These expansion/league format threads are hilarious.

Why so? Are you from lowly Leigh?

Crazy to go to 14 teams, we’ve not enough quality players at the moment to provide 12 teams. It’s obviously a gamble by the RFL to get Toronto and Toulouse in the comp and the usually exemption of these 2 teams from relegation for 2 or 3 years.
In 2019 Toronto and Toulouse will need around 40 new players of the right standard, where are these coming from, will it be from the shallow pool of players in the U.K. or an increased quota of overseas players.

I believe Salford, Widnes and Wakefield would be the teams facing the biggest challenge of submitting a winning licence application. All are struggling through the gate and lack a sugar Daddy.
As stated my preference would be two tens, that brings London and Avignon into the mix plus any US interest

Spot on. And I think we all know the answer to the last question. Then we can all go back to bitching about over the hill Aussie imports, and the whole debate about whether 14 teams should go back to 12 teams can start again.

This rumour has been doing the rounds for a while now possibly a year.

I see were you are coming from and kind of agree, 14 teams home away, no magic weekend straight 26 games 6 team playoff for me, one up one down, but promotion is based on licensing, you must bring something to the top table, and any side in super league regardless of league position can be relegated if they are not ticking the 3 main boxes, attendance, stadium, player development. all super league clubs should also me able to demonstrate self funding, tv revenue should be icing on the cake not reliant on this.

Can someone let me know when this fake idiot is off here...Bye

So as a club you've failed miserably throughout your history to be a genuine top side so now your only option is to play the franchise card. You really are a sad little pretender club with delusions of grandure.

You want our spot in SL win it like men in the pitch rather than being a cowardly sneak thief.

In fairness though you are a mirror to the game - totally lacking in morals and flushed with self interest.

Please don't come on here bleating like you lot always do when your spot goes to some club in the good old USA because their franchise was better than yours and that the Wigan area already has a much bigger and better club in SL - think on.

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Maybe I should have added decision imminent. "wire-quin wrote

Maybe I should have added decision imminent.

It is just a wind up pr1ck, IT should be banned from RLFANS.....

Might be missing something here but you ask a question and I provide a polite reply, try it someday instead of the childish abusive sheite your thick gob spouts

very constructive, I feel much wiser now

THat looks ok on a piece of paper but, ultimately you will end up with clubs that cant perform on the pitch being protected because they have shiney seats.Remember Sheffield or, is that Huddersfield ?
Apart from Wigan, Hull FC, Wire Leeds and Saints, the rest of SL would have to go, as they all fail to tick one of your boxes.
Just like in football, TV funding is the bread and butter of most clubs income and a long way from being icing or cherries on the top of the cake and it's ok to say, let's relegate certain clubs but, who are you going to replace them with.

There would be a major issue with replacing ANY club with another club say, from the championship, that may have been getting 3/4000 fans for their home games but promising to get 10,000 if they get into SL.
Not having a pop at Leigh, as they certainly deserved their shot in SL but, due to the huge step up from the Championship, it could be argued that they offered less to the comp than the relegated club, KR.

Promotion and relegation have to be decided on the field of play and not by men in suits who can fix the criteria to progress their own agenda.

THe problem with RL is that there is no fecking plan and the sport continues to stumble along, looking for innovative ideas, which they dont stick with for anything like long enough.

Anyone with half a brain could see that cutting the numbers in SL from 14 to 12, was wrong and low and behold, 4 years later the talk is of needing 14 clubs in the top flight.

Also, IF the sport is keen to expand, the current 3 x 8 system is quite ridiculous.

Again, as Leigh found this season, getting to SL is only the start of the battle and with the current system, ANY promoted club will inevitably end up in the "qualifiers" and in real danger of facing the drop the following season.

It does look like another knee-jerk reaction from our beloved leadership team.

Has anyone ever seen a long term plan from the RFL to improve the game - I sure as hell haven't. It's time we appointed someone who could actually lead this sport forward and not just jump from one hair-brained scheme to the next every couple of years.

If 14 teams is the way forward then show us the long term plan that puts a structure in place that allows rugby league to develop and expand. Sadly I won't be holding my breath as I don't believe that it will ever appear under the current regime.