interesting question....it surely has to come down to 'relegation' and how that is defined. We have yet to be relegated...so we still retain our top flight status....just as the Championship teams have not been promoted into Super League...we have not been relegated from it. A sort of limbo as someone else has already said.

More Purgatory or Perdition than Limbo

It is actually being referred to as Super League Qualifiers

Does it really matter what names they give these two 8's ? If the RFL had split us up into top and bottom 6 teams at this stage, would anybody on here be bothered ? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then its a duck. If a Championship side this year enters SL next year, they have been promoted. If we were to play in the Championship next year we would have been relegated.

How on earth can we find this such a fascinating topic. Anybody want to see my list of car number plates that I spotted this morning ?

Yes please, never see any ED anymore except the mayors car.

Slight thread drift, but, deserving, I remember someone writing 'Now the Wire' on my dads Vauxhall Viva AED....in the sand that had accumulated on the bodywork whilst stuck on a beach car park in Cornwall 1972.

Sad, but, kind of gave us both a warm glow......350 miles from home, but, not 'alone'.

It's not as simple as you have reduced it because there are 3 leagues now created from an original 2.

Anyhow did you not know the nature of the thread by the title? If it's not for you could you not just skip over it?

We're not in it. Simple. Sack Agar and Smith.

Ah, the old ED reg, I can see you must have been a keen number plate spotter in your youth. Dad had two Morris Minor 1000's when we lived in an eastern suburb of Warry many moons ago. I am sure the first was DED and when he sold it the guy who bought it tipped a large bag of notes onto the dining room table. They were all brown 10 shilling notes and I had never seen so much money in my life. I think I must have been about 10 years old. In retrospect he was probably the equivalent of the Bulgarian mafia and moved out to Stockton Heath a few years later.

Still one or two old council special buses with ED. Well there was til fairly recent if they haven't now.

I've always thought this is a bit weird. We're playing in the same competition now, but everyone will always say that the SL team (Wire) beat the Championship team (Fax).

This isn't a whinge, but I guess the differentiation is that Wire et al are still receiving SL level funding?

Wouldn't even say it was a case of automatic relegation/promotion these days, more a case of invitation, as you could win the MPG, but if all the other boxes aren't ticked like ground, finances etc, you won't get the invite.