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Courier Sport understands the Rugby Football League has tabled plans that - if they are given the green light by the clubs - would initially herald two top divisions of 12 teams.

See today’s Courier Sport for the full story'"

Excuse me for digressing but this, right here, is why local media is dying....

From a prominent RL journalist on another forum......

The idea is that the two bottom teams will be relegated from Super League at the end of 2014, regardless of which teams they will be.

There will then be two divisions of 12 each, which will play each other once (eleven games) in the first half of the season.

In the second half of the season, those clubs will split into three divisions of eight teams, depending on finishing places in the first half of the season. The bottom four Super League clubs will be in with the top four Championship clubs (which may include the two SL clubs relegated the previous season). Those teams will play each other at home and away (14 games) in the second half of the season.

The top four clubs in the second tier, at the end of that season, will then return to Super League for 2016.

That's going to be interesting.

My head hurts! Don't think I quite follow the last bit.

This will make most games matter. I'm presuming there would be play offs and grand finals in the two lower tiers?

Seems quite over-complicated to me.

So because of a minority of lower league clubs moaning very loudly, we now have a proposal which will alter the entire structure of the pro game so that if these smaller clubs are lucky, with a fair wind, they could, possibly, hopefully, get a whole 5 home games against the big sides.

And because of complaints that the top 8 is too easy to qualify for and not competitive enough to stretch the big clubs, that because it so easy for them to qualify it becomes a procession, we are going to split the league using the er………….Top 8.

And because of complaints that teams at the bottom of SL aren’t good enough, we are going to take the 4 worst, put them with 4 sides from a lower league and try and sell an entire league of those games.

This proposal doesn’t even address the problems people are pretending are our issues. Its not even in the same universe as addressing the actual problems of the game.

It is a truly awful idea. Our game should be embarrassed it was even suggested.

Imagine trying to explain this to potential new fans!

So they saw the Scottish proposals and they're floating it now? Just like the old Swiss/Austrian football systems. I'm intrigued by it personally.

Nightmare.

They are likely to have this for a season and revert back to a 12 team closed shop.

And how would the Sky money be split under this complicated system.

so after 11 games we have a top league of 8 teams.........any mention of how many teams qualify for the Play offs for the grand final...leave it at 8 and no match whatsoever would mean anything as they are all qualified........what genius thought this idea up............

Surely the bottom 4 would have a higher salary cap than the division below??

Did a work experience kid come up with the idea?