This means NO PLAYOFFS AT ALL! The league leader IS the SL champion (as it should be).

FWIW you'll lose 7 games maybe 8 if they scrap magic as well and stay at 12 teams. Therefore, go up to 14 teams with instant promotion and relegation for bottom/top team (or maybe a one off qualifier). You would then only be 3 games down. Just enough to fit in an extra international game or two. And while I'm at it, bring the CC forward.

Scrapping the playoffs and Grand afinal would be absolutely stupid, it is a major sporting event and has been a massive success, Rugby League for the majority of its existence has determined its champions by a playoff and final system.

Lennigan had decided it's back to one up and one down . You can all have your opinion but you are wasting your time . The supporters will never be asked what they want whist arrogant Lennigan is running Wigan . Even Wane is fed up with him .

'Making Your Mind Up' by Bucks Fizz feels more apt.

I’ve loved reading comments like this. Three club chairmen were sat with Elstone today and apparantly 11 clubs to one voted in favour of the changes but it was Lenagan and Wigan who made the decisions



The bitterness towards Wigan has absolutely no boundaries!

Hetheringtons not a happy chap!

I'm quite concerned about the rumours/news emerging. I was originally supportive of the SL clubs taking a more directive role, because it seemed to me that they had perceived the problems correctly.

The problem we have is that there are too few clubs which are large enough, or have the potential to be large enough. SL needs more clubs who can compete for honours, generate good crowds and profile upon which to sell decent TV rights, and produce future players through a good talent development system. So the key questions we had facing us were:

1) How do we increase the competitiveness of SL?
2) Linked to that, how do we grow the game in terms of players, fans and sponsorship?

Based on the rumours emerging today, the answers appear to be:

1) How do we increase the competitiveness of SL? We won't. We'll just chuck out two of the less competitive clubs and hope nobody notices that there are still a majority of also-rans in SL with no incentive to improve.

2) Linked to that, how do we grow the game in terms of players, fans and sponsorship? We won't. We'll just take the existing fanbase, playerbase and sponsorship, and try to concentrate it amongst 10 clubs rather than 12.

Essentially they're hoping to spread the same jam thicker, rather than making more jam. That's a recipe for the sport's demise into increasing irrelevance, and not in the long-term either.

Probably because this is the first time the SL or RFL have said 'no' to him. He's just having a tantram.

Big changing news about league structure etc. As at 7pm no reports of it on Sky RL website. Shows how little Sky actually think of the sport.

Hes not the only one not happy I think this might run a bit

It's called democracy. The RFL allowed the SL clubs to make these decisions, and now, just because he lost the vote he's whining and the sky is falling in. Sounds familiar.

You misunderstand my point, he’s not the only person unhappy about this (not me by the way, we m talking about other people in the game) the whole point being made is that this decision wasn’t made in a democratic way