By reducing the teams then we spread the Sky money out more which would be a temporary fix to the quality of SL by paying players more and only having SL standard players, for instance look at the Widnes team, this shows there aren't enough quality players in the UK to have 14 teams as now with the strength of the Aus Dollar plus the Aus salary cap being raised we really are getting Reserve grade rejects, there is absolutly no quality players coming over from Aus in fact all our best players are going to the NRL.

We can't bury our heads in the sand saying 'our clubs are being run well, we have more British players playing in SL, TV figures are up' that's all well and good but at the end of the day we use the NRL at the benchmark and judging by that we really need to shake things up or we will be a feeder league/sport.

One of the things I'd do is bin off London, if Richard Branson can't make it work what chance have the RFL?

It's so obvious that this is true.

This is something we should really try to throw our weight behind. It's one of the few flagship events RL has, and one that Union would really struggle to match, especially if we expanded it the way you suggest.

But you're right about the Aussies. As long as they continue to pay nothing more than lip-service to the game's international dimension, we'll never get this thing moving.

The game is dying, the way things are going we are going to move back to being a semi professional sport with only maybe one or two clubs being able to be full time professional like in the late 80s and early 90s and I am sure none of us want to go back and repeat that dismal era for the sport.

That has the added benefit of making decent players in SL actually consider Catalans as a serious option, i couldn't believe Pryce was the first to go over and it took as long as it did.

What does surprise me considering Australia's appetite for rugby is that they don't actually outbid Sky and buy the rights to SL.

The Qantas Superleague or such like, possibly attach themselves to a club similar to all the SL clubs linking up with Championship clubs.

If Sky wanted to they could double or treble what they pay for SL without even noticing. It's peanuts compared to what they spend on football and RL is their 2nd most watched sport isn't it? If they want to keep that audience paying their overpriced sports subscriptions to subsidise the cost of screening football then they need to support the sport better. It's clearly not in their interests to let SL go right downhill, I just hope they wake up to that soon.