He said virtually, not all.

Don't let that stop you pontificating as per though.

Just one small point about your comment.

The major difference is you are comparing promotion and relegation from one competition to another, not from second tier to the top flight. Also comparing a sport that with the exception of the two division restructure and the inclusion of Durham in 1992 (increasing the competition to 18 teams) prior to that it was Glamorgan in 1921, it has been run under the same rules for decades.

So hardly the ideal comparison is it?????

One last point the EWCB (formerly ECB) have never operated a promotion and relegation system to and from the County Championship.

Oh goody, a quiz.

Ohy sorry its not,you just didnt read the post properly.

So exactly like Super League and the two-division of the Co-op Championship then, or indeed, like the two-division Co-op Championship and the Rugby League Conference.

one professional competition

one semi pro competition

one amateur competition

No automatic p and r between the different comps, but clubs from the RLC can apply to join the championship (and once they're in, they're in for good) and teams from the semi-pro Conference can apply, alongside existing professional clubs, for a three-year stay in the professional competition, subject to meeting on (and off) field qualifying criteria.

That really is a case of them and us tb. The difference is there used to be P&R between the divisions containing all the member clubs, that never existed in the cricket case you have mentioned. The dilution of our once great game started when the greedy top clubs decided to keep all the money for themselves and not divvy it up on a sliding scale from top to bottom of the RFL member clubs based on finishing position....ie the start of the widening of the gap between the haves and stolen froms.

The gap has widened not because of mismanagement TWO THIRDS of the RFL members, but the removal of funding from those members. How many of the member clubs outside SL actually managed to qualify for the supposed £100k funding which the RFL proudly shouted from the rooftops, leading everyone to believe that every club outside SL actually got that amount. They lied if thats the impression they were trying to give.

You can't change the basis of your argument once it is flawed as you have done. You tried to compare a sport that in it's entire history has never had promotion from the (lesser) Minor Counties league to the County Championship and then compare it to Super League, Co-op Championship and Conference.

That's like the equivalent of Cas Panthers joining CH1 - it doesn't happen.

But there IS promotion and relegation between the 2 divisions of pro-cricket.

Very bad example. 0/10 must do better!

Durham.

Not bad on sport,pop music and geography generally, but my specialist subject is Chinese Takeaways

I disagree. The equivalent of Castleford Panthers joining championship 1 would be a team from the Yorkshire or Lancashire leagues joining the minor counties championship




Indeed. And I look forward to the day when professional rugby league (ie Super League) is big enough to split into divisions with p&r between them. It isn't. There are at most 2 teams outside SL atm capable of being professional full time outfits, imo. And at most 14 teams inside SL (though given recent events at a number of clubs, not least, but not exclusively, Wrexham and Wakefield, some might argue there's not as many as 14

) However, the fact that cricket's authorities split one of the professional comps into two divisions in 2000 doesn't really bear on the argument for promotion and relegation between professional and semiprofessional comps – the comparison would be promotion and relegation between the professional full time county championship and the semiprofessional part time minor counties championship



I disagree. Very good example, the division between full-time professional comp and part time semi pro comp compares will with Super League and the Championship (both divisions). 8/10 (I've deducted two points from myself for not giving due attention to DemonUK's 'virtually'

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Nope, they applied for and were granted the equivalent of a franchise in 1991 (but without the RL time limit). Same as Glamorgan in 1921 and similar to Devon in 1948 (applied, but got rejected as not good enough).

do you actually get up each morning and think today im going to be slightly more boring than i was yesterday??
dont want to keep you though, trains to be spotted no doubt?

God it must be nice to be the all knowing

– I know, trying to bring facts into an RLfans discussion, what was I thinking of?

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