Jamie Peacock

Quote: sergeant pepper "Your living in cloud cuckoo land if you think that expansion sides are the way forward. Why try to flog what is essentially a proven recipe for disaster and ridicule? Do people not realise that every expansion team apart from Catalan have failed? We've been to the rugby mad area of South Wales, we've been to two of Europe's grandest cities in London and Paris and seen nothing of worth. We've been to Cumbria and seen nothing but a few ok seasons for Barrow in the championship. Do i need to go on?

There's a viable future for RL and it's in the hearts and minds of the heartland clubs. It's in the heads of guys like Lenegan, Simon Moran, Eamonn Mcmanus, Adam Pearson, Dr Kukash etc that will drive the game forward. People with passion for the game that want to see it progress and give the fans that love the game what they want.

I think people are sick to death of the way RL is going down the pan. Fans who've followed the game for years are turning down season ticket renewals and instead cherry picking games. There's a gulf in performance and match quality from week to week and people are voting with their feet.

These 'fair weather fans' are the people that we need to get back into the game on a more consistent basis. It's not rocket science that people are more willing to part with hard earned cash if they enjoy what they see, get value for money and have a sniff at success. The quickest way to achieve this is by reducing the teams to 10 and concentrating what is an already diluted player base between a smaller number of sides. If you then up the salary cap we'd stand more of a chance of keeping players.

You talk about having less games in a season means less revenue for the club. I flat out disagree with that. If every game was going to be an epic and close affair which was played to a high standard then we'd see our attendances swell. Take our home game vs Wire for example that should be the norm and not the anomaly when it comes to game standard in this country. Your telling me that more people wouldn't tune in and turn up if every game was played like that. There's zero reason why it can't be - Why can't Hull FC, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford, Warrington, Salford, Saints, Catalan & Huddersfield all be power house clubs? All have the backing to be massive but all are held back by what is in reality Wakefield, Hull KR, Cas & London.'"

Your missing my overall point - There is a rule in business if your not expanding then your shrinking.

Reducing to 10 teams will not automatically spread the talent pool, given the choice players themselves will cherry pick the teams they want to play for and to think there will be a Sam Tomkins at every club is just crazy, there will be 5 or 6 Sam's at the top two clubs because these kind of players know which teams are more likely to challenge for honours and given their talents the clubs will pay for it (with the increased cap).

To say nothing has come from expansion sides is madness, there are more schools and amateur clubs in the south playing rugby league on a regular basis than there were 10 years ago, expansion is not an overnight thing it is built over many decades.

Why will every game be an epic affair, the talent pool isn't that big to have an epic game every week regardless of opposition, no sport has that kind of league and never will have. We will be left with the same type of games we have now, some intense and some walk overs we will just have less games to watch.

So your idea is to bury our head in the sand and reduce to a small minority of clubs playing professionally and hope that ping pong doesn't make a come back and take over our television slot with sky.