I think there will be some hard-nosed decisions made at the end of this season.
With the economy in this state I wouldn't be surprised to see Harlequins go as they just cannot sustain SL with those attendances. Whichever way you look at it the London experiment has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds to prop up and is still a failure.
Similarly, I wonder if there will be a "cull" at the bottom end of the professional game - the likes of Gateshead, Blackpool and London Skolars are little better than amateur teams (and that is an insult to some of the BARLA clubs !). I reckon they'd be better placed in the summer conference ie outside the professional ranks.
Just my thoughts of course