Warrington big club they went in a taxi to the grand final

Quite.

Think you've hit it there. And, as others have said, Saints are the mysterious anomoly.

TV money?? do you like being obtuse or what?
The vast amount of money that London in their various guises have had over the years has being a complete waste in a vain attempt to 'spread the word' in the capital. No one can possibly deny that.

since Union went Pro they have only gone one way, up, where as RL in the same time has declined due to bad management and un-realistic ambitions.

Problem with that is the big difference in salary cap. How often would you expect the Championship side to win? Not really promotion & relegation then, if that's what you want.

Could apply most of what you said to the a London club, but Catalan put heartland clubs to shame with crowds, passion and bringing through local players, especially the likes of Salford and Wakey, and after there initial season have competed very well on the pitch too. If you just don't like the French or the idea of having to travel there etc that's fair enough, can hardly call them a failure though, if so Hull and Rovers are failures, don't win anything, poor atmospheres especially in our case, and further out then most of the clubs in West Yorkshire or Lancashire.

Yep.
It will be the same normal 8 in the SL playoffs as they will be able to start to recruit earlier as they will know they are in SL the following year, then you will have 8 teams in the second playoff group that will be so unbalanced that there will probably be at least 1 battering a week. Add to that another playoff group that will again be unbalanaced so batterings all around in this one as well.
If you were to write down a league structure that is god awful I doubt you could write a worst one then above.
Some still won't have it that the RFL are useless though.

Do you not think those might be linked and that everything is not only down to bad management?

There's a difference between handouts and monetary reward for services rendered. The way you talk is as if you think London and Catalan are wrongly taking money away from others, when TV money is simply them being apportioned their fair and agreed upon share. Now you might not agree that they have given fair return for that money, but firstly that's beside the point, and secondly absolute codswallop if you're applying it to Catalan. Catalan are a great success and an asset to SL, pretending otherwise is just stubborn and/or misguided.

Agreed. France's world cup squad is a great endorsement of Catalan. It looks pretty strong and only contains one player who hasn't played for them at some point (Fages at Salford). It also contains only one antipodean, which is less than Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy, and USA, and the same amount as us.

No, it's not, but it is a compromise, and like I said, it maintains an interest at the bottom of SL. FWIW I would like to see P & R.

like the idea of p and r, whatever happens something needs to be sorted,

The trouble is, thanks in part to Sky, 2 or 3 footballers earn more in a season than the whole of Superleague.

There just isn't enough money around to create a fair and realistic structure.

Agree..Hetherington has had his hand in Red Halls pocket for years, and I can't help thinking that the reason he never walked out with the six is because he has his own agenda on the matter.

FYI. Cas owe nothing to the RFL but contempt for relegating us twice , once on the back of the French being exempt and the other time on the back of wigans blatant cheating of the SC