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Probably when we have the money and players to support twenty teams, and twenty teams of an elite level rather than the 6 elite teams, 3 just about making it, 1 expansion team, 1 team building a new stadium and hoping it will be the catalyst for huuuuuuuuge growth, 1 which is massively overshadowed by its neighbour, and 8 who would be cannon fodder which is what we would have.

So that's a never then

Not necessarily. But it is a fairly long way off.

Only if by strength "off the field" is measured in posting continuing financial losses, since joining superleague

So which one is Quins ?

Yet you pick up on Hull KR and leave Saints, Wakefield, Huddersfield alone.


Shock horror. Our losses where around 250k this season almost 50k less then the previous year. Something that we've still improving on.

I assume he meant Edinburgh.

Just because it contains almost the same letters as what he wrote Edinburgh and sounds like "Edinborough" when said aloud.

Really hard to decipher that code.

Which one do you think?

Cannon fodder

Now if you'd put ' one that nobodies interested in ' it would have made it clearer

Ok. So which did you think was the expansion side?

Which one do you think ?

I think you knew damn well it was Quins, but thought you would indulge in some pathetic pointscoring and have an irrelevant dig at Quins for no real reason, by using your usually tactic of being deliberately confused which for some reason you think is clever but to everyone else makes you look like an idiot who has problems with very basic concepts.

Try this one...

Imagine it's down to you to decide on the 10 clubs, but you have the caveat that you can't include your own team. Be honest with yourself - you'll find it's as hard to do as putting a stamp on an envelope crooked.

FWIW, I'd go with the top 10 teams next season, and then create a meaningful Championship 1, 2 (and 3?) structure, with P&R back in place (1 up, 1 down) assuming the promotion team meets (clear and transparent) criteria for the league above.

Main reason this won't happen (soon) is the TV implications. The other problem is that 18 games isn't enough to generate sufficient income, so there'd need to be some other competition or variant (such as playing each other 3 times). Remember when we had a variant in that we played some clubs twice and some three times, with the structure being decided on previous season league positions?

Depends on which expansion you mean , SL or RL ?