Would Sky pay for, would there be an appetite for, an RL version of the Champions League? Top four from ours and the Aussie League, played alernative year's about northern and southern hemisphere?

If there was enough money/prestiege our antipodean friends would be tempted wouldn't they? Mind you, we can't agree a format for our own play off's so perhaps not a great idea.

A knockout cup played with the NRL and spread over a single 4 week period ?

Reduce to 10 teams, play each other home and away plus a third fixture at 9 'on the road' grounds chosen strategically where potential new clubs may be developed, to give a total of 27 games with plenty of exposure across non league areas.

Rock n roll

rlshould we adopt the system our less interesting, less of a gene pool cousins play?rl

Whilst I am very happy with our position at this point of the season, I am far from happy with the season as a whole. I appreciate that it's a means to an end and I won't be complaining if Mozz/Briers is leading the guys at at Old Trafford, but after last years performances this year doesn't feel the same.

As for changing/improving the structure of the league how about a 12 team league playing eachother home and away (22 games) then split the league into a top six and bottom six. The six teams in each half of the table keep their points and are guarenteed to finish no lower than 6th/higher then 7th (depending which half of the league they're in) and then play the other 5 teams in their half home and away (10 more games). Do away with the stupid extra fixture and almost as stupid knockout end to the season and crown the league leaders after 32 games as champions.

Sky get their big ending to the season as for the last ten weeks of the season the top six play eachother every week. The international game may benefit as for ten weeks at the end of the season almost every game involving top teams (so probably most of the top players) is of a very high intensity (which is what we need isn't it). I appreciate that the bottom six clubs are left with nothing to play for other than avoiding the 'spoon', but there are already one or two fixtures like that every weekend anyway.

Simple thing to change - go with 12 team playing each other twice. 22 games

5 Teams in the play off's - like the old system

England v Exiles - three game series on stand alone weekends - or a couple of mid season tests against Aus/NZ - in Aus.

You'd with any luck get the intensity back and make a bit of space for the international game.

That's what i'd go with.

I'd do the same but I'd only play 1 Exiles game until it's a bit more established. If they do want more than 1, then it has to be 3 and it has to be on standalone weekends. The last one was a farce, Matty Smith being allowed to take part was the final straw for me.

For the last three years we've been watching the best Warrington team in my lifetime with potential for this current era to develop into the most successful in our club's entire history.

I'm happy.

Yeah, this sums it up for me. Apart from a background paranoia that I'm somehow dreaming or making it all up, I'm pretty happy with the way things are going, and even if we think we could be playing better (like last season) we're still right up there competing for every trophy.

Where did all this talk of how the competition isn't good enough come from? I'm sure it wasn't long ago we were talking about how great it was that you couldn't be sure about winning any game, and that still seems to be the case this season - have the tables turned now that we are at the top and expected to win every time?

This.

Some of the moaning in this thread appears to be disgruntlement that other teams are worse than us. Well, when other teams were much better than us, I'm sure they treated us with a fair amount of disdain too. It doesn't mean the league is worse than it was before.

You are correct.

they tried that in 1997 - it cost me a fortune and wasn't very successfull

the only comp that should be revitalised should be the charity shield, CC winners v Superleague winners (supreme champions!), pre season. oh and the regal trophy and if the clubs think its too much for the players put your u20's out, however make a massive prize (money wise) and i'm sure they'd put the best team out!
gives teams more to play for

Agree with this 100%. We've managed to get our house in order with a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Before fans from other clubs start shouting about the Moran money, we already had things well on the way financially before Simon became involved. Fans of Saints and the Bulls need to realise that not everyone can always stay at the top.