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If that is what you think, it says more about you then it does me.

I don't know where you get your "ideas" from. They certainly aren't correct. When TWP got their promotion Toulouse were doing well and ambitious for promotion as well.

The RL papers spoke to Nigel Pearson and Eamon McManus about the future international make up of Superleague ........

Mr Pearson said that the the SKY contract covered "expansion" and SKY were understanding that the game here needed to accommodate expansion.

But SKY also needed "English content" to the tune of NINE ENGLISH CLUBS so your just plain wrong mate. No problem, I'm not having a go at you, just bringing the thread back to being on topic, factual and polite.

Thanks for that. Where have I heard this sort of thing being done regularly elsewhere

Your man is lining up for a return to SL next year to save the fixture list, and I hope in return Superleague will therefore not operate P&R next season.

It's the last season under the current TV deal so there's a good argument to suspend P&R until we know what the SKY deal is and what SL may have to look like.

And again getting back on topic there were thoughts coming from SL bosses that a reduced SKY deal could lead to a 10 club SL, they even pushed a bit of a vote on it if you remember the "2X10" thing......

Leigh getting a SL place and no relegation would be justice for Mr. Beaumont albeit what Leigh face 2022 will be in the hands of SKY....

It is good to see intelligent debate and conversation, you are keyboard warrior personified, I doubt you'd have the guts to say most of the things you do to people in person. Silly, sad old man.

Wow, talk about Irony

That current Leigh squad is not anywhere near SL standard. All the clubs you mention in your last sentence would beat Leigh comfortably.
As for the rest of your post, have you not noticed franchising finished years ago.

I think there was an argument for this a couple of years ago but a number teams have fallen in standards recently. There is more an argument for a 10 team league at present.

I don't think the issue is the player pool I think the issue is having enough financial stable and well run clubs. How many teams outside the top 5 can you honestly say are being run well at the moment?

14 clubs would just drag the standard of the league down further.

Regarding P&R vs licensing (which the OP suggested we should go to straight P&R), I have been saying for a while that we need some sort of hybrid of the two. P&R doesn't provide the stability that clubs need, the impact of relegation is enough to put a team out of business overnight. However, 3 years is too long to guarantee clubs a place in the league with no ramifications for poor on/off field performance.

We require some sort of ongoing review system where clubs are given a minimum and maximum league to compete in while any large change on the clubs operation (Crusaders moving to Wrexham, Bulls going bust) triggers an immediate review.

Another one of your anti Leigh post. I see you keep popping over to the Leigh board showing your constant jealousy. Give it a rest. Leigh WILL have a decent standard of a squad, whether we are in the championship or SL, So trot on little boy.

Very astute as League express feels that Covid and a much smaller 2022 SKY TV deal will see the radical change you predict.

Interested in your comments on that thread?

Leigh proved themselves 2017 but for one bad game. See the TV deal thread, it may be Superleage ends up at 14 and that could be because the number of clubs that survive both Covid AND a vastly reduced SKY TV deal could be as little as 14. Leigh are strong enough to survive..........

Note that Rimmer went cap in hand for government money. and apparently according to League express he's doing an Oliver Twist and intends to ask for more.

It may be more than 14 clubs survive so maybe we could end up 2 x 10. That has already been proposed in the real world.

One thing seems certain given the TV deal news, and that is the reduced SKY deal 2022......

Which is certainly not going to be watered down even more by splitting it 14 ways.....

So, Leigh make a few big signings (allegedly) and you want in ?

I'd be happy for Leigh to earn promotion but, if its for sale then, lets just see who has most money in their pockets.
Leigh did brighten up SL while they were there but, no more so than London, who were very unlucky not to survive, only getting relegated on the last day.
It could make a right mess of fixtures but, if Toronto aren't coming back (I personally thing that they will), SL will have to run with 11 clubs.
Maybe Magic could instead be used for one of the Challenge Cup rounds (when the SL clubs join in) ?

Sorry but, it's a no from me.

I actually agree with this. I think we should call it the "Magic Challenge" Weekend.