10 Teams, top 4 Playoff.

1 vs 2 [Winner to GF, Loser to week 2]
3 vs 4 [Winner to week 2, loser eliminated]

Week Two

Loser Game One vs Winner Game two

Week Three

Grand Final [Winner week one vs Winner week two]

Whatever the outcome, I'd like to see more emphasis on finishing top of the league and less play-off places. Too many teams are happy to just finish in the 8 and have a play-off game to look forward to.

The number of teams in the playoff is nowhere near as important as the number of teams in the league. The latter dictates the former.

12 teams is balanced and worked for years. 10 teams wouldn't mean less games, it would probably mean playing everyone three times. We've already tried that and nobody liked it.

If the money was there for a SL grant of 1.5mill I'd go for a 14 team comp with at least two of the teams being from France (pref three)

Personally, I'd go with a 14 teams Super League with a 6 team play off system. But if we had to go down to 12, I'd eliminate both London (poorest team on the pitch) and Bradford (dire financial state). Having said that, neither of these two will be eliminated because the RFL still seem to think London can work, and they won't get rid of Bradford. So I can see Salford and either Wakefield or Castleford (depending on who get's their ground sorted first) being dumped into the championship, if 12 teams is a nessessity.

Why does it always have to be an even number? I would go with 11 or 13.

In the current format, 14. I guess I'm biased though as I want room for my team to be included.

Well, you won’t be on your own.

Supporters of the top clubs, on the whole, will want less, those at the bottom about the same & those outside more, or two leagues of ten.

Then there are the big club zealots, who’d be happy with a league of four, playing each other endlessly throughout the season ad-infinitum .

In my opinion and many others as well, there just isnt the talent available to sustain 14 top flite teams. Which is why I am surprised so many people have voted for a 14 team league but each to there own and as somebody stated earlier it is effectivley safeguarding your team, whoever that may be in SL.

If you take in to account playing ability, stadium quality, finances and attendances then London would drop out and also bradford (takeover depending) but the more likely teams to drop would be salford and cas to form a 12 team league!

2 leagues of 10 would be my personal choice however that would be too radical a step in such a short space of time so a 12 team league would be a good compromise.

The key to a successful SL imo is a high quality fully professional 2nd tier, so teams promoted dont take as long to adapt and relegated teams dont completely walk the championship. However this is far easier said than done and would require 10s of millions of pounds of investment.

Having our TV deal split between several broadcasters could increase revenue but i doubt this is possible. 4 televised games a week split between FTA channels, sky, espn and premier sports would be brilliant in terms of revenue and sponsorship.

An even number of teams is required if you want to have a magic weekend

And on what basis do you form that opinion?

dont offer either anything off the pitch and poor fan bases and terrible on the pitch especially cas

Wow. Disagree completely on both points. Poor this season but generally we've done quite well. Attendances are steady. As for offering nothing off-field that's just naive. Glad you weren't judging licences if you're taking everything at face value based on limited knowledge.

The RFL appeared to do that

Of course your glad. If SL became a 12 team league next season or come the next franchise period, what advantages would Cas have above other contenders?

Leeds, Wigan, Wire, Saints, Hull, Catalan are all dead certs to be in the league.
Huddersfield, Hull KR are both probables to be in the league
Salford, Wakey, Cas, Widnes, Bradford and London would be fighting out for the remaining 4 spots.

The RFL dont want to get rid of London or Bradford because they both add something to the league in one way or another. This is pending on Bradford sorting out there financial mess. They are big club that offers a lot to SL. London is the RFL love child so wont dis own them.

That leaves 2 from Widnes, Cas, Wakey and Salford. Widnes have the biggest backer and a decent stadium so they would get in.

That leaves 1 from 3. Although Salford have a new ground its still pretty poor and they offer little on the pitch as well as off it even though they have a massive potential to tap into being just outside manchester. Apparantly they are on the brink of administration which doesnt help there cause but are not as big a club as bulls so will get less help from the RFL. Nobody would really miss them that much, compared with other teams.

So that leaves a toss up between Wakey and Cas. Wakey are further a long with there new stadium, better on the pitch and imo more potential to challenge for playoff places.

So unfortunately for you thats bye bye Cas. Just my opinion but thats how i came to it!

Which 2 clubs do you think would be dropped?