Shame about the toilets and access to the ground, not used these toilets before the ones in the family stand where I always sit are fantastic. The lights were flickering and I am not sure why, typical it happened with superleague fans coming over.

Where does the additional £10 million per year come from to fund such a structure?

The logical split would be keep SL money as is, the bigger gates will help and allow a £2m cap. Divide the 4 current SL clubs money that drop together with the £90k from the promoted Championship clubs and you have £500k, that should allow for £1m cap

Before the franchise system we had already got to the stage where automatic promotion and relegation had gone. Wakefield survived at least once because the NL1 champs either didn't want promotion or didn't meet ground criteria. What franchising does is make SL not a closed shop but does impose minimum standards on clubs. It's not perfect but its better than the alternative of P&R which just won't work any more.

As to who it has benefited well Widnes for a start. We also have clubs in new grounds such as Wire, Salford and Saints who went about getting these sorted because they had to in order to keep their places or at least not be in the at risk category.

Also if there are crap teams in SL then the ones outside of it can't be any better otherwise they would have taken the franchise off the likes of Wakefield.

I would have no issue with promotion based on minimum standards as in Football and RU. Hunslet and Dewsbury were denied promotion on minimum standards, both times saving Huddersfield.