Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:40 pm  

tigertot wrote:

People have been for 120 years.

The game appears to be run by people who have very little idea what is happening at grass root levels and have made plans for the future of the game which is widely accepted as an experiment only... many fans do not understand or believe this will work. Time will tell but the amount of fans lost in the process could be catastrophic.

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:48 pm  

Rarebreed wrote:

The game appears to be run by people who have very little idea what is happening at grass root levels and have made plans for the future of the game which is widely accepted as an experiment only... many fans do not understand or believe this will work. Time will tell but the amount of fans lost in the process could be catastrophic.

The RFL & BARLA have been apart as long as I can remember. RL was dying because of the lack of promotion & relegation. RL has always innovated & experimented.

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:56 pm  

tigertot wrote:

The RFL & BARLA have been apart as long as I can remember. RL was dying because of the lack of promotion & relegation. RL has always innovated & experimented.

When is the promotion, 2 SL Teams with go down into Championship (tier 2) and five teams from the Championship(tier 2) will go down into Championship 1(tier 3) In my eyes that is all relegation. Can we have this conversation at the end of 2015 please.

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:06 pm  

you forgot about the 1 team to be promoted from Championship 1 (tier 3) to the championship (tier 2)

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:09 pm  

It's the race to the bottom. Welcome to Britain 2014.

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:13 pm  

debaser wrote:

It's the race to the bottom. Welcome to Britain 2014.

Tbf there are bottoms and then there are bottoms. I'd reckon some of 'em are worth a race to

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:22 pm  

Hypothetical situation, but if we used all the SL2 cap on home grown players that would be (£1m / £40K = ) 25 players that could be SL standard. So I would expect in plan B to see a major focus on home grown, keeping what we have and getting back what we can. Leon would be my favourite tho not sure of his contract status with the Dragons.

[Bulliac]

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:41 pm  

Think he may be OCC this year but, as suggested elsewhere, I think he may well get another gig in SL - and I certainly wouldn't leave somewhere like Canet before I had to..

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:57 pm  

When Leon signed for Catalan it was 2 years with option of a 3rd year.This is his 3rd year there so he will be,unless he's already agreed to stay put, OOC at end of this year.

Re: Next Season : Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:04 pm  

Rarebreed wrote:

When is the promotion, 2 SL Teams with go down into Championship (tier 2) and five teams from the Championship(tier 2) will go down into Championship 1(tier 3) In my eyes that is all relegation. Can we have this conversation at the end of 2015 please.

The details are like instructions on Ikea furniture, I get bored before half way & give up reading. I haven't worked out what happens at the end of this season, apart from 2 teams look like they will go down. I doubt it will spoil my enjoyment of RL much. Tweaking of leagues won't change the quality on offer much, it will lead to the bankruptcy of some clubs, not much change there then. Until someone cracks the media nugget RL will stumble along as it has for years.