Wasn't Hudgell one of the driving forces to get it to 12?

Bring back franchising but base it on inclusion rather than exclusion. If a team is good enough off the field, let them in. Increase the overseas quota and salary cap to encourage stars from overseas. Work out how to manage a bigger league as it grows.

Top six into the play-off system. Bottom 8 play-off for a shield.

I'd rather see a well structured academy/reserve grade than a couple of extra teams from France,Canada etc

14 for me with Toulouse and Toronto being added to the leagues and seemingly more growth to come.

Keep it as it is!!! I think its becoming a joke that people want it changing nearly every season.

The only change I would make would be to get rid of the MPG. Top 4 come straight up. No 4th vs 5th crap.

Super 8s stay as it is. Yeh the bottom 2/3 teams may not have a chance of a top 4 finish but its their own fault for letting the top 4 get so far ahead.

This would seem the fairest option, but Sky love drama like this 'cos it makes good telly. However it is heartless for all the true fans of the teams involved.

The team that finishes first should be champions. Either get rid of the Grand Final gimmick or turn it into another comp e.g football has the league and FA cup.

The grand final is hardly a gimmick, there has been a final more than there hasn't been through the history of our game. The only real period that there wasn't one was from the early 70s to super league.

Did I dream about the RL Premiership that lasted until 1995?

I'm not really old enough to remember the premiership in masses of detail, remember a couple of the later ones. I was meaning more a grand final to determine the league champions, akin to what we have now, but you're quite right, there was a final of some description.

Only teams beginning with W were allowed to win it.

........and overlook one of the biggest most prosperous cities in the world located some 150 miles south of the RL hub, and they say there is not bigotry towards the south.

Could i vote for 8 please.








Regards - Jamie Peacock

Nice one, been saying this until I am blue in the face.

I want the one that declares whatever soccer does as the last word in English sporting tradition and for our own traditions to be cast aside.

12 or 14, either for me. Don't want 10, simply too stale meeting and re-meeting such a small pool of opponents. I'd happily take the (alleged) dip in quality to avoid that scenario.

Sorry, I meant 18

Regards J Peacok

nice one.

No you didn't dream (well not about that

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It was a separate competition for the top 8 clubs in the old first division (there was something similar for the lower leagues as well) and the finals day was at Old Trafford.
This was replaced with the Grand Final when we moved to the summer era.

Way back, before I started watching, the competition had the top of the old first division and some clubs from the second tier all in the same end of season comp.

No you didn't dream (well not about that

)
It was a separate competition for the top 8 clubs in the old first division (there was something similar for the lower leagues as well) and the finals day was at Old Trafford.
This was replaced with the Grand Final when we moved to the summer era.

Way back, before I started watching, the competition had the top of the old first division and some clubs from the second tier all in the same end of season comp.

There has been a Grand Final to decide the champions of rugby league in this country for 75 of the 126 years of the sport, with only 46 years where the champions were the league leaders.

So this sport had sense for only 46 years.

I see no reason to have a set number. That is completely arbitrary.

The number should be based on what is financially viable and what is in the long term interests of the sport.

You could still run this system with 14 or 16 teams.

The issue is always around the money. The SL teams want as much money as they can get for as little effort as possible. Hence the move to 12 teams.
Reducing the size of the competition has never been a system for growing a market.

If it was then the USSR would have been the standard bear for development and all sports would be a 1 team franchise.

If you had 16 teams, you'd have to have London, one French team and the Wolfpack. You'd then have to ditch promotion and relegation for a decade at least, to let the league take shape and give all teams a fair crack of the whip. Bottom line is there just isn't enough money floating around in RL.