So nothing has changed then.

Desire to be better!! and if they don't they don't deserve hand outs.

That's what licensing was supposed to prevent and it has - bad management (Wakey) & silly decisions (London/Wales) aside we've got a stronger set of clubs now than pre 2006 - Catalans would never be in the position to compete if P&R had been in place for eg. The likes of Andrew Johns [iwill [/ibe parachuted in to try to prevent relegation & panic buying (Fielden) will start all over again.
Unless, of course, there's a block on buying players after the split to the 3 groups

<EDIT> - interesting line on the SportingLife site: .
"[iHow[/i" they'll get rid of 2 teams ??!

There already is

different structure different salary cap surely. In the RFL manifest it briefly touched on changes to Salary cap but never stated anything concrete.

In the detail of the system it says SC will remain at just over £1.8 million, with home grown stars limited to a value of 100k on the cap, so for us Roby could be on £300k but only counts as £100k.
Using that system, Wigan saints and Leeds could spend very close to 2 million with our squads

That system mean the top 4 and Catalans will be untouchable for years to come. We have a lack of parity is salary cap controlled conditions so this can only make the one side games occur more often. Not good for the game.

Apparently the Magic Weekend will stay but when and how. If each team plays twice plus a magic fixture that is 23 games then seven more games then play offs. Is the season going to be starting January to fit it all in?

Which none can afford!!!

Itr is worse that that isn't it? The regular season will be 30 games.

It's a really stupid idea.

It results in 30 games (inc magic) before the play offs or CC are taken into account.

The 12 team leagues play each other twice. 22 games. Then when it splits to the 8 they play each other once. Seven more games and then the magic weekend. 30 games.

The playing each other once when it goes to an 8 is going to mean the clubs play teams who end up in the same 8 as them 3 times in the league format, they will potentially play one club 4 times if they are drawn against them at the Magic Weekend and possibly again in the playoffs.

Add in the CC we could end up playing, say Saints, 6 times in one season under this format. How stupid is that?

There are also players livelihoods at stake here as there always is when you have relegation from a pro league to a semi-pro one.

It's bonkers IMO.

Don't tell that to the anti SC peoples!

Another effrct of this is clubs won't know if they have three or four homes games after the split to the 8.

So if season tickets cover the 7 games after the split you won't know what you are buying up front and if they don't you can kiss goodbye to any decent crowds as people save their cash in case their team gets into the play offs.