I think the point been is that the super league is becoming like the premeir league in the fact that the lower clubs will never compete with the those at the top (both on and off the field). And the league is pretty much the same year in year out with the clubs finishing in similar positions. Meaning games become more predictable aswell clubs league positions. Thats my understanding of it anyway.

I think my 3 tier would be.

1. Leeds, Warrington, Wigan, Saints (always up there recent history).
2. Bradford, Hull fc, Hull kr, Huddersfield, Catalan.
3. Wakefield, Salford, London, Widnes, Castleford.

Not taking into account runs of form or injury problems.

The games most entertaining for myself to watch are when the clubs compete with other clubs within their tiers.

Yes, but what goes around comes around. In the early years of SL Warrington similarly lost Paul Sculthorpe and Iestyn Harris to richer teams - that certainly knocked Wire for six. Success is to some extent always cyclical. In the 1970s Salford were a real force and there is no one thing you can point to that saw them slip from Champions to strugglers over the next thirty years. Check out Bradford Bulls' more recent history for another example.

I think until the RFL owns all the teams and all the teams are run for the good of the game, the game won't grow, and won't be even.

This would be the same Huddersfield who signed promising Bulls academy products Patrick and Wardle? Who have a very wealthy owner, who I suspect if there was no cap would be sorely tempted to spend rather more to buy success?

Do Bradford spend to the cap? It's not a dig, it's just a general question.

With a third of the season gone, it looks like the current top tier of the Super League (and therefore the often quoted ‘Big 4’) are Hull FC, Warrington, Huddersfield and Catalan Dragons

That’s the problem with the Super League, all too predictable