quarters instead of halves. Breaks up a roll, removes a reliance on stamina ahead of skill, and would, i think result in much closer games.

in 2 more years there will be no decent overseas players heading to SL anyway. a much bigger Aussie salary cap and 2 new teams will see to that. then we will be able to test if having less imports is good or bad for the game!

It will be good in the long run. Even now its hard to argue what benefits a lot of the overseas players bring. Every team could name one of their imports to be dropped from the squad and they'd barely notice the difference if they were replaced by a youngster.

Amos Roberts.

That is a Solid, very solid idea. Lets face it, All the teams in Division 2 are not going to compete with division 1 for another 5 years.

10 teams - paid 1.3 million each from sky money
maximum oversea's quota 4 players.
Can only poach other teams players after they have spent a minimum of 3 years playing first team rugby.
First team rugby is achieved in one season after playing 5 games or more.

1. St helens
2. Leeds Rhinos
3. Warrington wolves
4. Widnes Vikings
5. Wigan Warriors
6. Hull FC
7. Hull kingston rovers
8. Catalan Dragons
9. Huddersfield Giants
10. Bradford Bulls

10 teams - 5.2 million gained for league 2
Maximum overseas quota 4.
Players trained by each academy must spend 3 years with their respective team.
Teams paid .5 million each season in sky money

1. Celtic Crusaders
2. Castleford Tigers
3. Salford City Reds
4. Harlequins
5. Halifax
6. Barrow Raiders
7. Leigh Centurions
8. Fetherstone
9. Toulouse Rugby
10. Wakefield Wildcats

Promotion and relegation in place for leagues 2 and 3.
Franchise application every 2 years for superleague and league 1.

Applicants must have won the league in one of those two seasons to be promoted
Applicants must be financially stable, and must have spent the entire cap allowance for 2 years.
Applicants need a stadium capcity of 10,000+

Salary cap to set at maximum of 1 million pounds a season. Breach of Salary cap revokes the access to sky money for the rest of the season.
No ability to de-register players.

Any thoughts?

Looks like Bradford are going to get a hammering tonight. The defence of some of these sides is just not good enough.

From cricket to rugby league on sky sports 1. A seamless weave of one team bitching the other. Records will tumble in the next 70 minutes.

They will if Ah Van has anything to do with it, whats he doing??

Going to Widnes thank God.

Bulls not giving in. Encouraging.

I don't know where your coming from with this. When they're good, they're the best team in the league at the moment. They've been off colour and Bradford have exceeded all expectations in getting back into a game even their manager had written off. Still wigans game but is teams would have fallen when they stood.

They're decent. A couple of their players are excellent and they have a good coach. That's probably enough to be the best team in the current league. I expect them to win this game, against an awful side, by 40 points. They are nowhere near, in my opinion, most of the Saints or Leeds teams of the last half-dozen years, or the Saints or Bradford teams before that, not to mention NRL teams.

But to hear the Sky commentators they're better than all of that. That's where I'm coming from.

Only Pat Richard's kicking is keeping this scoreline down now. Well done to Salford for staying competitive.

I think they'd stand up pretty well against Leeds but there was a Saints team not long back who would eat them for breakfast. However, I think they are a Very good side and whilst I'm not one to talk up the sky team they are always going to talk up the best team in the competition, even if Clarkey brings wigan up every five minutes even in games they aren't involved in.