Your excitement is understandable after years of been refused a place at the top table, however, unless the S.C chasm between S.L & Championship isn’t vastly reduced I just can’t see how it will happen.

You can’t use a friendly against Wakey & a cup upset against Cas as proof positive.

Wait, what?

But it doesn't back up yours does it. End of the day you can only assume SL teams will win.

Until it happens we dont know

The system is probably going to be like this :-

After 11 Rounds, I'd assume 5 home & away plus M Weekend, the bottom 4 from SL go down to the Championship and then play the top 4 frm the Championship home and away, so that's 25 regular season matches, as you know it's 27 at the moment, and then I would have all 8 into the Finals Series, so you're playing for home field advantage. They should carry the points forward for those teams that stay in S League, but I wouldn't for the ones who are in the Championship after 11 Rounds, I'd carry the points over for the teams who go into Championship 1 though.

If you only have a 5 or 6 team Finals Series then one team may only play 1 match in a month. Have to make a big thing about winning the League Leaders Shield.

But at same time don't the likes if Fev, Halifax and Leigh DESERVE a realistic chance of promotion. They had more chance in licensing lol. The bottom 4 may "deserve" to get relegated for a couple of weeks, but is this going to help make the sport bigger better and more exciting...

As a fan I wouldn't be "upset" about finishing in the bottom 4 and playing Leigj, Sheffield etc, as I know we'll be playing in the top league the next season. I just wouldn't be prepared to pay an extra £60 a month to see my team walk over a part timers. It's not exciting.

RL clubs only have small hardcore fan bases. The rest watch it because they enjoy it. I just can't see this structure been exciting or competitive in any way.

Are we really 17 or so pages deep and nobody has mentioned the plight of the 4/5 teams who'll be effectively kicked out of the league with the door slammed and locked behind them?

Or have I missed something here?

There are 28 teams currently in the Championship but only 24 (or maybe 23 plus Toulouse) for the new structure. Has there been mention as yet of how the teams dropped and the current Championship 1 sides could gain entry to the new set-up?

Also have they announced how the top 12 will be decided at the end of 2014?

I actually think this could work very well if thought through.

Firstly, they need to rethink magic.....why have it in the first round, to have an imbalanced fixture list, and then an imbalanced fixture list in the second round of 7 matches with 3/4 home and 4/3 away? Should be 11 home / 11 away, then magic AFTER the split as a first round. Then 3 home / 3 away which becomes your play off series (we cant have another series on top of that or becomes convoluted. Top 2 then to Grand Final. meanwhile the lower 8 play off in a series without a GF, simply fighting for top 4 for promotion.

So in effect, we have a balanced set of 11 home and away fixtures, followed by a 3 home / 3 away / 1 neutral play off series to determine top two.

I would also go back to a Boxing day start and bring back some tradition. 22 games plus 5 rounds of the cup takes you to the end of June. Challenge cup final should then take place at the end of June, followed by an international break in July for 4-6 weeks (which also gets maximum exposure due to lack of other sporting competition and so we can have a summer world cup in future like other sports.). We then come back for the business end of the season. 7 rounds followed by a grand final for the final two months in August and September. This then helps with ST sales - we have one for the general season, and then one sold for the play off series once fixtures are known, with a 4-6 week interval to sell tickets for the play off series!! Could actually be excellent if thought through IMO!

This also has the benefit of internationals not taking place into october / november etc, and though we start in winter we work up to the pinicale of the season being over summer and not autumn as it is now!

i think its to the general consensus that people want promotion and relegation back but judging on here that most people don't want it via this method. I have no problem with promotion and relegation as long as the RFL can financial support the relegated team for the following season. So just let the team that finishes last get relegated.

clearly it does 2 out of 3> than 1 out of 3. Considering you get beat by the worse super league team of the past decade as well.

Top 12 purely on league position.
I've no idea about the bottom of the championship

Thanks mate, is it definite? As a Widnes fan I expect the worst if it isn't down to league position. Not that I'd take us finishing above the bottom two for granted either mind you.

I think if the cap is thought out right enough then the second league will actually be very competitive.

Realistically, in terms of resources / support etc at the moment, what is the real difference between the top of the championship (if allowed to spend and get a fair divy of TV money) and the bottom of Super League? Not much in reality!!!

The group in yr one would probably be likely to be something like Leigh, Halifax, Sheffield, Featherstone, London, Wakefield, Castleford, & Widnes. Done in the right way, with a reasonable parity of spending, that could be a fantastic fight each year for the 4 spots the following season!!