Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Restructure, currently top three leagues have a combined number of 35 team
SL- 10 teams
Off this years standings
1.Wire
2.Wigan
3.Saints
4.Hudds
5.Leeds
6.Catalans
7.Hull FC
8.Hull KR
9.Castleford
10.Bradford
Next we have championship 12 sides
1.Salford
2.Quins
3.Wakefield
4.Crusaders(for this discussion forgetting their situation)
6. Featherstone
7. Leigh
8. Batley
9. Sheffield
10. Widnes
11. Halifax
12. Hunslet
But we have a kind of P&R
Next division down has 14 teams.
SL has a top 5 playoff for the GF
6th place stays in the league
7th, 8th, 9th and 10th go in to a relegation playoff 7v10 8v9 winners stay up both losers go in to a game loser goes in to a P&R one off game
Championship have a top 6 playoff winner of that system go in to a P&R game.
If the team isn't good enough to beat the loser of SL then they are not ready but at least they have a chance of going up.
10 team SL means the talent is condensed hopefully creating a better game and creating more interest, then bring in a system in which you have a salary cap as such but it's based on what you earn, so Wigan having the most fans would be able to spend X amount of pounds but are capped on % on income, so if you want to spend more you have to come up with ways of earning more ie marketing, improving facilities, hiring stadium out etc.
You are still capped to some extent but teams like Wigan and Leeds would be able to spend more than Hudds and if Hudds want to spend more then try to make more.'"
That would improve the domestic product imo. The playoff systems you mentioned would need a little working out but im sure it can be done. P&L needs to return in some form for me, the teams at the bottom are just hanging around doing jack so other teams should be allowed to have a crack.
