The franchise system will be the death of rugby league, giving no hope of super league status to the vast majority of clubs,

The whole franchises thing for me is best summed up by the announcements earlier this season that Widnes had been awarded a 'franchise'

A club got promoted by a bloke stood on a podium, reading a piece of paper on sky sports news. If that's sport then i'm african. It was absolutely panned by the media and rightly so.

Show us some links HL because I don't remember the media "panning" it? Ignoring it yes.

Here is what I suggested in a similar discussion recently on VT, I believe it's the best compromise:


"Promotion and relegation occurs every second season.

Whoever accumulates (over two seasons) the fewest points is relegated from SL, and the highest is promoted from NL1.

Then, the second lowest of SL plays off against the 2nd highest in NL1 to determine if another team drops. This one-off match is hosted by the NL1 team (some little compensation for the fact that they will argue that they can't afford a roster as good as SL teams)."

They'd be well within their rights to argue that very fact, they'd probably get pasted.

Absolutely right. Exactly why the promotion/relegation play-off was dropped. Waste of time at NL1/NL2 level and it'd be even worse at SL/CC level.

[sizeDamn - I'm agreeing with ESO again.[/size