If Sky get fed up with RL you will probably see a return to P&R.

You're right.

Make a club's transition from the semi-professional ranks to the professional ranks dependent upon 80 minutes of rugby at the end of the season between part-time players and full-time players, and then give them exactly a year to become competitive in the full-time pro ranks, both on and off the field, signing players after the end of the season. And then make their continued full time status dependent on another 80 minutes of rugby after the season's ended, making 25 players unemployed if they lose.

Yep, it's certainly a simple idea.


Here's one that might actually work though:

Make a club's transition from semi-pro to pro status dependent on an overall assessment of the club, both on and off the field. Then give them a reasonable time – say more than two years – to prove they can successfully make the transition. Then have all the clubs – those in the full time comp already, and those wanting to join it – make their case for a place in the league and pick the best 14, or even more – if there's more than 14 up to the grade.

Wow, inspirational stuff.
You should work for the rfl

no wonder most of the lads at work give me stick for following RL

THB, I very much doubt it's for following RL.

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Heres how I see it.

I'm pretty good at my job.

But if I wasn't....I would expect to be sacked. Thats a fact of life.

It's doesnt matter what job you do in life. If you are no good at it...then perhaps you are in the wrong job.

So if a club finishes rock bottom of SL I would suggest that for whatever reason...the players are not very good at playing RL.

only one phrase

i bloody well hope one day it returns


in sl at this point i reckon there are about 10 dead games to play where
teams have nothing to play for, boy bet the crowds are going to be good for those!!


the employment issue does not enter in to it as all sl contracts are void if club loses sl status so players can move to promoted and/ or other clubs.

Teams have had a playoff place to play for. If they are now unlikely to make it then it is too bad. I don't see how it can be better for teams to be involved in a relegation battle, with all the consequences involved with failing, than it is to simply miss out on the playoffs meaning that you can plan ahead for next season.

So all the players of the bottom nrl club deserve sacking each year to do they?

Will there ever be P & R again? Answer - No, not whilst we have the current regime in charge of the game because the current system allows them to manipilate it to fulfill their expansionist policies.

They will tell you that it is to safeguard the lower league clubs from going bust but the only difference at the moment is that those same clubs that they are so worried about are heading for going bust trying to obtain one tick in a box towards the ten they require for a successful application.

Licences are issued every 3 years and lower league clubs have to appear in a Grand Final or win the NR Cup in that 3 year period to get a tick. When that 3 year period ends those that have achieved a GF final or won the NR Cup have it all to do again in the next 3 years to get that same tick again.

Only one Championship club, if any, will be given a licence in 2011 for the start of the 2012 season and yet we have about 5 or 6 clubs hell bent on spending money to get to a GF final this season and next. Widnes are in the box seat having won a NR Final and they have a superior stadium to all the others and yet these clubs are still spending money, for what?

Surely, some of those clubs should be saying we have no chance of a licence in 2011, so lets not spend money and wait for the next 3 year qualifying period? But, the way it is going several clubs will hit the buffers in there attempt to now merely fulfill one smal part of the application process.