Agree,at the moment i would say 8th at best

The one thing Leigh and Bradford will probably have in their favour is the gate revenues. If Leigh can start a fresh this pre season, players will still look at them as one of the more attractable clubs to play for in the championship.

I could be speaking far too early but real good, seasoned championship teams such as Halifax, Featherstone and Sheffield may not get a look in at all. I'm glad its looking competitive next season because it will hopefully give our owners and those in power that push to generate a strong side. Our championship team this year will have to be stronger than the SL one just gone because that team was useless.

Mellor heading to Toronto on a 1 year deal.

Halifax have finished 4th the last two seasons you really think the likes of Bradford will take are spot

write us off all you like we get written off each year and made the top 4 three out four times

The best thing Elstone could do to get RL fans on side would be to ring sky, get the championship viewing rights and auction them off for the next couple of years. Premier sports picked these up and even if each club got a small piece of TV money - the exposure of that league could do really well.

Even better a streaming service set up, one or two games a week.

Looks a great league to keep an eye on

Right now, it's between Widnes & Toronto Barbarians.

What a CR@P argument, Melbourne Storm are an Australian Club with largely Australian players, Toronto are a Canadian Club with 1 Canadian who has as far as I recall never played !

Update, they did have a 19 year old Canadian but he has left and gone to Victoria, British Columbia to further his professional career.

No it is not. The promotion will come down to Toronto Wolfpack and Toulouse Olympique. Both of those teams deserve to be in Super League by 2022, to ensure an improved value contract with Sky.

No team deserves to be in SL , it will be earned on the field.

When a club finishes the regular season top of the league and 8 points ahead of 2nd place they deserve and have earned promotion IMO.

The system didn’t provide for that, they missed out because they didn’t win the most important game of the season.

That is because the system is deeply flawed.

I agree with this, so will most Leigh & Fev fans for example !

Thanks for the concession.

& why not ?
I am reasonably educated & intelligent, therefore I recognise when a system does not favour the best team who should rightly be promoted.
Fev were for a period the dominant team in Championship, followed later by Leigh & neither were promoted due to franchising.