Think I heard a while ago that pretty much all the Championship clubs wanted it to be the top two in the league that got the money, which would be the fairest.

I do think this structure was the best option, (would have prefect two full time 10s then a separate competition with all 20 teams in for extra games but that wasn't on offer). Straight P&R didn't work before, it got clubs into too much difficulty frantically trying to get promotion which was too difficult then struggling to stay up and being left in trouble when related again. This new structure allows teams to be promoted but they have to show they're better than the teams they'll be replacing, seems fair enough so long as everyone is full time. It'll allow clubs to grow at a natural pace and get a good guide of what level they're at and what they need to work on to improve instead of going all out and becoming unstable the moment it looks like a weaker team is relegated for their one and only chance at promotion.

I hope there's a decent prize money for the Championship shield though, otherwise it's a bit of a "Well you tried, here's some more games to kill the time" type competition. Would be good if you got the same amount for winning it as finishing somewhere in the bottom 4 of the SL qualifier group, makes the next season more interesting, you'd have 5 teams on equal financial footing competing for 4 places, which makes the Championship a competition worth winning.

We seem to have a lot of 'I heard' posts, would any of them like to say who told them or where they heard it?

As far as I can see Alan there is no grand final, Im sure Derek Beaumont and Steve Openshaw said that it was supposed to be on league rankings.

They did.

But that would mean no games for 5 months and I'd like to see our lads win a playoff game.