Agreed. If we want to improve we have to take hard decisions and it the number of clubs in the top flight. Less volume, more quality. Less easy games, better depth of squads.

That's the way to improve standards and increase competition, not a low salary cap across too many teams.

I'm not sure how reducing the number of teams makes the game better, maybe we just drop it down to two teams as they will be the best teams ever.

The bigger the gene pool the better the chance of finding superstars. The more teams trying different methods the more chance of a better system emerging.

As for all this "we were found out", the Aussie centres are as big as our props. Their execution is better all around. It's not a case of being found out and so on, it's simply a case the the Australian teams are better, drop Wigan back into SL with the team the started and wins happen.

Maybe the ideal would be a year long 3 leagues of 8, play each other home and away twice (28 games) then the top four play off and the bottom of the top leagued plays the top of the middle league, winner in the top league next year
It would mean higher intensity games week in week out, the big difference between SL and Nrl teams is they they are used to being in a grind and are able to absorb huge amounts of pressure and then switch straight to attack once they have an opportunity