If you have a bye, you get 2 weeks off not 1 like you previously said.

If you play a team on the 1st of August, then have bye on the 7th, your next game is on the 14th, which is 14 days off, which is 2 weeks.

Give your head a shake.

Who are what is going to cover another two SL teams funding wise? Disbanding L1 will gain a £1m but that still leaves £2.5m short. Where's that coming from, Championship?

I will try and simplify it for you:

Round 1 - team A gets a week off
Round 2 - team B gets a week off

And so on

Round 14 - team N gets a week off

Round 15 - team O gets a week off

Round 1 to 15 all teams (A to O) have had 1 week off

(I am using the alphabet for the teams)

Right now onto

Round 16 - go back to the start - team A gets a week off

Round 17 - team B gets a week off

18 - C
19 - D
20 - E
21 - F
22 - G
23 - H
24 - I
25 - J
26 - K
27 - l
28 last round - team M gets a week off. That's it end of comp with 15 teams.

But wait teams N and O have only had 1 rest week (rounds 14 & 15)

Everyone else has had 2 rest weeks

Teams A to M have 2 rest weeks

Teams N & O have only had 1

Now do you get it?

(This was a pain typing on my I phone)

If you are the team without a fixture in the first week, you don't get any recuperation, you just start a week later than everyone else.

You maths is faulty anyway, if you play on the 1st and miss a week, your next game is on the 15th.

There won't be 14 teams in SL , unless they disband CH also . The next structure has to see SL1 and SL2 all running fulltime with 10 in each. That's the way forward.

Create whatever you want on that structure,because that's were it will end up. Hopefully sooner than later as 14 in SL will see more than just L1 being disbanded.

What ever system they introduce then so be it, we have to adapt, I don't think for 1 minute that there will be a 15 team S.L.

I was merely explaining to mooka that it would be impossible to give every team (2) weeks rest in a season with 28 games.

The powers that be will do what they do and we as fans will adapt.

Yorkshire cup / Lancashire cup, BBC floodlit trophy, Regal / JPS trophy, Lancashire v Yorkshire all gone.

Countless rule changes, licensing/ franchises, French clubs and now a North American club.

But yet we are still here week in week out.

Probably missed something

You missed nothing, its just some think these ventures of SL with 14 in it will run on Scotch mist. CH along with L1 have 3 years to either go with whats being offered or go alone. Their choice. I don't take into account someones thoughts written in the RL weekly rag as gospel.

Others should do the same, the debate should be about 14 in SL, yet the debate turns into what format should be run in SL using 14 teams which the sport can't cater for without funding from the lower tiers being taken back.

Thats the point, not whether we should have a bye. No club will survive without funding, but if your happy to go with 14 in SL for 3 years, there won't be many clubs or fans adapting to that scenario below SL.

That is wrong, the season would not end on Week 28, it would finish in Week 30!!!!!!!

When you need a set of fixtures for 15 teams, you work them out for 16. Team 16 is the bye!!!!! A season is 30 weeks giving 28 games and 2 byes for each team

Wow don't believe this!

In our league there are 12 so minus summer bash and super 8's, we play 22 matches.

You don't play yourself

15 teams, they will play 14 at home and 14 away - 28 games

Not 30

(See my working out) if you can show I am wrong, I will willingly bow down to your knowledge.

Anyway it ain't going to happen so it's not worth the hassle

Yes everyone plays 28 games but the season is 30 weeks.

Correct..