Most of the mergers mentioned there don't make sense though. With the exception of Bradford those teams are all profitable or at least safe money wise.

Plus they're mostly at opposite ends. Except Wigan and Saints and the Hulls. For example warrington and Widnes one is a top side the other isn't what would be in it for warringon? Same with Leeds and Bradford.

Wakey, Cas and Fev are all lower struggling sides who will struggle to carry on if they're stretching the money over 24 teams.

You dont really know much do you. Really shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about. A merger would set us back

Fev are not struggling at all. Was at the fev forum last night and everything is rosey. We have cash to spend but due to the low salary cap of our league we cant spend it.

We own our own ground which is currently being redeveloped. We may not draw in crowds of 8k every week but we dont need to. Everything we sell in our OWN ground goes into our bank. No rent to pay.

Featherstone are all for these proposals and will go full time if or when this happens and fev become a SL 2 team.

The youth set up at Featherstone is very good and they are on with plans to improve with a full time academy.

Featherstone are also one of only 4 teams in rugby league who have increased their crowds. an increase from average of 1666 to 2600 in less than 3 years and an highest gate this season of 3700 is fantastic for a team outside of superleage where its not unusal for away teams to bring about 20 fans. Obviously with entry to sl2 and more competative games there still huge scope for improvement.

Maybe if Superleague clubs spent more time developing young players and increasing their attendances there wouldn't be such a huge reliance on SL handouts. Fev dont see the difference in SL money with this system as a problem as long as there is an increase in salary cap for them

Personally i like to see RFL looking to change the system as currently it doesnt work. The issue for me though is them 1st 11 games and how they are decided. Can you imagine for instance if Salford finished 8th and Hull KR finished 9th and there was only a point between them, but the match between the 2 teams was played at Salford which Salford won, surely that is an unfair advantage for Salford which over a normal season wouldnt happen. Hull KR are disadvantaged and for 2/3 of a year are playing just to be in the top league, when in theory they could be challenging for a top 6 spot. Throw into that equation the possibility of teams getting players injured through no fault of their own, matches postponed due to snow and having to be played midweek to catch up and the teams playing in the WCC, its hard to see how it would be fair.

I just want to see a top division where it is really competitive from top to bottom. Im not fussed about promotion/relegation. Guess theres no easy answer really but the competition has to be fair on all teams.

No division is going to be competitive from top to bottom without relegation.

worst thing Sl ever did was remove releagtion. look at the championship in football this year and exiting the relegation battle has been. resulting in a fantastic day at Hudders ground last saturday.

I like the new system. The fixtures would be drawn at start of season and all teams would know where they stand.

Why would that make a [idivision [/icompetitive?

You won`t for sure get a good side merging 2 clubs, it is only a ploy to get shut of a club.
And you would not be advocating it if Wigan and Saints were suggested as a merge.
This would not crop up if both Wakey and Cas were in the top end of the league, which could happen next season. You never know what could crop up, as who would have expected Saints to be struggling to hang on to 8th position this season with a new supercoach in residence.

OOH, not bitter then... lol

Super League and Championship clubs will vote on the following three options:

Option 1 - Super League reverts to a 12-team competition (from 14) and a 10 or 12-team Championship, with one club promoted and relegated each year.

Option 2 - A two-division Super League with each division comprising 10 teams.

Option 3 - Two divisions of 12 in Super League, with teams playing each other once to provide 11 fixtures before splitting into three groups of eight in mid-season and then playing each other home and away to provide 14 more matches.

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So all the furor around this "crazy" new league structure, and it's actually just something that's been put in as a 3rd, wildcard option alongside 2 other completely reasonable suggestions?

Options 1 and 2 and pretty much what the fans have been suggesting for years, there's no mention that option 2 will involve promotion and relegation.

Good point. I'm for some kind of promotion and relegation, but I think potentially going semi-proffesional to proffesional and vice versa could prove a problem. If we could somehow get 2 leagues of 10 on similar salary caps and funding from the RFL it could work quite well... getting that however, well!