Ok great, I think we agree - but also if we are in the west conference or whatever it will be called, do you not think the standard would be somewhat less than the Yorkers league ?
and whenever some convoluted plan is made for playoffs I feel we would not be as good as the other sideI just think it will end up being a farce, which sums up the RFL
a complete joke
But what do you suggest is the best / least worst option mate?
If it is (as looks likely) just one twenty-one team league below SL, what would your fixture formula be?
It would appear that you're not the East / West's biggest fan, even though your mob would prob be one of the top dogs, if it transpired that way.
Play all other teams, but only once, meaning (say) you'd host us, but you wouldn't come to our gaff?
Three lots of seven? I shudder to think how that would evolve!
The more I think of it, the more convinced I become that it'll be the East / West version, but..............
I've been wrong many times in the past, so...................
What's your, and your fellow Chemics' view(s) on next term's set-up please?
Spelly.
Spelly, read my first post !
Reading that Big Nige is suggesting in his review that SL may grow to 16, 18 or 20 in the future. Is that to ensure that Bradford have a further 3 shots at getting into SL if they fail in 2026? Bet the SL drawbridge will be pulled up once Bradford are in it.
Having said that, I do agree that the aim should be to ensure that teams in the professional/semi-professional game meet minimum standards, including financial sustainability, to achieve SL status. Not sure that having a rich benefactor to meet annual losses of up to £2m in the short-term, can be described as financially sustainable in the longer term.
1) Reading that Big Nige is suggesting in his review that SL may grow to 16, 18 or 20 in the future. Is that to ensure that Bradford have a further 3 shots at getting into SL if they fail in 2026? Bet the SL drawbridge will be pulled up once Bradford are in it.
2) Having said that, I do agree that the aim should be to ensure that teams in the professional/semi-professional game meet minimum standards, including financial sustainability, to achieve SL status. Not sure that having a rich benefactor to meet annual losses of up to £2m in the short-term, can be described as financially sustainable in the longer term.
1) I can't see the team whose financial history is not without blemish, and playing out of a ground that's seen better days, missing out on (wrong word) "promotion" to be one of the fourteen in our game's top tier next term. Fair? A lot will depend on if you (don't) have a BD postcode for an opinion on that one!
2) Minimum standards? No argument there mate! Rich benefactors? Good call! But conversely, it doesn't seem to have done any harm to the likes of Leythers and Wakey, whose money men are also dyed-in-the-wool fans. From a totally selfish point of view, I wish we had one (or a dozen!) at the Lions!
Spelly.
Have one league.
The 10 teams from west/east play each other home and away=18 fixtures.
Play 5 at home and 5 away against all other region teams = 10 fixtures.
14 home games, top 8 play-off.
That way the teams get their derbies (not that we have a proper one) plus still get opportunity to go to Batley or play at home v Featherstone/Halifax....
Yes there would be an imbalance but it's easier than conferences of 7.....
There will always be big scores- think back to the NFP- the likes of Chorley and (ironically) York.
interesting, one assumes you have written salfraud off then as basing it on 20 teams ?
but you make a decent idea there - teams need 14 home games a season guaranteed to actually put together a budget
but the strength of each division becomes into question, as I have said previously we would end up in a division with 6 teams from the lower division, which will surely dilute the standard of games and crowds
Minimum standards? No argument there mate! Rich benefactors? Good call! But conversely, it doesn't seem to have done any harm to the likes of Leythers and Wakey, whose money men are also dyed-in-the-wool fans. From a totally selfish point of view, I wish we had one (or a dozen!) at the Lions!
Spelly.
Totally agree and I amongst most, if not all, on here would welcome a rich benefactor to pump unlimited amounts of money into the Club for years to come. The question that I would ask, whilst basking in the success on the pitch, is "What happens when the money dries up", or does being a millionaire bring eternal life.
How can a club be financially sustainable if it has to be bailed out to the tune of £2m very year to stay afloat?
Spot on - watch what will happen to shuddesfield soon
Can't see Toulouse being involved anyway...either they will be in SL or play in France?
Toulouse and York are in on merit, salfraud and shudder out
await the final 3 ……
not any vikings for sure
Listening to McManus on the BBC and it seems that funding of new clubs in SL and/or outside SL is still undecided so the whole thing could be a poisoned chalice!
Best keep your hand on your halfpenny for now!
Watching SL this weekend, I don't know where they're going to find decent SL-quality players for another 2 teams. Watching Huddersfield, Catalans, Castleford and the soon-to-be-defunct Salford, they're all absolute garbage. That's 4 out of 12 that are getting murdered most weeks. How can adding more teams/cannon fodder improve the situation?
IMO, McManus must have been hallucinating. Never heard such piffle since the last time i spoke to a Wire fan
Also cast your mind back - the IMG ratings decided the teams for SL - salfraud qualified and then asked for an upfront payment for their share of sky money (alarm bells ringing ?)
since then they have been an absolute sham , so in my mind the IMG ratings are an absolute waste of the games money