Oh dear.

I do think there will be something very unpleasant in all this.
There has been so much talk about Wakey and Cas and their troubles, mainly financial that I do think they will be given an ultimatum, either merge as we are only having one club from the Wakefield MBC in Super League.
It may then be left to them both, or all three clubs in the area to sort it out.
We have two very uncompetitive clubs now in Wakey and Cas and maybe SL see it as one club from a population of approx 375k in a rugby league mad area could be a top four club and challenging for honours every year.
With some of the players in SL but not at those clubs it would seem a distinct possibility.
Whether they will overcome their own allegiencies and create a British StGeorge/Illawara I don't know but I simply can't see SL continuing with Rugby League in its currrent state in the area.
Hey Love, where did you put that tin hat??????????

This seems a fanatstic idea! The Legaue needs shaking up, this system will:

- More competative matches
- More chances of trophies
- Increased crowds
- More players playing professional which will increase the pool of players for the National squad

On current standings the league would be:

SL1

1. Wigan
2. Huddersfield
3. Wire
4. Leeds
5. Catalan
6. Bradford
7. Saints
8. FC

SL2

1. KR
2. Wakefield
3. Widnes
4. London
5. Salford
6. Castleford
7. Halifax
8. Featherstone

SL3

1. Sheffeild
2. Batley
3. Leigh
4. Whiteheaven
5. Hunslet
6. York
7. Dewsbury
8. Workington

The new leagues seem more competative, I would definatly watch these rather than the current Super League system

We would have to make the full 24 teams full time, at least 20 teams to make it competative............ I could see this taking 5 years to mature, however being a fantastic concept in the future

On paper it looks a feasible plan, but as others have alluded to, a lot more money will have to be brought in to the game to sustain this new format. No way at this stage are we ready to make 10 more teams full-time professional.

Negotiating the right title sponsors and TV deals is going to be crucial for this to ever take off. If Premier Sports aired a 2nd lower tier game, say Saturday afternoon, on top of the current Thursday night one, that could be a start. I'd love one of the FTA channels to start show a Sunday afternoon/evening kick off also.

Could be a big headache for the fixture planners having a few days (?) after Round 11 to organise 3 leagues worth of fixtures for the remainder of the season.

It really should be two leagues of 10.

10 professional teams, 10 feeder teams.

There just isn't enough talent/support to have a 14 team SL, nevermind a 24 team behemoth.

Wakefield aren't competitive??

They lost by how many at yours? With 12 men?

Competitive doesn't mean winning things...we leave that to Leeds and Warrington.

You are right that Cas are though...

And the best way to prove how competitive you are is to focus on 60 minutes of one game that was lost - genius.

More money comes in to the game, maybe the RFL get a league sponsor and i'd go with it.
Otherwise it's just another silly pipedream.

How about 6 leagues of 4, that way the top flight must be competitive!

Seriously though, 8 teams in the league is just a minor reduction in games per season which will surely reduce the season ticket prices by almost half. I only need to drag myself to 7 games at home, that's about £100 that I won't be spending on rugby that I can spend elsewhere.

I guess that the club is more than happy to miss the £1m that the other ~10,000 fans per game would generate as we will all be happy to pay more due to the better quality by playing less?

I take it you're not convinced then?

True. Unless there is more money it is just rearranging the deckchairs.