RFL confirm ‪#‎SuperLeague‬ will go to 12 teams from 2015. Promotion/relegation or league split still to be decided. ‪#‎RugbyLeague‬

so which clubs will bankrupt themselves trying not to finish in the bottom 2!?

If a league split comes in, I may very well be done with RL.

splitting the leagues into 3 groups of 8 will lose fans not gain them

More competitive games?

for the top 8 in superleague maybe

unless the championship is full time they wont be close games against the 4 SL teams who don't make the 8

Would love to see AP try and shift 10k season tickets for games against Batley, Fev, Eagles etc...

same here, and the subsequent reduction in season pass sales will kill the sport off.

Imagine we finish 9th in the regular table and end up playing Dewsbury, Workington etc with all tickets pay on the day...the crowd would be dire, and I wouldn't even know where the begin explaining what the fixture was about to a non-RL fan.

Bloke from the RFL - rimmer? - said on boots n all last week that the split scheme was gaining popularity. I can see why. Top 6 or so clubs are pretty safe and bottom 4 have no chance so it only leaves the other 4 clubs who lie in the uncertain pool. Stupid idea IMO but clubs will vote for their own self interests

I seriously hope it stays as two leagues of 12. The 3-split-e sounds truly awful and embarrassing.

11 home games not enough though

I really do get more and more 'meh' with RL with each passing year.

Apparently in the paper (The Sun), more then half of the current Super League are in favour of the 3 leagues.

How the RL can expect fans to shell out for season passes not knowing which teams their club are going to be playing at the back end of the season just shows how well they dream up these schemes.

Im pretty sure the RFL & all the clubs will have thought about this and will come up with a solution. Afterall this is apparently the format most clubs have voted for & I dont believe they would have done so without taking everything into account. Especially ticket sales which makes up a large amount of the income.

Announced down to 12 teams eh. Merger anyone?

All the clubs or just the bigger ones.

Not all the clubs, just most of them. If the 'smaller' clubs didn't have a say I'm sure we would of heard about it in the media.

Don't think theres any point tbh.

Both clubs spending close to full cap and most of the Hull born players couldn't make a top 8 team between them.

If theres P&R both sides will stay as they are.

same, the only thing that remains constat is my confusion as to whether the RFL either A) are completely cluesless, or B) don't give a shiite about the fans, or maybe even C) both

Sooo Many questions need answering.

I thought when they asked the playes over 90% of them said that they did not like the split of thee 8's.

Ive not seen any fan of the sport have anything positive to say about it either. Surely that is the main factor, the fans.

If the stupid "split 1/2 way" idea comes you wouldn't know at the start of the season ....

3 tier split = my money in my pocket and walking away from the game i love as it's run by rank amateurs

As I understand it, it was the clubs that voted for it. The were given the two options and this is what the majority of clubs voted for.

Thinking about it I would do the same. It's a awful proposal and the fans should have the major say on how the new set up should be run. Maybe the RFL should have a referendum so the supporters of the game can have a vote, before the clowns at Red Hall kill the game all together?.