Just watched the Swinton game on Sky with a friend who isn't too familar with rugby league, and he was confused as to what league this game was being played in as the commentary kept switching from 'this Championship game' and 'top of Championship One'.

He asked is there a Championship Two? I said no, and he simply replied its a silly name to give the bottom profesional league. He has a point, to newbies its a bit weird turning upto a Championship One game wrongly thinking the 'One' signifies the top championship league.

Refer back to National League One & National League Two



by the way he actually enjoyed the game

Don't see the problem myself. If that confused him gawd knows how he gets on with football.
He enjoyed the game. That's what matters.

Well now we no longer have a foreign team we could revert back to the ' National ' leagues , it is slightly confusing , with THE Championship and then Championship 1

But who really cares , it was big Nige who came up with it , then again he came up with the ' Blue Sox ' Monika , his talents knows no boundaries

I'm not Monica, but I liked it.

It was a rather silly naming arrangement from the starone championship is the top. Championship 1....thats not under Championship. It's technically the same. Why does the 1 demote it? Why does its absence promote the second tier? Why is it a different format?

I don't know. I don't know what it achieves, I don't know why they came up with it. Change it back to NL1 and 2 or change it to Championship 1 and 2. Do something logical!

LOGICAL? Were talking the RFL here. Since when does logic come into their vocabulary??

Should go Aussie style and call them "cups". eg, Jim Beam Cup.

Get two sponsors and name the leagues after them.

Ikea Cup
Superdrug Cup

You reckon we could pull in sponsors that good ?

Netto Cup
Oxfam Cup

I like your thinking but it's a bit too high market for mine.

Market stalls, Chip shops, school tuck shops. We've got to be realistic.

Betty's Launderama Cup
Pete the Plumber Cup

The Withenhoe Family Cup
The Cresley Avenue Collective League

Now Widnes "The Franchise" (seriously we should just change our name to that) are leaving, these are preferable.

I'll throw in a fiver sponsorship. The Dalton Cup.

A fiver max. I'm not negotiating.

If we can't name any particular competition we should just name it after Animal Farm, the loveable romp about anthromorphic characters who start their own farm in equality, fairness and justice for all, only for some pigs to make the whole thing go pear shaped. They end up sacrificing a work horse to a glue factory and lying to the other animals about their decreased rations, the swine.

A Fiver!! Move over Ken Davey.

That's pounds not pence too. Tempting offer.

The current sponsor is bigger than Superdrug and probably bigger than Ikea in the UK.

I like the sound of the co-operative championship,i just hope they stick around now sky have pulled the plug.The same goes for northern Rail.

you cant use netto.
It wont be long before they are sponsoring bradford and Huddersfield....there slogans going to be....Cheap and cheerful...thats us.

Super League
Championship 1
Championship 2
[Championship 3

Simple.

The two should be merged back into one division. I don't think that they should have been split in the first place.

But will shortly be ending it's association because it is tied in to the SKY deal , no tv coverage on SKY , no Co oP sponsorship

I said from the start that the names are stupid. And they are. And what makes it worse is that they actually had a survey to name the leagues and this wasn't one of them.

IIRC, the choices were:
NL1 & NL2
Championship & NL1
Championship 1 & Championship 2

Seems like they just decided to mash two of them together. If that was one of the choices no-one would have picked it.

So who at the RFL has a history of picking names that nobody wants ?

Bleu Sox anybody ?

I've said it for ages but what the Championships need is somebody to be appointed by the RFL with a specific remit to be the CEO for those leagues. Its obvious that Lewis and Wood are not interested, and so if we had somebody who's 'day job' it was to manage the affairs of the Championships we'd probably see an improvement. Let Lewis and Wood concentrate on the big ticket issues of SL and Internationals, let this person concentrate solely on the Championships.

As long as they have a budget to work with Derwent then yes , that is exactly what is needed