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I cannot see clubs voting for more fixtures. 32 games would be good for the Fans (I personally think the season is too short) but the players won't like it.

Do they do this sort of thing in any other sport, i know we have always been ground breakers but i can't see it working.

The clubs will vote for what they feel is best for each club and not for the game.

Somebody must be keen to see the 2 x 12 and 3 x 8 system.

Its times like these that they need to have the brains to realise that it was a poor idea in the first place and tweaking it wont change this fact.

If P/R is to be brought back, funding is still the key and as a sport we are incapable of securing top level sponsorship.

Maybe the solution is to share whatever Sky money there is, equally between the 24 clubs and go for the SL1 and 2 idea with P/R between the divisions.

I've a revolutionary idea. Why don't we do away with England and have a Great Britain team. Oh hang on! I can also feel a new concept of Yorkshire V Lancashire games a bit like Origin. Oh hang on! What about the concept of promotion and relegation where better teams can progress through the leagues. Oh bla bla bla bla!

we would all love 12 months of Rugby League!!!! Though I think February - October (excluding a month of friendlies) is enough. Injuries are already a massive issue for a lot of clubs.

...I have discussed this to death on our forum very recently. I hate the idea with a passion, and to scrap licencing now would mean we've wasted five years of steady growth from the majority of SL clubs. Wakefield, Widnes, Catalans, Huddersfield, Hull KR and now Salford have improved their table positions, club structure, new stadiums ..in such a short time.

I think there's more competition for England places than ever. There's better quality young English players coming through as the licencing system gives teams the security they need to be able to expose young players to SL earlier and more frequently - proven by the number of English players in the NRL (potentially we have 7 in the England squad playing NRl)

OK, licencing hasn't worked for all - London STILL hasn't taken off, and Cas have done very little. But hey, that's the idea of them being up for renewal every three years! If you're not cutting the mustard, you lose your licence and effectively, get relegated. It's just that relegation encompasses more than just league position.

Our sport being played at the top level was languishing behind other sports. Salford's old ground, Cas, Wakefield's ground and Saints' ground were/are all delapidated - and all of these clubs are trying/have tried to rectify this.

Licencing is an excellent way of demanding improvement from clubs in ALL aspects, expecially the big one for me, youth development.

............and I think over the 100 billion posts on here, that's in the top three

After initial scepticism I came round to the idea of the 3x8 proposal, although the top 12 get a full home & away fixtures, which is great for those teams, I thought the idea was to have more teams playing opposition similar to their level. That's why it would've been better the other way round.

As ever though the key is funding. If no more money can be secured from either Sky or potential new sponsors (and I have no confidence in Wood et al to manage the later) then the current funding must be split evenly between the 24 clubs otherwise there is little point going ahead with this.

It just looks like a way of getting a smaller SL by the back door.
When they have a SL with 12, 10 or 8 teams what is stop them from treating the rest of the structure like they do the present lower leagues i.e cutting them adrift?...nothing!!!

but there will always be a bottom team and a top team, no matter how you structure the league!

waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

You're right. The RFL clearly want 12x2 followed by 3x8 so that's what will happen, regardless of the clubs opinions/concerns.

This in turn will see an announcement where the structures are changing again and teams in the SL 8 at the end of a particular season will be in there permenantly and the draw bridge will be pulled up. The remaining teams will make a 'very strong second tier of rugby league in the UK'.

Rather than being ground breaking, radical or any other fancy phrase, why don't they concentrate on getting a main sponsor! As for league structure.... promotion and relegation sounds like a winner to me.

Bang on Kinley !
The very nature of the proposed structure, brings in a 12 team top flight and then sugars the pill by offering a secondary competition.
For the new structure to happen, 2 existing SL clubs (and possibly 3 if Toulouse gain admission) will lose their spot at the top table but the sport hasn't got a big enough "pair" to tell people what it is trying to achieve.
Rugby league is like a rudderless ship, its no wonder we cant attract sponsorship into the game.

I'm all for innovation and trying new things, but they are starting to irritate me chopping and changing all the time and give the game time to grow. It's been on a steady increase since the early 90's, why not let people get familiar with it and keep it simple!