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| Wouldn't worry Willzay unless our club takes a totally different path than the one over the last few seasons we will be one of the four relegated.
That for me should be treated as a wake up call.
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| Quote lampyboy="lampyboy"Wouldn't worry Willzay unless our club takes a totally different path than the one over the last few seasons we will be one of the four relegated.
That for me should be treated as a wake up call.'"
They would have to take a different route go part time
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| On the face of it it seems a pretty fair scheme. I agree, Trinity are likely to be one of the "Four" to go down, but let's face facts, it's only been at the misfortune of others that we are still in SL.. We'll just have to take it on the chin and make ourselves noticed in the second tier.
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| We could of course take the opportunity to use our existing place in SL to strengthen the squad and change our coach. It is time for the club to invest or face relegation with a loss of central funding and starting from scratch. I am sure if we were relegated Chester would be the first to leave.
We have been lucky in recent seasons but now is the time to give luck some support with a better squad and coach.
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| To an extent, fighting for promotion in a league of 10 decent clubs would be more exciting than wondering every year whether we'll get relegated. Let's face it, in a top flight of 10, we would get relegated at some point. Fairly quickly, probably. For me, the prospect of relegation was fear of the consequences. If it is into a decent league with decent funding, it might work out okay.
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| Quote Slugger McBatt="Slugger McBatt"To an extent, fighting for promotion in a league of 10 decent clubs would be more exciting than wondering every year whether we'll get relegated. Let's face it, in a top flight of 10, we would get relegated at some point. Fairly quickly, probably. For me, the prospect of relegation was fear of the consequences. If it is into a decent league with decent funding, it might work out okay.'"
I've not supported the club for over 50 years to be happy with crumbs off the top table. I want to see some success before I snuff it FFS. Otherwise I have wasted a large proportion of my life.
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| Quote wotsupcas="wotsupcas"I've not supported the club for over 50 years to be happy with crumbs off the top table. I want to see some success before I snuff it FFS. Otherwise I have wasted a large proportion of my life.'"
And we'll get it under the current structure?
I'm not saying I want a new structure, but the health of the game is dependent on the health of the top flight, as that is what will attract sponsors and better media coverage. If you don't want a top flight of ten because then we'll be feeding off the top-table crumbs, it sounds like your idea of success is finishing eleventh,
The point I was making that as things stand, relegation would be calamitous, but relegation into a better funded league of ten good clubs would be better than relegation as it currently exists. We will go down eventually if we continue as we are.
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| Quote Willzay="Willzay"10 teams in SL how boring.'"
10 teams in SL any body who is watching SL on TV at present thinks there is 5 Leeds, Hull, Wires, Wigan Catalan .that's boring .The worry for S L .should be the standed between the top and bottom as far as mistakes and fast open rugby is not a lot .and it's only owners willing to throw more money into a club that is thousands of pounds in det on so called top players that is the difference between the top and bottom
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| 10 teams would be horrific playing each other 3 times would be boring. Also the championship has improved in recent years and it's been quite exciting.
14 team league for me. Relegation/promotion games back on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Mpg still where championship playoff 2nd place faces 2nd bottom of SL at the championship clubs ground.
Generating excitement and also fairness for teams in the championship. We have taken a hit with covid and games on crazy midweek days.
Let's just create this layout would be fab.
The game lacks promotion and we need to get rid of the stupid bans where players get 3 games for nothing absolutely moronic with this covid going on.
It's not rocket science.
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| “One drawback of the proposal would be a lack of home games, with an 18-fixture format providing a guarantee of just nine home games per season. However, it's thought there are plans to ensure clubs can host further home fixtures.”
So that’s more loop fixtures then.
I just don’t think this solves the problem of the same 3 or 4 teams slugging it out every season ie. boring leading to reduction of interest and attendances.
I’d have 16 teams in SL split in to 2 conferences East and West (call them what you want), the current 12 plus the top 4 from the Champs. Something like;
West ~ Saints, Wigan, Warrington, Salford, Leigh, Catalans, Toulouse, Widnes
East ~ Cas, Hull, Hull KR, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield, Featherstone, Bradford
(Just chose the 4 Champ clubs at random, it would be the top 4 at the end of the season)
Teams in each conference play each other home and away and play each team from the other conference either home or away = 22 games
Lots of tasty derby matches plus one offs against “big” teams in the other conference. Play offs between top 4 in each conference eg West 1 v East 4 etc - straightforward knockout (no fannying around with second chances).
I know there’s the issue of funding but clubs need to focus on increasing their crowds and not being reliant on Sky money. More local derby matches and only occasional visits from eg. Wigan, Leeds, Saints = more interest and bigger crowds.
There, job done.
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| If sky do what they currently do now it will be more likened to the SPL showing the big 4-5 teams. If they did split it then the next division needs to be covered more otherwise can see it being a big turnoff
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| Ultimately its a money grab, there isn't enough around so the 10 clubs in SL 1 will have the dosh, sl2 will become the championship and over time its funding will decrease, then the 10 in SL1 will want further more of the pie and reduce it to 8, playing each other 4 times to make ends meet.
I'm not adverse to dropping down a division to something that is more our level in terms of resource, as competing in a lower division (not guaranteed) will be more enjoyable than what's been served up over the past 20 years, with a few blips of a decent season in dotted amongst it (2004, 2008 2009, 2017, 2018).
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