Quote ="Scooter Nik"The ideal structure would surely be:
Top of the tree, SLE. The best European clubs playing in the elite division, be they English, French, Welsh or whatever.
SLE constructed as it is now with the top 14, 15 or 16 clubs playing across Europe, home and away.
The next division is national leagues in each country. The highest club in each division (or similar) play each other for one promotion place, the bottom SLE team returning to it's relevant national league. Obviously this will create an imbalance in those leagues affected, so the ultimate aim - should there ever be sufficient support in the game - would be to create second, third and fourth SLE divisions which would then be run as a straight professional league with one up, one down rules.
OK, it needs tweaking - but thats where we should be going. Forget national boundries and go truely European.'"
I support this project and I think it'd be good for the development of the game. Though I don't think the politics of RL will make it possible in the near future.
A crucial question is what would be the governing body? The problem is that the RFL is the only credible candidate at the moment and it is not in their interest really to build a truly European competition. As a British organisation with representatives from British clubs, the RFL interest is more to organise a British competition enhanced with some continental flavour.
To organise a truly European competition, you'd need a European organisation. I don't see the RFL spontaneously proposing to create a joint body with the FFR13 to create and supervise a fully European league. The difference in size and organisation is too large and the RFL is better off (at least in the short term) not sharing any decision power with a weak French federation for the sake of a European project.
I think you can expect the (partially European) Super League to stay as it is for a while.
