ok league leaders shield winners....

I get where you are coming from but it's the financial aspect of no to limited home games that wouldn't work. Good teams would financially benefit every year.

Doing this could financially kill a club like ours and others, if we finished 8th, and at a time where there are clubs in lots of financial uncertainty do we really want to be adding others?. Equally, the team in 9th would end up with more home games and would therefore gain more money. The theory of awarding higher placed teams is right, but I dont agree with this suggestion unfortunately.

On the topic f league structure etc though, I think we need to have some sort of promotion and relegation to keep the jeopardy of sport alive and therefore keep the interest there. I'm sure we all remember the pointless dead-rubbers that occured towards the end of the franchising system seasons. There also needs to be some reward and an aim for teams in the lower leagues. We need investors in this sport, and who is going to invest money in to a team like Leigh or Toronto for example, if you have no hope of reaching Super League for a franchise system period of lets say 5 years, as was mentioned above.

My suggestion would be that we employ a system similar to Scottish football. the bottom team from SL would be relegated and the top team from the Championship would be promoted. The team finishing second-bottom in SL would then join the play-off system with the championship teams for the remaining place in SL. There could be a simple system of second-bottom SL team vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd, with the winner of each game playing in a 'grand final' for promotion to SL. However the play-off system could be expanded (more championship clubs) dependent on the number of teams in each league (which I think should be increased to 14) This would reward your first place team and equally a team like Widnes this year, or WT of 2015 who are/ were both appalling, should suffer the consequences. It also gives the remaining teams in the championship something to aim for.

My issue with a straight one up one down system is that, when you have a team like toronto who just eliminate all teams in their way, that this is going to discourage spending by other clubs. Logically, why would a team like Featherstone lets say, spend all their money trying to compete when they could have a less expensive season and then go for it the following year.

Feel free to rip my ideas to shreds haha

your sounding like Rimmer

That to me is just a rehash of the same thing.
The problem isn't that teams can't get promotion, it's that sponsors and season ticket holders don't know what they are paying for at the beginning of the year.

I don't mind your concept in fact I quite like it but it doesn't solve the problem.