One of the best things about the championship has been the genuine warmth which other clubs...and fans...have welcomed us with. Apart from the ball boys at Fev! I know part of this will be down to the financial boost of our away following, but I think it's down to much more than that, a genuine respect for the game and the opponents. Some of the 'bigger' clubs could do with toning down their arrogance and follow suit.

The championship is a good competition and for second league the attendances between around 500-3000 is pretty good I think.

There’s a few clubs that have some real potential long term to become strong clubs.

I honestly think that given the effort to find some decent investment in sponsorship and tv deals (not every game but 1/2 per round) that the clubs could certainly flourish.

If they could look for a deal half the value of the SL and apply central funding to 50% of what SL clubs get then the Championship could become a really positive competition.

There just doesn’t seem any willingness from the top to really drive it or find the investment.

One of those individuals being the president of the RFL! Honestly, the sport doesn`t help itself in terms of reputation at all.

It’s such a shame though. Being in the championship I honestly believe that the clubs are mostly left just to get on with it and fend for themselves. It’s so very bizarre how it’s been cast aside almost.

Why not increase the SL to 14.

Restructure championship and League 1 into a slightly bigger single league.

Re-imagine the Championship with fresh branding, promote a new image and relaunch and secure a tv deal aiming for 40-50% of the SL value over 3-5 years.

All clubs in championship to get around 300-400 central funding to support a strong part time squad and or to use off field to grow.

It feels like a couple of clubs are struggling at the moment. If the sport could seriously invest in the championship as its own comp instead of a bolt on to SL then it would strengthen the sport from bottom up.

Any deal the SL has to have a cut is ridiculous tbh. Both comps should have their own nagotiated deals independently. It’s just a barrier for growth.

MONEY

Definitely. But there will never be any without any motivation or serious ambition to seek it out.

They are only interested in the now and that does not involve splitting the Sky money 14 ways.

But that's the point of IMG recommendation. They want to make a league of teams that are self sustaining, so that the Sky money isn't as big an impact.

Halifax in trouble, seems a worst situation than Whitehaven. https://t.co/knB0rAPLoV

Halifax in trouble, seems a worst situation than Whitehaven. https://t.co/knB0rAPLoV

York beat Sheffield to leapfrog the Eagles into 4th on points difference

Fev can go 5th if they beat. Dewsbury by 26+, and 4th if they win by more than 80

Widnes could go into 4th if they can beat Toulouse, which would then give Bradford a chance of 2nd spot if they beat Halifax

Confirms my view that this is a very competitive division apart from us at the top and Dewsbury at the bottom. We'll need to be on top form come the play offs.

York vs Fev next week should be a cracker. In effect it’s a play off for the play offs.

Both Widnes & Sheffield should win, so the loser likely to be 7th & the winner 4th. Suspect that Fev will miss out & we will end up playing York in the PO semi at BV.

Agreed York v Featherstone is a massive game next week. If you take us and Dewsbury out of the equation it has been a fascinating season with the play off places only being finalised on the last day of the regular season. Four teams are competing for three places and one of them is going to be very unlucky. Such a shame that a TV deal wasn't sorted out to showcase the Championship to a wider audience

It might be competitive but the standard is awful.

There's some technically very good teams in the Championship, I'd go as far as to say there are games where Trinity have been outdone in pure rugby terms but our far superior physicality has won the game. Apart from the two outliers at either end of the table the Championship has been a close fought and exciting division this year.