Being owned by by a rich air travel magnate and being owned by the super-rich Mittal family. That's how.

I like the idea, but I do recognize it's not perfect.

But no system is.

The current system really over-rewards mediocrity.

The new system has brought up 2 issues which I agree with, as opposed to the hypothetical scenarios.

The 2 factual issues are the restart for the middle 8.
And the way you price a season ticket.

The second issue is easily solvable and should be well with in the sales and marketing teams capability for the clubs.

The first issue is tricky. You can't carry all the point over as SL2 teams at the top would have more points than 9th placed SL1 team.
Resetting to nil, gets rid of that.
But it then takes away the points, takes away any reward for the higher placed sides in both SL1 and SL2.

You would imagine that the gap in funding that SL1 sides get, will give them some advantage. I would not expect any change in the current 3 year programme as I think a 9th placed team would be far to strong to get relegated anyway.

But if it was an issue, something like Magic Super beetle said about fixing the fixtures to the higher placed teams advantage. OR maybe something like carrying a bonus point across. But that would take away from the competitiveness of the middle group.

I just think a team that gets into 9th will be far too strong to loose, so many matches that they get relegated.

I haven't read all posts in all the related threads, but no-one seems to have picked up on the point that there will be a 'million pound game' every year as in middle 8, 4th plays fifth for the final SL spot.
Perhaps the Championship teams best bet would be to go all out for this fixture, rather than trying to outdo the big boys over several games?

It's an idea, however that relies on the championship teams colluding.

If you did not go all out against the big boys and another championship team did and beat just one of them. Then they would be in the position to take that 5th spot, (or higher).

It's fine to say beat everyone around you, but you can't plan for other teams to just ignore the SL sides and so you can't ignore them either for fear of losing out.

That game should be good hopefully!

However it could be frustrating if a SL team finishes 5th and then beats a 4th placed Championship team in that game!

I agree with this, it's by no means perfect but no system would be. The people being heavily critical of this proposed system seem to not understand it and just want our system to be exactly the same as league football. When we have got a part-time semi professional second tier and a full time professional top tier it would be a massive step backwards to go back to one up one down P+R IMO.

Licensing was supposed to put us in a position where any SL teams who weren't performing adequately enough could be replaced by teams from below who'd had time to build towards getting facilities up to standard to make the jump up. In reality even though plenty of SL clubs could very easily have been relegated, no team from the Championship could really stake a claim for taking their place with any argument other than "we could do just as badly as they did."

This proposed system provides a good compromise between not rewarding mediocrity at the top by giving a more sensible PO system where finishing outside the eventual top 4 no longer means you still have a claim to be champions, whilst also giving most of the other teams something to play for throughout the whole season, and now giving teams from the 2nd tier the opportunity to prove (on the field at least) that they are worthy of competing in SL. There are definite issues with it, I don't like that the MW is still an extra fixture when it doesn't need to be, and there are big question marks over how funding will be allocated, salary cap, TV deals etc., but these can't really be commented on until the details become clear.

All in all, I think it's better than the system we've currently got, and is definitely better than one up one down. It may need a few tweaks here and there in the first season or two, but really if the RFL have decided this is the best way to go they need to stick with it, and clubs, fans, players, sponsors etc all need to get behind it. There's been far too much chopping and changing of the league structure since SL started.

Cas have yet to recover from losing their last ‘million pound game’. Whilst that game itself may have been well attended, surrounding that game both clubs had atrocious attendances, the game itself was an awful error ridden affair played out between two sets of aussie reserve graders. Wakefield fielded 15 out of 17 overseas players that game. Lets hope that having one every year isn’t as damaging.

Simple solution, ALL clubs use the Championship quota, problem solved

That wasnt hard, was it?

Yeah, that will work. All those contracted players can have their contracts cancelled, and they will happily just walk away. No chance of them challenging it or anything and we definitely wont see loads of players suddenly getting british passports like before.

You have obviously thought this through

You can’t legally stop someone with the legal right to work in this country from working in this country. We would see clubs jump through the same loopholes championship clubs already use, you know the rules that mean the championships have a quota of 1 but Sheffield have Yere, Tagaloa, Laulu-Togaga'e and Taulapapa, now I don’t know about you but im pretty sure those guys didn’t learn RL throwing a ball around the fields of Yorkshire.

Great problem solving

Problem: not enough british players coming through

solution: employ Kolpak nationals and overseas players who can get british or Kolpak passports, pretend its aiding international development and hope no-one sees through it.

throughout the league, your lets make them play by illegal rules that already arent followed solution isnt going to happen, so find another solution. Your, lets pretend it doesnt exist solution might though.

Please keep going though, i am enjoying your pretence that either ignoring a problem or just saying 'tough' is some cutting insight and plain-spoken truth quite funny.