So you like rubbish, go back to 1 up and 1 down has long has the team coming up has a good ground

The amount of different formats being muted on this thread alone show that there isn't a perfect model to follow.

Personally, I don't mind the 8's concept. But, if I was to play God for a moment and change the format; I'd go with a 14 Team Superleague, 26 league games a year as 30 is just too many, at the end of that have a top6 playoff over three weekends for the grand final, and a playoff for relegation/promotion from the bottom 2/top2. No Magic Weekend, it distorts the fairness of the comp & is nothing more than a cynical moneyspinner for the RFL. I'd much rather a free weekend be used to progress the International game.

Yep. A point reset would make the first 23 rounds pointless as you could just coast in and rest players at various points if you were secure, why would fans want to pay to see that.

I still say going back to the old top 5 place play off system would work, rewarding the top 2 yet giving 6th 7th and 8th a shot at the play offs at the time of Super 8's.

Definitely don't think we should reset the points. I could understand awarding double points for super 8s games so that teams 6, 7 and 8 still have a chance but not a total reset. Don't care either way about the LLS, it's meaningless

If you reset the points after 23 rounds, you have two separate competitions. That could be a good thing.

The first 23 rounds determine the SL Champions, making the Shield properly meaningful. It also determines who qualifies for Super 8s Premiership, with the Premiers being crowned at the Grand Final.

ATEOTD there's only so much kudos to go around, and this would slightly diminish the prestige of the the GF, but I think it could boost the league - which is currently just an elongated qualifier.

I do like the one we currently have, can be tweaked and improved upon with options like losing the MW and moving the cup schedule but it's certainly more interesting than others mooted which I personally think are rubbish.

If money were no object, I'd go with 20 teams in two conferences (say east and west). Home and away vs the other 9 teams in the same conference, home [ior[/i away against the 10 in the other conference, giving 28 fixtures. Conference Champions play-off against the runner-up from the other Conference in the semis.

Everybody accepts that in any league format there will be some games that might only make a difference to your chance of finishing sixth instead of seventh, for example, but that any game is worth winning in of itself. I can dream!

If the RFL do persist with resetting the points, which I don't agree with but think they will, it more or less creates two competions and I'd like to see more done to make the first competition (the first 23 rounds leading to the league leaders shield) more meaningful. I know there can't be a day out at Old Trafford for the winner of the leaders shield, but more of a financial incentive could be made to even things up and make teams take the first 23 rounds seriously.

I've no idea how much a team wins for winning the leaders shield, or how much for winning the Grand Final, but make it so say 40% of the prize money goes to the shield winner, and 60% for the winner of the grand final. Still makes the grand final the bigger event, but means it's not just a hubcap and a handshake from big Nige for the shield winner!

We could just go back to having the league champions crowned, after everyone had played each other twice (once at home and once away) and then have a play off competition for the top 8 and possibly a plate competition for the bottom 4 (plus the top 4 from the Championship), which could also be used to decide any promotion/relegation.
There is so much ing about with our game that, it's becoming meaningless TV fodder.

As for more Thursday games, search meaningless TV fodder.

Spreading the matches over 4 days is stuffing the actual paying fans big time and we wonder why attendances are dropping.

Nobody minds an occasional change to their weekly "habit" but, Trinity for example have only 5 games at their "regular" Sunday kick off time and we dont like playing on Thursday nights

9s shouldn't replace the magic weekend. It makes money and sky love it.

I admit it is aspirational (<cough> pipedream <cough>icon_wink.gif and based on a premise of having more money than we do.

But on the other hand Bradford, London and Hull KR have all been SL teams in the recent past, and it'd be nice to think that there's potential in places like Sheffield, Toulouse and Toronto, for example.

Even football struggles with Sky and their demands wrt scheduling and kick off times so it's not just us that struggle to grow a pair. Whilst I understand the frustrations let's not forget how crucial tv money is.