You have completely missed the point again. They don't need to not finish in the bottom four, Finishing in the bottom four for 2 seasons wouldn't be a problem as long as they were good enough to come in the top four of the eight split. Fev get next to no money currently and have a youth set up, they run as many teams as superleague teams do. So if they can put out academy sides with no funding why would they scrap it with extra funding.

I trust the board at featherstone, I know the chairman and hes not daft. If we can cope on nothing in the championship I have no doubt us and other champ teams could cope financially in SL, certainly better than some of the current lot have

So you play 23 games to get the chance to win something, as opposed to playing 23 games to get the chance to avoid losing something


Sounds similar to me

So Celtic Crusaders didnt cease to exist? , so where are they now?

So the Crusaders didnt cease to exist? , so where are they now?

dont start that tripe again. your the only person who thinks that

and again you keep forgetting, possibly deliberately, that right now Fev have to try and be the best of a bunch of semi-pro sides who also get 0 funding and they were comfortably beaten by an SL basketcase. Under the new structure they will be competing with sides that get just over 3 times their funding, and if they get through that, they will be competing against teams who get three times the funding and probably three times the attendances, much much more in corporate and sponsorship.

the first 22 rounds are disregarded, thats not an opinion it is a fact. Every team will start again on 0 points.

And it is different from a play-off which you need to qualify for, and the position that you qualify in effects your route to the final. Again that isnt opinion it is fact.

Well Celtic Crusaders certainly didnt cease to exist in the year they reached the championship play-off final.

Is it about teams, or clubs? ,make your mind up?

A well run efficient growing club? , or a basket case club with a succession of idiots running it?

The league then knockout structure is popular throughout the world. It is used in most of the biggest competitions in the world.

I am not aware of any other structure in the world that part way through the season disregards previous points totals and starts a new league competition.

both
What?

That was 2007 , I said 2008

So the positions after those 22 games are sorted alphabetically?
population?
combined shoe sizes?

points accumulated?





Who is this basketcase team that beat us comfortably ???

And who is this Part time team you talk of, cant speak for other champ teams but Fev will be full time from 2015.

If Fev can't break the bottom four of super league so be it at least they may have the opportunity

Yes and promotion and relegation is popular throughout the world as well

There have been several major competitions with more than 1 knock out group stage played on a league basis culminating in 1 final elimination match, so whats different?

no it wasnt, they were promoted through franchising when it began in 2009.

They played in the 2008 championship grand final.

Quote ="fevfan76"So the positions after those 22 games are sorted alphabetically? population? combined shoe sizes? points accumulated?'" The points are reset to 0. You can sort them at that point in to any order you want its not going to make a difference. Those 8 clubs then restart a new league. Quote Who is this basketcase team that beat us comfortably ??? '" hth www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/match/rl3619046 Quote And who is this Part time team you talk of, cant speak for other champ teams but Fev will be full time from 2015.'" you can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. You can call Fev's squad full-time if you want. But that isnt a professional squad. Quote If Fev can't break the bottom four of super league so be it at least they may have the opportunity'" Why? why does giving Fev an opportunity to be one of the worst sides in SL supersede the growth and stability of the game as a whole?

Quote ="fevfan76"So the positions after those 22 games are sorted alphabetically? population? combined shoe sizes? points accumulated?'" The points are reset to 0. You can sort them at that point in to any order you want its not going to make a difference. Those 8 clubs then restart a new league. Quote Who is this basketcase team that beat us comfortably ??? '" hth www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/match/rl3619046 Quote And who is this Part time team you talk of, cant speak for other champ teams but Fev will be full time from 2015.'" you can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. You can call Fev's squad full-time if you want. But that isnt a professional squad. Quote If Fev can't break the bottom four of super league so be it at least they may have the opportunity'" Why? why does giving Fev an opportunity to be one of the worst sides in SL supersede the growth and stability of the game as a whole?

not really. Yearly P+R in this format or the previous ones used are almost exclusive to European Soccer. Outside that most major sports dont have anything comparable.
like?

You said the Crusaders ( not Celtic ) played in 2009 ,make your mind up?

The biggest team sporting event in the world perhaps?

its at the top of this page you silly banana. You even quoted it



is this where we see you pretend to get confused again?

Lol I mean the 22 games are not irrelevant, they sort out the positions in the league.



Yet still better than many SL teams did against them last season



Getting paid full time to do a job is professional




speculating again, you forgot to put "in your bias opinion"

Whywould Fev being in SL not help the growth of the game - go on real of another load of bull from your mind and speculation. look into your crystal ball you have and tell me our attendance would be crap because were from a hamlet. That we would end up skint and that players such as Hardaker, Burrows and briscoe still wouldn't play for us.

Which one?

The NFL has a league then play off structure, the football world cup has a league then play-off structure, the Champions league has a league then play-off structure, as does the NBA, NHL, NRL, RUWC, RLWC.

The Cricket World cup has a very wierd system that kind of has two leagues parts of it but its universally derided as a pretty crappy system.

Its you who is confused, Celtic Crusaders and the Crusaders are/were 2 different clubs

One cheated by playing players on dodgy VISA s financed by RFL development grants and played in Bridgend

The other went bump playing out of Wrexham and didnt pay loads of its players wages

Roaring success's both wouldnt you say?

The football world cup has 2 group stages played on a league basis, it used to have 3 at one point, the Champions league had 2 also at 1 point

But you have already said Fev arent going to compete to win the thing or for the play-offs, so quite literally those games are irrelevant.

not really, London were by far the worst team in SL last year and would have finished bottom if not for Salford appealing their punishment for having too many men on the field

it takes more than that to be a pro RL player. As i said, you can call them pro if you want. But it doenst change the fact. If someone paid me to be an RL player, i still wouldnt make an professional RL player


There wasnt speculation or an opinion in there. It was a question. Hardaker, Burrow and Brsicoe still wouldnt play for you for the same reason Greg Inglis doesnt play for leeds, because they have contracts elsewhere, and two of them have never played for you