Has the 4 th new Championship 1 club been announced ?

We have Northampton , Hemel and Gloucester

Have I missed the 4 th one being announced ?

The Bradford Debtors are set to be announced as the 4th new club at the end of the month.


Not announced yet. Who are the teams in the running? I remember Coventry & Chester being mentioned. Was the other one Oxford?

it's got to be Coventry, surely

Wasn't Medway also mentioned.

Should be Bradford Bulls but thought i'd read somewhere it was Coventry.

With only a few weeks left till the end of the season , Surely they should have announced it by now , as currently there are 9 teams next year in Championship 1 , clubs will be looking to sort out budgets , fixtures and ST prices

We could do with these clubs actually fulfilling their fixtures to a respectible outcome and not getting into money troubles. Any chance of that happening? It seems a big jump from complete amateur status/nothing to Championship 1 level. The travel costs and paying players enough to attract a reasonable squad would be in the hundreds of thousands category?

Which clubs are you reffering to ?

Get them to follow the Bulls method of running a club. If they can't afford to pay wages the RFL will pay them.

If that wasn't inviting the obvious answer i don't know what would

You naughty boy starbug

I'm pretty sure the RFL will sort out the fixtures, don't worry too much about that.

I imagine that, if I were an Oldham or Gateshead fan, my decision to buy a season ticket would be based on whether I wanted/could afford one rather than whether Oxford or Coventry were the new club in the league.

Maybe they could announce who is getting relegated earlier in the season so clubs could prepare?

I thought it was Coventry or was that for something else?