You can’t have Magic Weekend with an odd number of teams in the league.

Like CMG I’d go with a 16 team licensed league of the current 12 plus Toronto, Toulouse, Bradford and Widnes.
To reduce fixtures with the aim to increase quality of have a team plays every other team once and then the teams from their half of the table a second time. This would give 23 league games including Magic Weekend. Top 8 playoff system.
Frees up space for our players to recover after games (like in the NRL) and gives space for mid-season internationals.

You can. It just means you have to have a second "extra fixture" (possibly on the road) and that one team won't be able to play at the event (so will have two on the road games)

Toronto, Tolouse, Bradford and Widnes would contribute nothing to an expanded SL.

WE all hate Leeds! Well I don’t never have. If Leeds Finnish bottom then they get relegate, natural justice, end of.

However anyone who doesn’t think that wouldn't be a disaster for the game and it’s finances is an idiot.

Biggest club, most money, most fans, big city, brilliant stadium - if we had a legion of similar clubs waiting to replace them then fine but we don’t. The nearest would be a resurgent Bradford but they are still a mile off.

I pray they stay up not just for selfish reasons but because they are a major part of the game as indeed are all the heartland clubs but this lot keep the rest of our turnstiles ticking.

Put simply I want Leeds to find form before they visit us in a few weeks and bring thousands with the, no denying we need the money as does everyone else.

Agreed, we need a strong Leeds, certainly more than we need London.

Agree with that. Leeds getting relegated is hilarious as a concept, but frightening in reality. As one of my favourite sayings goes, "it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye".

Hence why I said Leeds won't to down it would be suicidal for the game in general,
Also prompting Toronto will only apply financial strains on the poorer clubs which make them work harder to commit to the match program, I wonder if we get a club brave enough to say it won't travel and fore go the two points as some may have to go there twice in the season

Why would promoting Toronto apply strain to other clubs? Don't they pay for travel?

No club should have to travel 8000 miles for a league fixture it's ridiculous.

It is but pure logic seems to be beyond the shoe gazers on here - it would be ridiculous for a rich sport let alone one of the poorest team sport in the world.

Most clubs do or have organised a warm weather training camp abroad for several days when they can just stay in the UK. If they can afford to do that then they can go to Toronto for a game.

Licencing is the only solution. 12 teams for 2020. 14 teams for 2021 with the option of future expansion to 16 teams.

All teams will immediately have a good stadium (except London and Castleford) and a 6,000 plus fan base (except London and Huddersfield). London would be expected to rectify its defects of poor stadium and fan base within five years under the new international competition, Huddersfield will be expected to rectify its fan base, and Castleford will be expected to rectify its stadium problem, within five years.


[u2020 lineup (12 teams)[/u:

Wigan, St Helens, Warrington

Leeds, Bradford, Hull FC, Hull KR, Castleford, Huddersfield

London

Catalans, Toulouse/Toronto,


[u2021 lineup (14 teams) [/u:

Wigan, St Helens, Warrington

Leeds, Bradford, Hull FC, Hull KR, Castleford, Huddersfield

London

Catalans, Toulouse

Toronto, Ottawa.


[uFuture options (16 teams)[/u Add:

New York, Boston/Philadelphia/Montreal/Chicago