No chance will the RFL send gateshead down, that would cripple them further financially. I dont understand why they dont combine champ 1 and the championship. More games more income etc etc!!

Perhaps a 'Magic Weekend' could provide a compromise?

Would provide clubs with increased revenue, on a weekend without fixtures due to reduced number of clubs, and would also provide another showpiece event for RL.

If the right weekend was chosen I'm sure there would be plenty of interest from SL fans and even non-RL fans in attendance, and it could be another good weekender for you lot.

Could even stick it in an 'expansion' area (eg. Gateshead) or a potential expansion area (eg. Coventry) to keep the RFL happy?!

And nowt to play for for years on end for the past half of the table. In fact, for many of the reasons why people objected to no relegation from Super League.

So...the Champ club are only allowed to play each other twice...home and away. But for Superleague, they play each other numerous times depending on the weather, Stevo's mood and what makes a good telly program.

The number of clubs in a division is irrelvent...its the number of meaningful fixutres where the outcome is uncertain that matters.

we dont want a single division.....i remember the one sided games fo the 80's and 90s far too well.

I thought if a club had been shut down and a new company started, it was automatic relegation to the bottom tier. Didn't they bring that in after the London Broncos debacle... Or was it dependant on whether you're in Lancashire/Yorkshire or not?

Yes though at the moment they use the NRC for extra games, could just as easily be extra fixtures. SL they only play one team thrice now at Magic Weekend.

They need a franchise division of about 12-14 semi-pro teams and find a suitable league for the rest. Having 2-up-2-down and allowing the likes of Doncaster, Oldham and Gateshead in the Championship is reckless and unstable, whereas allowing the likes of Leigh, Dewsbury and York the chance to grow without yoyoing.

i would have thought so too....i.e. going into administration is one thing...liquidating and reforming is something else.
i guess we just have to accept the RFL have rules, but will do what they think is best for them and BSkyB anyhoo.

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Teams need more games, it's as simple as that, they need a structure that will provide it. The RFL are daft if they don't do something.

And you expect something else

How much longer do we accept them for though, until there are about 6 clubs left below SL?

yep...and they all be in Leeds and Wales

And France, of course?!

If the RFL deduct 9 points off Gateshead from last season then they will be relegated and we must be reinstated in Championship. We all talk about rules, and the rules state that 2 teams will be relegated from Championship to Championship One. If the RFL fail to reinstate us then I would say we have a strong case to take to arbitration.

Taken from the RFL website, please read paragraph 5.

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Your right ,if Gateshead go down plus we stay down then thats 3 teams ,so they either put us back or they are BREAKING THOSE DAMN RULES .

I think them rules are to do with the league season though surely. If it was in the rules that 2 go down, by results on the field or if a club goes under etc it would say so.


All we can hope for is if RFL see Leigh being in C1 as a pointless excercise considering we would be spending a lot more than the rest. I don't subscribe to us having a cr@p season myself, as I thought it was a poor one but not enough to be relegated. Its the 2 out of 10 clubs rule that has spoiled the season gone. I just hope they change it for common sense sake

There were no ifs and buts though apart from Toulouse so if we go off word for word then they must reinstate 1 club , i'm sure a lawyer would very easily tear it to shreds.

Agree about season but i'm sure lots wont /dont.

Gateshead would not have been relegated. The old Gateshead club would have gone out of business and the new one would have applied for membership of the RFL and applied for a place in Championship 1. The RFL would not have broken any rules as only Donny and Leigh have been relegated and the "new" Gateshead club will be welcomed into a larger Championship 1. We are where we are until the Chairmen of Championship clubs realise how much revenue they will lose with a reduced fixture list. By then it will be too late to do anything about it.

My point is, if the RFL deduct 9 points from Gateshead and then say they're relegated because they had less points than us then they have to reinstate us. If, as I expect them to, they tell Gateshead they have to start afresh in C1 because they are effectively a new club then that's a different matter in which case they'll start next season on -9.

Dublin have gone straight into the Championship, announcement to follow.

Are they the Dumbasses or the Dodos .... the RFL need to know to get the fixture list out on time.

We have enough of each already in Rugby League!

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Ive heard Dublin have completed the signing of half backs
Bill n Ben and prop Pedro the Bandit ex Four Feather Falls Star

Now you really are showing your age

Ermmmmm I could do with some magic feathers

Its in the Reporter about Gateshead and Leigh but Mr Hunt has put Neil Kelly as head coach

just shows what interest he has in Leigh Centurions.