Here's a radical idea



Ten Team Super League of:
Leeds, Wigan, St Helens, Wire, Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, London Rams, Crusaders and Catalans

Each Plays each other twice, and even as someone mentioned a draft system to even it out a bit. Top 5 Play-Offs

Twelve Team Super League Championship of
Halifax, Hull KR, Salford, Castleford, Wakefield, Fetherstone Rovers, Leigh, Barrow, Widnes, Toulouse, AS Carcassonne, Sheffield

Below that;

RFL Championship - Similar to the Championship in RFU, Semi-Pro, promotion to Super League Championship. Subject to Approval.

Each Play each other twice. Top 5 Play-Offs.

1 Up, 1 Down

[uCups[/u

Challenge Cup - Knockout Cup. Final at Wembley, all French Teams compete. Have Double Header at Elland Road/COM/Bramall Lane for Challenge Cup Semi Finals

Yorkshire/Lancashire Cup - County Cups, Yorkshire will include France and London, Lancashire Wales and Cumrbia (France switches) Only Super League and RFL Championship Teams entered.

Todd Cup - Winner of Yorkshire and Lancashire Cups Compete. Like All-Ireland.

[uOther Games[/u

War of the Roses - Lancashire (all who played at start of season for Lancashire Cup Clubs) vs Yorkshire (All who played for Yorkshire Cup Clubs) free for all season ticket holders. Game 1 at DW Stadium, Game 2 at Galpharm, Game 3 at Rotating Between Warrington and Bradford.

Unicorns vs England - Unicorns (a Team Comprised of Foreign Super League Players) take on England at the end of the season as a warm up to the Tests/WC/5N.

[uInternational Level[/u

Annual 'Heritage Trophy' between England and France to bolster both countries. New Zealand, Australia, France and England tour each other on a rotational basis, so to get annual games - offer rights to ITV and BBC. Todd Cup to be offered to ITV and BBC.

Five Nations to be Competed Every Four Years, World Cup Every 4 Years, Tours to Fill the Gap.

Total bollox , if you dont even know who exactly McManus and Moran even are at their clubs , let alone HKR running at losses of at least 500 K per season you really dont understand the problems , let alone the lunatic assumption that raising the salary cap would be a good idea when 80 % of clubs cant even afford to break even with the level it currently is at

Start off with kids rugby. It should be played in summer to try and attract more kids to play the game as obviously kids would rather play sport in warm weather rather than in the middle of the freezing winter. A scoring system should be devised to encourage teams to play proper attacking rugby rather than just give the ball to the biggest kid and let him run over everybody all the time. Also coaches should be encouraged to rotate who plays in the key positions (half backs, full back, hooker etc) to allow every kid to gain experience of these positions, and those who over a period of time show the most aptitude for these positions should then get specialist coaching.

There should be salary cap concessions for players who come up through the ranks and into the first team of pro clubs and for each of these players that go on to play for England clubs should be paid a bonus. All England players, whether it's the full national side or academy should regularly meet up throughout the year go through their attacking/defense patterns and tactics for the end of year internationals, so when it is time the players will know what to do off by heart.

I would keep Super League at fourteen clubs, but bring back the five team playoffs which would hopefully increase the intensity throughout the season as teams wouldn't be able to afford to lose as many games as they can now. I would give the Magic Weekend a chance to develop into a big event to start the season with, but if after five years it still hasn't really taken off then I would use it for the quarter finals of the challenge cup. The playoffs should be marketed to death, with the view that 20,000+ paying £10 would look better than 10,000+ paying £20. Where possible games will be taken to football grounds that can hold over 20,000. I would even have Hull KR playing their home playoff games at the KC because of the scope for bigger crowds.

A live Super League game would be broadcast on terrestrial TV each week and have the regular season and playoffs as different packages. The Grand Final would be shown on the saturday night in full on terrestrial TV.

The championship should be split into east and west divisions with eight teams in each one and each team playing the teams in their division twice and from the other division once. The top four would playoff to determine the division winners who would then play each other in the Grand Final.

The challenge cup would be moved back to the beginning of the year with the final in May, as IMO August should be about the race for the playoffs and having the CC final there is a distraction.

When the licenses are announced clubs from the championship who win a license will be given a year to put together a competitive team, rather than go into SL the following year and having to spend the off season scrambling around trying to put a team together.

Exposure and misinformation.

-Bring back P&R.
-Cap the overseas players down to three for every team.
-No Dual Registration
-Expansion can only be a god thing, but it has to be done correctly. Needs to be done slowly while making sure the current Leagues and Team are in a good financial situation and drawing crowds. No automatic promotion or introduction into Super League.
-Someway that could create a draft like in the NFL, teams have to bring new players through and create future talent.
-Yorkshire V Lancashire, much more emphasis surrounding that. 3 matches like they have in the SOO.

I've been away for a few days and needed a laugh

Thank you.