Rest players, lose games and finish 10th or 11th and have an extra away game. It is designed to make all games competitive.

Ah yeah of course, I didn't take into account the home and away part of the equation.

Does this mean the Challenge Cup will be pushed to the back of the season as Round 5 of the cup will have to be after Round 23 of the league?

Why would it have to be after round 23 they take the placings from the previous season so this years top 8 will only enter the cup at round 6 (last 16)

I assume it's the top 8 from the previous season not the current one.

Ah ok

To me they're separate comps so one shouldn't impact the other

It is a seperate comp but I think what they are trying to do is make the games more competitive and avoid a lot of the annihilations that we currently see.

I was against these changes when they were announced but happy to accept them with an open mind now, the game is going stale.

tonight's game for example is pretty much dead rubber, Cas still need the points to finish top4, but even if we went on a miraculous run and finished 8th we are a million miles from Old Trafford. Under the new structure tonight's game would still be important for Cas to finish top4 as it is now, but we would be fighting for our lives to avoid ending the season against Championship teams and potentially losing our SL place.

The Magic game still makes for a lopsided fixture list. It should be every other team home and away. Someone will have to take on Wigan three times whilst someone else get the luxury of playing us three times.

Also, as Doc Brown says, two teams could play each other three times in the 'regular' season, once in the 'Super 8s', once in the play offs and once in the Cup. Far too many.

with the big clubs now getting more big money spinning games, the Magic Weekend either needs to go back to its original objective of showcasing RL to non-heartland areas or it needs to be scrapped.

An example that could have happened this season

We will play rovers 3 times. We could also have faced them in the cup and twice in the play offs making 6 games.

So in effect no different to this season.

I'm going to wait for someone who can spell structure to comment first, then we can have a conversation