Ah Pickering gets to the root of it.

Castigated, made to wear a leper's bell, shunned by his local community and then correctly exiled for his one eyed choice Jake trawled the wastelands of Gypsyville, Coltman Street, North Hull Estate for like minded (some cruel people say simple minded) folks with similar deviant interests. They came together in their collective ideology of
1 over rating their abilities
2 revelling in their own self importance
3 leaving before the end in order to avoid the reality of defeat

This exile and wandering drives the 4-8 daily urges to strike back at those that rightfully shunned him.

It makes sense now.

I got on quite well with the Hedon lot. I'd imagine Jake was the butt of all jokes tho and constantly got his head rammed up a u bend in the queens toilets, whilst being flushed.

As it has been reported in at least a couple of reputable news sources, maybe I was too quick to dismiss it as wishful thinking. Everybody plays 24 games across 26 rounds, with 2 rest weeks each. Make magic weekend the last 16 of the cup. That'd be my guess anyway. Could work. Could also help address the increasingly pressing issues around player welfare. Even from an owners perspective, there's not much point getting extra revenue from extra games if it all goes on funding a bigger squad just to add depth.

That only makes sense in your gaff on falkland road

I'm hedon royalty me mate. On the rare occasions I go back to meet up with old mates they hold a civic recption

I'm pretty sure the salary cap means the squad costs the same no matter what the size(ignoring the cost of training gear and a few more butties at lunch)

I like the idea of the cup QF's for magic weekend but there are a couple of problems that would mean it was probably too difficult to do.

1. The teams involved would find out too late to allow fans to book rooms, especially if they move the QF's to the magic weekend current date.

2. With championship teams involved it would impact the big bash which seems to be a decent event and one the RFL wouldn't want to lose

Yeah, but not all SL clubs, or even most I suspect, spend up to the full elasticated limit.

However, it does seem that there's maybe been a change in interpretations or application of the rules. Unless our reluctance to bring in players on loan last year and your need to loan them out this, which have been to some extent blamed on the cap, actually just reflect budget constraints.

Whatever, I don't share your confidence in your ability to understand the salary cap. Or numbers more generally.

Quarter finals only give 4 games across 2 days. IMO last 16 works better, with 8 games is closer to the current format.

You could have the 13 SL clubs enter at that stage, leaving only 3 spots for Championships teams who would have 'qualified for magic', with a good-sized gap from the end of the qualifying rounds. Other Championship teams get that weekend off, and the bash remains as it is at, but held during a different part of the season.

There are ways it could be made to work on paper. I Still struggle to see major changes before 2019 though.

If we're going up, lets earn our place. If they then turn round and say 'actually Widnes can stay up as well' ( sorry, only using Widnes as an example cos they are currently footing the SL ) Then all well and good. I think the bottom teams in SL are sh**ing it because we saw last year that relegation can be a reality. As a by product of the change, Bradford would not be relegated from Championship, which is a tick in the RFL's 'reasons for' column I suspect. I believe they are waiting to make a decision/announcement until the end of the season so that no-one takes their foot off the pedal. My instinct is that there will be 13 teams in SL next year.

Of course they do, after all what village wouldn't celebrate getting its idiot back?

She's just arrived at Secret Hill Top Lair v.2 in readiness for Big Family Wedding 2017, she say she can only remember you from Room 3.

Ahh room 3. Where the students who found work challenging went.

Room 3? I was one of her a level students man

I wonder if in these more enlightened times they're still allowed to stick all the thickos in room 3