Rumour has suggested so, yes... but this is the first article I've seen which provides a bit more meaty evidence.

I can understand from a club point of view that if they have made medium / long term business planning & financial decisions (both infrastructure & on-field) based on a continuation of licensing, then they are right to question any change.

Perhaps 50% of SL clubs still live year by year and therefore aren't too bothered by any changes.

It's going to be an interesting week. So the RFL has finally realised they're doing a terrible job, but it looks like it's too little too late. The game needs a complete overhaul, not just some new three leagues of 8 rubbish... I do find it interesting that Leeds don't seem to be saying much in all this...

edited for a more true accuracy!

You can't move the goalposts so radically at such short notice. There's a lot of debate going on over the World Cup in Qatar. It's 9 years away. If the RFL were running it we'd probably be having meetings a few weeks before the tournament.

I think you're wrong.
All of the experts on here would have pointed out the pitfalls long before the vote in favour of Qatar, which does seem utterly ludicrous btw.

Whatever the pros and cons, this was just what we DIDN'T need in the build-up to the WC.

Well if the RFL want to press ahead with something several clubs disagree with the clubs didn't have much choice about acting now. If the RFL were hoping they 'd keep quiet until after the WC and thus implicitly accept whatever proposal the RFL want to implement in the meantime it looks like they misjudged that one.

Breakaway my arriss, the sport ain't big enough. It's also not big enough to be divided by policy ie franchising
I don't love the three eights but its better than we have, two tens is logical until we are capable of two twelves etc
I am glad everyone now feels franchising is dead forever

It's no surprise, a number of clubs believe a ten team SL with all the sky money being split between the lucky ten is the way it should be.

Whilst it is hard to argue the rfl are doing a good job running SL it is equally hard to have any faith in clubs who can't run themselves successfully having much more success!

A split in the game is the last thing we need, a new set up at rfl with some fresh ideas and new blood is the better way to go.

My tens would be £1.2m and 700k 27 games

Interesting.

Will sit back to see how it unfolds. What I find intriguing is the clubs that are allegedly unhappy. Nearly all the top clubs, in fact it is all the bg guns.

...Except for leeds.

What is Hetherington's agenda?