don't forget the Dalai Lama...that b'stard has a lot to answer for

The 2 x10 structure must be the way forward. We must improve the intl product and a more intense SL1 gives that. We must expand and the second tier allows ambitious teams a stepping stone - eg Toulouse. We must give the ambitious Championship teams a goal before it dies - look at yesterdays Championship gates, none broke 1000.

Two full time tens with £500k to SL2 and 1 up 1 down between them, and a 3 year franchise application to SL2. Expand to 12/10 then 12/12 when prudent to do so.

You keep banging on about this.
It doesn't matter how many times you state it though as it will never be anything but pie in the sky nonsense!!

I will keep going back to it as it is the only way forward, it is like a snowball rolling down a hill.

But it isn't
You would have a 10 team SL and then a championship by another name.
How hard a concept is that to grasp?

No, you would have two full time divisions containing 20 clubs, with the cream rising and the sheeite falling. If you think there are 6 FT teams in the championship then the moon is made of cream cheese afterall.

Police the salary cap properly and make sure every team can spend the full amount, and no more than the full amount. If you can't afford full cap you don;t belong in SL.

One of the guys on Backchat was spot on about one of the criteria being able to pull in a crowd of 10.000 minimum.
Theres no reason why an elite comp of 10 teams cant get an average home crowd of 10,000 for each team.
There would maybe have to be radical changes.
i.e. the idea of Salford becoming Manchester, team mergers etc. etc.... (only examples before I get berated)

I suppose this point of view is easier from a supporter of a team who would almost certainly be in the elite 10, but I honestly think for the sake of the game both comps need to be improved.
Also by making the national league stronger (or the idea of the 2nd SL league) there could be potentially more/closer/better games to be televised for both comps.

Having a few less games would be good to keep RL in the summer as much as pos too.
as a summer sport it starts in feb in snow, and the GF is almost always raining in october.

Out of interest. How does the format of the challenge cup work at the moment? i.e how many teams start off in the draw, and when do the super league teams then get put into the draw?

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The worry in my view is not the number of "blow-out" scores in the regular season (you're going to get those) but the number of blow-outs in the play-offs, between the so-called "elite" clubs.

In last season's play-offs, we saw four of the nine games end in a winning margin in excess of 30 points, including two "nillings". That's the worry.

The top teams beating the dregs of the league doesn't bother me, but when you have the fourth best team in the league losing 47-0, 6th beating 7th by 50 points, 5th beating 8th by 32 points and 2nd beating 6th 44-0, then you have a problem IMO.

Let's be honest, last year's play-offs were pretty forgettable apart from one great semi-final at the Halliwell Jones.

I agree 100%...all the game needs is 10 teams in the elite averaging 50,000 fans each weekend and a sprinkling of pixie dust on those clubs outside the top leage to ensure that their fans don't drift away as they have done for 100 years when the team they follow drops out of the elite

Same as happens now then, but with less teams falling away.

At least things have improved. Before Super League we had a Two Tier competition. The Wigan were in the top tier, the rest were in the lower tier.

i've tried to forget about that one.