Some very good points, long overdue

interesting report. would their still be a end of season playoff series for the top so many clubs? or just a playoff between bottom and top. interesting how the cougars was used

Preaching to the converted . Anyone with half a brain knew most of this already, it's just the tip of the iceberg of dodgy RFL practices IMHO.
Some excellent points that should be implemented immediately, not sure what the problem with 32 year olds is though?

I am alright with it until point 5. Why have a play-off between the bottom club in SL and the top club in the Championship. That would be too biased in favour of the SL team with more expensive players under the SL salary cap as opposed to the Championship level players salary cap. I would go for a straight up and down as long as the minimum criteria was met.

Don't agree with the whole report though, for instance, there should be no playoff between bottom sl and top championship clubs. finish bottom relegated, top promoted

beat me to it

Fev recently beat a SL team that was not bottom of the table. I don't agree with the idea of a parachute payment. The big disparity between the SL and the CC is obviously the fact that SL teams are full time and receive the necessary money from Sky to maintain that status. The CC teams currently cannot afford to run a full time squad so the obvious happens more often than not when SL sides meet CC ones. The only way I could see a workable P & R system is for all teams in CC to be full time and receive yearly payments that are not too far behind the money SL clubs receive. Otherwise the leap is too great and we'd end up with either yo yo teams or, worse, a death in the family. Having said that I do agree though that clubs outside of SL are having their ambitions strangled through no fault of their own and dreams of crossing swords with the Wigan's and Leeds' of this world are just that, dreams that are highly unlikely to be fulfilled outside of the occasional Challenge Cup tie.