Should happen say in the next week. They've already been told they're in.

just a thought but how can Gloucester be the newest team when they werent one of the seven teams earmarked at the beginning?

It's the Bristol bid shifted up the road.

ahh right

Think the people calling for cuts are the ones living in cloud cuckoo land.

Have you ever tried supporting one of these proverbial lower league clubs you want to cut? How about you stick your own side in the Championship, let the lesser clubs stay in the elite, take all the SKY money so they can build a SL standard squad and the tip-top facilities and then we can have the fair competition you all want.

Thought not.

None of this hypothetical change could happen till the current Sky deal runs out. And if we averaged the league places or points accrued between 2013 and 2016, when that current TV deal runs out? The ten highest placed clubs would make up Super League in 2017.

That would not be a fair way of doing it at all.

No club would go for ten teams. TV deal wouldn't pay the same for less games so SL cash would be reduced. Equally, no club is going to only play 9 home games a drop of 5 home games in terms of income.

It would be a stupid, crass, ridiculous decision.

In your personal opinion, of course.
Sky would have in effect 20 'Super League' clubs to cover, as I'm sure there would be an audience for the clubs in the second, and maybe even third tier. Don't increase thr price of season tickets, but keep them at the same price and include Challenge Cup games.

I'd rather have 3 divisions of 14.

Who would the other two clubs be?

I'd gradually build up to it but reckon my extra 4 would be whoever misses out of Coventry and Oxford, Medway and for the other 2 go up north (Chester? Preston?) or perhaps Nottingham or another Welsh club. Make it a 5 year plan.

Chester Gladiators are a really small club at present and I don't even know if Preston has a club. Medway have made incredible progress in such a short space of time. I think the way the RFL handled it thus tine is the path to go down. Invite clubs to present a case, thoroughly investigate it and then make your decision.