Quote: Jaywire "I imagine Sally was being sarcastic, but this is exactly what will happen - no bold talk of a 2-tier SL will change the fact that it will be the top league of 10 being SL and the next 10 will simply be the new Championship that Sky will not care about in the slightest. It's completely pointless. Reduce SL to 10 teams and we will only get the money for 10 teams, it's as simply as that.'"
Clearly the RFL clubs would need to sound out Sky about their thoughts on a 10 team SL. Would they reject it out of hand though ? If you had all teams playing each other 3 times, Sky would get the required number of matches and games such as Wire vs London or Cas would be replaced with rather more attractive games against Saints and Wigan.
If I was working for Sky, that would at the very least merit careful consideration.
As far as the second division are concerned, yes you could call it the Championship, but the important factor is that they would receive more money. That would make these clubs more viable and give them a better chance of building their club into a more robust, self sustaining business. At the moment I would suggest that the gap between SL and Championship is just too large to bridge, even with the licence period that they are granted.