If this was to happen who will the RFL bring in if anyone ?
I would think they would like Toulouse if they were ready.

Someone who qualified to be in Super League last time meeting all requirements.
So Halifax. Not that it will happen though.

Too late for 2013 now. Go ahead with 13 clubs, invite bids for 2014 in Feb/March time and make a decision as soon as possible ahead of the 2014 season. That's what I'd do anway (if it were to happen).

Fax would be my preference though, only because they're less than half an hour away.

Sheffield.

Salford RLFC (2013) Ltd

It is too late for 2013. No club could assemble a team in such a short time, even given the availability of all currently contracted Salford players.

So it must be 2014.

In 2014 there will be one club with a modern 10,000 seat stadium which will be ready and able to challenge the existing clubs of Super League. That club is [size=120Toulouse Olympique.[/size

Sheffield Eagles play in a +30,000 seater stadium...

Fixed.

I'll have a pint of what you're having.

Leigh at a push. Have another Lancs team in.

If you go to 13 teams, which one misses the magic weekend?

Don't give them the answer they are fishing for

Whoops lol

I'd go with Sheffield, but as has been said no team has a chance of being competitive for 2013

No one, it's far too late for any side to recruit the players and coaches required to be competitive although if P & R returns the side promoted won't exactely have much longer to adapt to SL.

13 teams would suffice and no doubt some SL chairman would be happy to have a marginally larger slice of the pie

Im not sure that many would, 1/13th of £1.2m is 92k, 15k fans times £15 a ticket is 225k

Bit of a drop in revenue for some clubs.


But yes, a club should be admitted when it can show it is ready, if thats this year (doubtful!) next year, the year after, whenever.

If there was a will it would be pretty easy to assemble a competitive team for the first season. You just have to think outside the box. introduce a one off American style "draft". each existing SL club are allowed to exempt say 10 players from their squad all other player are available to be loaned to the new club, subject to keeping within salary cap and no more than 1 player per team. Suddenly the promoted team have 13 SL proven players, add in a few existing players stepping up and some Salford players and you have a team that really should not finish bottom. RFL pay all expenses and players revert to their own club at seasons end.

That buys a year for the new club to organise themselves. With a will it could be done, that scenario is no more ludicrous than the other clubs buying Bradford, which was proposed. That said, it will never happen, they may admit some club who feel they cannot turn it down, but are woefully unprepared and get hammered week in week out.

You are right about admitting a new club, only when they are ready but your maths for the shortfall is a little slanted.
Although Wigan and Leeds would perhaps suffer the largest shortfall (with these clubs attracting most support), however the avarage SL attendance for 2012 was just over 9500 so the overall loss would be less than you are indicating and for the worst supported clubs thare may actually be a benifit in taking 92k , compared with gate receipts for the "cancelled" game.

The main issue, with fixtures already published, would be the imbalance with "The Magic Weekend" and the knock on effects with this and the nice people from Sky and I pressume that the contract that SL have with Sky is based on a cretain number of teams competing ?

Simple,drop widnes back down to the championship then you have a nice even number,they finished bottom plus never won a grand final in the license period ,wait scratch that they never made a grand final was it 7th they finished the last season in the championship

If they went to 13 ,magic weekend doesnt happen , odd number of teams doesnt work with odd number of fixtures



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Of course it'd work! Just have the 13th team play against a Championship club or incorporate the World Club Challenge

Nice try, some really do need to learn some maths, but your attempt at fishing is amatuer at best

Ok then, a better idea, just promote North Wales Crusaders to Super League. I reckon they're ready.

Only the french could bring a self sustaining club with a sufficient fanbase. Maybe Fax or Fev at a push. Sheffield are nowhere near for me.