I agree, clubs should only be promoted when they are good enough for the league IMO. This would make the league below alot stronger and those clubs would have alot more urgency to better themselves, up untill now we just havn't seen that.



Wigan

Leeds

Saints

Wire

Hull FC

Bradford

Hull KR

Catalans

Hudds

Crusaders



The other 4 can go down the the next league which would only include teams who are good enough to apply for super league.



This would create genuine competition in the league below and more games in super league would be far far better.



Castleford

Wakefield

Salford

Harlequins

Leigh

Widnes

Halifax

Featherstone

Sheffield

Toulouse



This creates two leagues stronger than we have now.



The teams from the league below this would then have to better themselves to get into the 2nd league so they could potentially apply for super league.

I didn't like this idea at first, but as a Leigh fan at least there's still some hope and something to play for. If this happened we could also find free weekends for Internationals too.

I think most clubs are seeing an increase in the number of half decent youngsters coming through. They may not be world beaters but we are at a stage were we can develop youngsters physically and train them to a level were they can do a job while the bigger stars shine. I think in 3 years the % of home grown players starting each game will be a lot higher and defences tend to be a little sterner when lads are palying for "their" club.



I don't think now's the time to be talking about that sort of thing.

12 teams = 22 games possibly 23 games with a magic weekend.

Unless they cut it to five teams it won't change much in terms of quality. 6 through to 14 are pretty much the same.

If they cut it by 4 teams, thats 4 teams worth of super league talent to go around. For example I said Wakey, Cas, Salford and Quins should go down to make 10 teams, all the quality players from those teams would get spread around the other teams and would therefore improve the quality.



All the other players would play in the league below and improve the quality there.

So that is Michael Shenton, Richard Owen, Westerman, Rob Purdham and LMS. The rest go go back to the NSW cup/Championship If you believe the rumours 4 of them are going to top 5 clubs next year anyway.



I don't think cutting these teams is fair especially when Hull KR are asking for quota exceptions and the named 4 have actually being trying to develop their own talent. It would be rewarding short sightedness.



We need to reduce the number of games not the number of teams.

Matt,



If we have 10 teams and we play home and away that gives each team 9 home games - gives Sky 6 weeks less coverage?



The numbers simply don't add up - season ticket prices would have to fall by 25% to justify the reduced number of games?



Where is the revenue coming from?

We could have a bye week to spread the season out and give the mid-season international a week of its own.



Last time the number of games got reduced most teams didn't decrease the season ticket prices.

As Much as i like the idea



I dont think it would work. Big Teams like wigan and Leeds and saints, would lose out on TV revenue and they won't allow that

Don't think Barrow fans would be very impressed with that set up. Switch Sheffield for Barrow and I would be quite happy with that structure. But surely 9 home games a year would be nowhere near enough to to fund a full time club? Especially in the '2nd' super league as the away support wouldn't be great from lots of teams.



On the other hand maybe a club like Harlequins could improve crowds as they would be a 'big' club in SL2 rather than at the bottom of SL1.



Can't see it happening though really as I dont think the 2nd tier would be viable as a full time league.

I think that we do play too many games over the season but clubs need all the league games they get to make money pure and simple. I think one way round it is to put the play offs back to 6 teams perhaps even 4 thus making the seaosn shorter and giving everyone a rest before end of season internationals. Perhaps bringing the season foward a week too. Those together could give the players an extra 3/4 weeks rest before 4 nations/world cup/test series etc too.