So your solution to there not being enough quality players to go around is to reduce the amount of training facilities and outlets for the talent at the highest level?

Ridiculous.

14 clubs is enough for the current franchise system as it stands, I repeat other than ourselves (who have been in administration and had to field youngsters and journeymen all season) and Crusaders (New expansion team) who has really been whipping boys?

Yes the league may be divided by the top 6 who are clearly outstripping the lowlier clubs at the moment, but the youngsters coming through at these clubs that you would so casually dismiss, benefit enormously by playing against the top clubs and players. They then go on to be the England stars of the future. The licensing system should iron out quite a lot of these problems if we give it time to work properly.

All your doing by creating this 2 tier system is further damaging clubs that are trying to catch up with the top 6, and its totally counter productive for the sport.

Keep as a 14 tier league and shut the door on everybody else.

[listThe one big flaw in your argument is Hull, if you merge the teams you could possibly have an empty stadium.
The mistake that a lot of people make is to thing that the majority of supporters come to watch Rugby league, they dont they come to watch (insert your clubs name) take away that club & they wont always look for another club to go to, There is a small core of us who are Rugby league anoracks the who go to watch different teams or watch the NRL every week but most dont they are followers of a club not the game.
Loose clubs you will loose supporters as well as players & put the game back another 20 years.
My only change to the present system is to make it compulsary to spend the full cap or withdraw from Super league, If teams meet the criteria they should be promoted to the league but lodge at least two years running costs into the RFL to be monitored by them.

Absolutely terrible idea. It'd only be feasible for 5 or 6 teams to spend the salary cap. The other teams would spend the cap, try and make up for it through either a) cutting their academy/marketing etc... expenditure or b) just trying to make up through increasing revenue, but failing and end up in liquidation. Surely Crusaders/Wakefield have shown us th

we should have a 26 team comp. Play each team once. Think of all the English players we would have to choose from! Ok we might have to go back to being part time players but its a small price to pay!

Stupid idea, I despair sometimes.

You dont do much ' fishing ' do you ?

What the crusaders have taught us is that the RFL should have been a lot more open with fans by stating that they were brought in as an expansion side, & they should have made more effort to ensure that the finances were up & in place, not that the backers were prepared to put up the cash.(Hence the suggestion that the cash be deposited up front).
If there are only 4 or 5 sides that can spend up to the cap then the game is in deep poo anyway, then the only way is to reduce the cap or scrap it but then we are back to the same four clubs dominating the game (Oh! thats were we were twenty years ago).
My preference is for all the idiots to leave the game as it is & stop this idiotic drive to have mega sides in 30,000 all seater stadia. There is nothing wrong with Wakefield or Castlefords grounds they dont have problems getting a reasonable crowd in. Clubs like Featherstone, Batley & Whitehaven to name but three are being penalised for being small towns as long as they can fund a side then that is all that should matter. It is the game on the pitch that matters & developing more & more young kids to come into the game that is were the money should go.

I disagree. Most will agree that Cas is a hotbed of RL talent and has been for decades. If you believe that has nothing to do with Cas being a top flight club you are naive.
If there was no top flight club in Cas/Wakefield/Featherstone a lot of these kids' heroes would be Leeds Utd players & they'd choose soccer over RL.

If they introduced P&R i'd genuinely be up for a 10 team league, but with franchising no.

Watcing the goal posts shift just as Widnes get back in the top tier again and watching them cry YET AGAIN would be worth it on it's own though

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On a separate fantasy note

Home and Away and 9 games 'on tour'
1.Edinburgh(Murrayfield)
2.Cardiff(Millennium Stadium)
3.London(Twickenham)
4.Paris(Stade de France)
5.Barcelona(Olympic Stadium)
6.Dublin(Lansdowne Road)
7.Midlands(Ricoh Arena)
8.N.Ireland(Windsor Park)
9.Newcastle(St James Park)

All those games similar to Magic, 2 days all games, 3 one day 2 the next

Cloud cuckoo land but i'd love it if we were that popular we could implement that and make money out of it.

That goes above and way, way, way beyond cloud cuckoo land HY

Harlequins
London Skolars
Hemel Stags
West London Sharks
South London Storm
Greenwich Admirals
Hainault Bulldogs
Hammersmith
Elmbridge Eagles
Camden Cobras

More chance of Hull City signing Ronaldo.Neither set of fans would entertain the idea.