Right I know this has been said before but I have tried to go into a bit more detail, at the present time 14 superleague clubs receive £1 million pound each and Championship clubs £90,000, why dont they look at the following have 2 superleague divisions, superleague 1 consisting of 10 team each receiving £900,000 but playing each other 3 times this giving more high profile games and extra fixtures, this will eleviate the £100,000 loss of sky money, then each of the Superleague 2 clubs receive £540,000 each with the same format of superleague 1, the money left over goes to championship clubs £400,000.

To decide what teams go in what divisions is simple at the end of the year the top 10 stay in superleague 1 and bottom 4 drop to superleague 2 with the top 6 championship clubs, the 4 clubs left in the championship stay put.
This would also allow for promotion and relegation as the difference between each divisions financial is much closer than present.

I have no doubt that someone will find flaws with what I have wrote but the principal is there, with the recent announcement of Bradford Bulls financial problems and ours last year its obvious to everyone except the 2 at the top that the present system is not working.

Like to know what people think, would it be viable or a non starter, would it improve both competions or would the fans get fed up playing the same team 3 times?

i agree with this concept and i think it is the way forward

AUP 2.4 = Thou shall not post sensible comments on this forum!!!!!

Not to mention the Red Hall hitmen, who know who the instigator of this thread is!

wayyyyyyy to simple a idea

anyway the fans of super league would sooner blow there budget on 37 year old has been and many a never was or every will be star foreign player.

The sooner tricky dicky goes the better he as overseen to biggest scandals to hit our sport in 100 years and no one questions his position in all this?

We know it makes sense but do they that matter know ,or more importantly even care that it makes sense

It sounds a little bit like the 2 division structure in cricket - no idea how that is working out, based on recent performances it does not seem to be raising the quality! I think the sport needs to even out the distribution of wealth a bit more and give everyone a chance to succeed. The current SL clubs could, if pushed, make the necessary cuts for the good of the game - but what a difference it would make to the teams in the Championship! If we are all one bih happy RL family, lets do it!

The SL teams just wouldn't see past the 'loss' of the £100K up front, and the RFL just wouldn't because the dreaded phrase Promotion and Relegation are in there, and before all you RL lovers start about P&R not working well with 4 SL clubs going or nearly going bust within the last 12 months is the licensing system working? well obviously not, by all means have standards but not obstacles.

I think it'd be better if they had two equal divisions, say an east and west division and each division had 10 teams the top four in each division go to the playoffs and the bottom team from each league get relegated. Each team in the east division would play home and away twice and vice versa and an east team would play every team from the west once and alternate home and away each year.

This would allow more teams in super league and more derby games.

Well thats quite a good idea Boston but it is a bit unfair on Widnes' and shows your Leigh bias (well acquired btw) and' it would give us at least 4 wins a season irrespective of our squad.

Just a correction, I believe it's a touch over 1.2 million each SL club receives. The Million was the old TV deal up until 2010/2011 I believe. As for your idea we did all this debate 4 years ago and it's just not the way to go, the 2 conference system is the way to go with an increased international program and obviously, far more derbys. The only way I personally forsee the 2 division system working is for the top Chp clubs to really raise standards off the field and again, I've heard all the reasons as to why you can't but ultimately, small town clubs can't just be expecting handouts when it seems that many of your fans, that's really what they're implying. Ultimately, the two conference system will be how we go within ten years imho with 18 teams in SL

Nice idea, but I can't see it ever happening as the SL turkeys would need to vote for Christmas.

So what do call the £1.2 million you lot get. Also in recent years there are quite a few of your BIG town clubs that would not be here without the "handouts". You area typical blinkered SL club supporter. Do you really think that Warrington would be the club they are without the yearly handouts from SKY and the RL.

Or Mr Moran......not forgetting the quarter of a million quid from council tax payers in Warrington