give it a few years and we will have some other new innovative structure that will supposedly sort the games problems out.

Plus as a fan if a successful club all we have to do is scrape into the 8 and then play from there. May as well only start going to games after the split as Many fans of the over top 3-4 clubs.

Seems somewhat unfair that there is a massive salary cap difference. How are teams in the mid eight going to compete against sides with 00,000's of pounds more to spend on the squad?
1mill v 1.9mill, hmmm level playing field then?

Well, if im reading things correctly points from the regular season are carried over so the top 4 could already be a closed shop if those sides have been smashing the rest of the league for 23 games.teams 5 to 8 could very quickly have nothing to play for and we could again see drubbings.

I will give the new system time, but can I see it being used in 10 years time? No.

I think the gap between the top 8 and the rest will increase year on year.

Te RFL were too stubborn I realise they made a mistake with licensing and 8 team play-off and go back to the system that worked.

So we have a competition called 'The Qualifiers' who dont actually qualify for anything, its a promotion competition for the next season.

a 'Million pound game' which doesnt have a prize of a million pounds.

a league called 'The Championship' and a trophy called 'The championship Shield' which isnt contested by the top clubs in 'the championship' they qualify for 'the qualifiers' but is awarded to the 5th best side in the Championship.

We have a competition called Super League that is contested by 12 clubs, except 4 of them finish the season in 'The Qualifiers' to try and qualify for the same league they started the season in, while the other 8 qualify for Super League and attempt to qualify for the Super league play-offs(which 4 teams qualify for by finishing in the top 4 of an 8 team league they qualified for by being top 8 in 12 team league with the other 4 dropping in to 'The Qualifiers')

Agreed

Although it may not be ideal for some of the big names o drop out of the Challenge Cup in the earlier rounds, the top 8 will only need to win 3 games to get to Wembley and it will become even more difficult for the lower ranked clubs to make it

It didn't work though did it? That's why they changed it.

I agree that the top 8 play off was a mistake but I think the franchising system wasn't given enough time, and this year apart from the 2 basket case clubs at the bottom the rest of league is becoming more competative. For example, when was the last time we had 5 or 6 teams battling it out for the top spot. It's not perfect but it would probably have been beneficial to RL in the long term.

I'm not a fan of the new structure but I'm quite excited to see how it pans out, whatever happens I just hope it's given longer than franchising has been given.