Have you got relatives who work for Ryanair or something, what about crowd numbers and away travel.
Maybe the french should be working ion their own structure to improve their own game ??

We need to stop throwing darts randomely and focus on greatest impact. S.France has the player pool, loves Rugby (mainly Union at present) and is an International playing nation that would benefit from 4 FT teams and the media exposure it would generate - this would only be possible when we hit 12/12 imo. I also believe this would generate a French TV deal of decent value to increase the share from Sky to the rest.

The Welsh dream mustn't die and I hope a Swansea/Cardiff comes along affiliated to the Soccer club.

Why are you using the plural?
It is only you banging on about this as far as I have seen so far.

Indeed - don't co-opt me into your army of revolutionaries; in the words of Duncan Bannatyne - "it's not for me, I'm out."

I'm just a simple guy, please explain your "random darts" comment
Concerning the French aspect, there is no doubt that after a slow start, Catalan have become a strong competitor in SL and, yes, there is some French TV money to be gleaned if RL in France becomes stronger.
However, it is the mechanism for reaching this point where I dont agree with you.
By adding French teams to the English competition, you will actually weaken the domestic game and not strengthen it. You will also reduce the number of English players by reducing/ removing teams from the second tier. So, take tour own blindfold off and aim your darts for the centre of the board and dont aim at the current participants of the game.

You can keep repeating this as often as you like, but the fact is that the SKY money belongs to the SL clubs operating as the [iprivate[/i company SLE Ltd. and is not available for distribution by the RFL to anyone other than the current members of SL.

You're also making a fairly fundamental error by assuming that 'distributed by' automatically confers some kind of ownership. It doesn't.

I can't see a lot wrong with this. We must have P & R between the two SL levels and into and out of the two SL levels. That gives the teams in level two the chance to improve their quality so that they can compete in level one - the same goes for the league below the SL, they should have access too. Plus it will bring back the spice of relegation battles and give teams at the bottom as well as the top something to play for all season, instead of going through the motions in some games but targeting others against local rivals. Plus hopefully we'd never repeat the travesty of a team going through a whole season with nothing to play for because they already knew they were promoted.

Rugby League´s fundamental problem in this country is the governing bodies fixation with the internatinal game, decisions are made with the sole intention of closing the gap with Australia, just run the game for the benefit of the domestic competition, if that means lower caps and a restructuring so be it.

But it´s time to start making decisions for the good of the domestic game and not with a view to closing the gap with Australia.

Do some of you realise what it is like with only 10 teams and having just 9 meaningful home fixtures per season? Ask the fans of Championship 1 what they think of 10 team leagues or better still ask the fans who have stopped going to watch because of the big gaps between home games?

Challenge Cup matches would have been used to fill the gaps for SL clubs but as we have seen lately they don't particularly attract many fans?

Huddersfield Giants
Wigan Warriors
Warrington Wolves
Catalan Dragons
Hull FC
Leeds Rhinos
St. Helens
Bradford Bulls
Hull Kingston Rovers
Salford City Reds
Wakefield Wildcats
Castleford Tigers
London Broncos
Widnes Vikings
Halifax
Leigh
Barrow Raiders
Gateshead Thunder
Whitehaven
Northampton
North Wales Crusaders
South Wales Scorpions
London Skolars


Why not have this league and play everyone once and stop English players being counted on salary cap

...because you'd have mass bankruptcies and regular cricket scores? Just a thought.

Someone else who gets it.
A 10 team top flight may just increase the intensity of some of the weekly games but what does it do to the rest of the league(s).
4 teams drop out of SL and another raft of support will drift from the game at each of those 4 clubs.
Pressumably, 4 teams would also be "demoted" from the championship and yet more fans will be hacked off
and then in a few years time, once a new pecking order has been eastablished in the new Super Super League,
we can jettison the two bottom clubs for not being competetive.
Great plan, just what the fans really want.

You would have more than 9 home fixtures, thats just current RFL strategy to kill off lower leagues.

26 games (13 Home) plus Magic and then play offs.

so how are you expecting we have 26 games plus MM with 10 teams in a fair way?