Yeah sorry bud my bad, I kind of assumed as one of the big cheeses he would have major influences, hadn't read the whole thread.

Mr Batley not happy either.

This constant faffing with the league structure does more harm than good and I can see further drop off attendances.

My full structure.

12 Team SL - play each other twice plus a live draw for Magic W/E.
Start the season with CC & final back to May. (Feb round of 32 & round of 16, March 1/4 Final, Apr 1/2 Final, May Final)

Play offs
Week 1 - ELIM1: 3 v 6; ELIM2: 4 v 5. Losers knocked out.
Week 2 - GFPO: 1 v 2 (winner to GF);
ELIM3: Winner of ELIM1 v Winner of ELIM2.
Week 3 - ELIM4: Loser of GFPO v ELIM3
GF - winner of GFPO v Winner of ELIM4

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12th place relegated. 1st place up.
MPG1: 11th SL v 2nd CH 2 legs. Winner over 2 legs promoted. Games on Week 2 & 3 of POs

reserve league adjacent to the SL league (same games at home & away)

A SL 1 SL 2 2x10 would simply be a rebranding of SL & Championship & throw out the 2 weakest Clubs in SL in my opinion.

To be truly both SL Leagues with value SL1 & 2 would play all teams in their respective League twice then split & the top 5 of each SL 1&2 play each other once.
Further to that you couldn't simply place the 10 strongest Clubs in SL 1 but split them up so that one group has a Toronto & either a Catalans/Toulouse/London or vice versa.

SL1 & SL2 should have equal funding.

I kinda like Wakey but .....
"Further drop off in attendances" than say an all Super League fixture like Wakey v Wigan at 4,681 a full 790 over Leigh v Fax or maybe Salfords sub 2k attendances & Giants & Widnes pitiful efforts ?

I will leave it up to the fellas that know alot more about the rules and regulations than I but to me this means that THIS is the year to try and get into Super League if you are a Championship side.

Make no doubt about it TWP and Argyle are about to open that wallet wide...for the top Championship teams this is it or it will go down as a missed opportunity...does the salary cap still apply if this announcement now changes everything, or is it now moot?

This is the time to take action....there will never be a better chance to make the SL jump. Time to spend fellas.

Guess the sites right for you tonight!

Its deja vu isn't it.. They are killing the game,thinking they are fixing it. But looks like the fixes are running out.

Wigan v Warrington was a game bolted on for 3 times this year.....they'll actually play a minimum of 5 times in 2018 now after the CC and the top 8's and there's every chance of a 6th meeting in the top 4.

Re-read that back and ask yourself how is that good for the game?

Money drives everything and the SL 11 believe that North America will deliver it. I personally think they are wrong, but it's better for them to at least try and fail rather than just keep on failing as we have been.......who knows, maybe ESPN will take our sport to a new audience and deliver the millions in revenue that Lenegan, Pearson et al believe it will.......but as other have said before, it took football 7 decades and soccer football only took off because of the Hispanic population getting behind USA 94....so unless there's mass migration from West Yorkshire to the states before 2025, I can see it ending in tears......and quite possibly some form of severe fiscal hardship.

Plus remember the money which has been thrown at soccer in the US. It has taken billions!

I do agree that the super 8s was not working. It isn't working and sticking with it isn't gonna change that

Got a bit bored & TBF this restructuring is a biggy !

It isn't working for SL,as the interest is contained in the middle 8's. The conception of the super 8's was heavily favoured to SL clubs, and only failed when Leigh got promoted against the biggest odds in RL ever seen.

KR get relegated,then promoted at a cost of Leigh. SL complain about dead rubber games yet Leeds fall into the middle 8's along with Wire. Then the RFL's baby Catalans.

If there is to be change,then swap them out now. Lets not beat about the bush,get shut of the SL clubs who have lived off Skys money and let them fend for themselves.