How will reducing the amount of clubs increase the player pool when they'd be less opportunities for English players in a 10 team league? Restructuring the league won't improve clubs infastructure, it won't improve marketing, youth development or improve relations within the community. Restructuring the league and bringing back P & R just seems like a short sighted knee jerk reaction that hasn't been thought through properly.

Super League One and Super League Two is a scenario thought up to bring back promotion and relegation for the sake of it. If anything, it will devalue the sport in this country further than it already is. It will also create what we have in the Championship now, with half the Super League clubs in that proposed second tier.

Are Sky going to broadcast as many SL2 matches? No. Will the clubs in SL1 complain half the television money is going to a second tier competition, when they are accommodating Sky most of the time? Yes. Therefore SL2 clubs will be left poorer. Wasn't there a post earlier stating SL1 and SL2 would prevent the rich getting richer, etc? Bull!

P&R between Super League and the Championships needs to return, but I don't have the answers as to prevent the reasons it was exiled to begin with - clubs bankrupting themselves in a single season trying to get into SL. The idea getting rid of P&R was with good intentions, but if anyone who listed to Radio Leeds on the way home on Sunday would have heard a guest say, P&R is engraved in the British sporting culture. Rugby League in the top flight currently goes against that, hence a drop in attendances. Widely publicised mismanagement at club level also doesn't help, and the fact the timing of the removal of P&R coincided with the worst worldwide financial disaster in the post-war era.

Whatever the way forward, I don't believe Super League One and Super League Two is the answer. It will just create another gulf between clubs.

But up until this season attendances had increased wince the removal of P & R.

Firstly, if a reduction to 10 teams (or 12) did occur, surely there wouldn't also be a reduction in fixtures - that would be just daft. So we'd get something like playing teams 3 times to provide a similar number to now - hence no loss of income through less fixtures.

Secondly, however, I agree with the posters above that this is a barmy idea. I hate seeing "solutions" put forward that actually solve a different problem to the one at hand. For RL in the UK our main problems currently are: 1) insufficient player pool leading to inability to increase competition consistently through the 14 SL clubs plus also leading to lack of quality / quantity at international level for the home nations and at elite level; 2) lack of media profile reducing commercial income / attendances.

For me, cutting the number of clubs in the top flight addresses neither of these key problems. In fact it will most likely just add to them.

re: not enough games and not enough interest in "SL2"

how about:

play each team in your own division home and away and then each SL1 team plays each SL2 team once, at the ground of the SL1 team with half of the gate receipts for that game going to the SL2 team

leads to a 28 game season

10 paydays for SL2 teams each season although they might get drubbed

keeps interest in SL2 alive for fans of SL1 teams

semi-pro expansion comp below SL2 with no promo and relegation but periodic applications to league

Im more interested in when are we going to hear from Mr Barwick and his book of contacts that will bring money or interest into the game.