At last

I don't have a calculator. As I said earlier, I really don't know how this problem could be overcome. However, I don't hear much stuff that's inaccurate. Let's just see what happens.

You don't know , because it can't

as i said, I was just thinking about the magic weekend, not the season as a whole.

No you weren't ' thinking ' , that was the problem

Starbug, you don't seem to be getting what I'm saying. I completely understand the difficulties of 15 teams. However, I'm saying that the reliability of the information leads me to believe that it may be possible.

What is possible , 15 teams ? , yes no problem at all

15 Teams and play an odd number of matches ? , not possible , don't book your hotel for Cardiff yet

But if they aren't going to drop anybody down , can you take Toulouse as well ?

Would 16 teams be more possible then 15

Halifax possibly!

The education system in Cas needs a serious overhauling

Agreed, have you seen the CVA score for Castleford schools?

They'd better not , who the hell would we have to play ?

Toulouse add nothing , but take out a quarter of a million a season

15 teams means 7 Super League game at Magic Weekend, and the one team who have their bye that weekend play the WCC as headline game instead. Make sure the bye team are last year's champions and what's the problem?

The shock face was sarcasm!!!!


God knows what will happen. But 30 games a season :\ plus cup, internationals. Already complaints about the hectic easter period. Not sure its overly likely yet.


I still think 14 will happen next season. Who the 14 will be though, I have no idea.

The problem is that the WCC team get two points for nothing.

Are you from Castleford ?

You don't have much of an imagination then do you , the 14 will be Widnes and the rest of current SL clubs except either you or Wakey

You tell him

I see no way Wakefield could regain their licence ahead of us (administration just 1 of many "issues"icon_wink.gif.

I don't know, I just think that something may change, wouldn't bank on Crusaders being dead certs if they've got financial issues too.

In that case have fifteen Magic weekends. Sorted.

Now that is ' thinking outside the box '

i don't understand why a 15 team league doesn't work. 15 teams = 30 rounds of rugby with each team getting two byes a season. effectively the same as a 16 team league, but twice a season you will play no one. the only team that does not get two byes is the team playing in the WCC. they would give up 1 bye to take part in the WCC match, which could be played as the headline at MM giving 8 matches in total for that round. As the team playing in the WCC plays 1 extra game anyway they don't lose anything. every team gets two weeks rest per season. seems ok to me unless i am missing something.

The number of teams in super league needs to go down not up.

IMO we only have 9 clubs fit for the premier RL competition... on of them is in the championship.

Wigan
Leeds
Warrington
St Helens
Hull
Hudds
Catalans
Hull
Bradford
Widnes

Cas and Hull KR will be on the list once they have sorted their facilities out. Salford will be on the list if they sort their crowds out along with Crusaders and Quins. Wakey need to sort both.

If we are being really harsh then only the top 7 on that list are good enough for the top league.

Lets face it, we need a smaller competition with every single team spending to the full cap if we are going to see super league flourish under this franchise system because as it stands there is no real competition between most of the teams throughout a full season. There is also no competition to get into super league, we all knew Widnes were coming in this time. Imagine if 5 clubs from the championship were battling it out, they would have to be thorough.

what rubbish!

increasing the pinncle of the game is the only way to generate new interest! Lets work towards getting 50 teams playing at the top level of the game...

reducing the comp with eventually result in RL dissapearing up its own - ever decreasing - backside!

Somebody else can tell you I've had enough trying to explain simple maths to people