Which is what we have been telling you for bloody years you muppet, so ALL you can do is improve everybody, and hope some improve enough to create genuine competition for SL places

I don't know who you think is going to 'improve everybody' other than the clubs themselves, but competition is not going to come from clubs like Leigh and Featherstone no matter how much money you want the RFL to throw at them.

You dont mention the contradiction, you stated that on field shouldnt decide who is in SL, then say its the most important thing



Make your mind up

I meant current SL clubs and their fans



Yes but people dont pay 20 quid to watch amatuers do they?

Which club do you follow through the turnstiles Headhunter?

So were f***ed then arent we



Just watched Crystal Palace play Sunderland at a packed to the rafters Selhurst Park ,the Eagles fans didnt stop singing all match



The romance of sport

It isn't a contradiction. SL should be full of teams that are capable of being competitive. Promoted teams are unlikely to be competitive, they have to assemble a squad from scratch at short notice. Clubs with extremely saturated catchment areas are also lot less likely to be competitive, which is what we're talking about with the majority of Championship clubs. Promoting the winning Championship team each years is far more likely to result in uncompetitive teams than a sustainable system. It also means that the Championship will have one dominant club every year.

Crystal Palace shouldn't be in the Premier League. They're too small. They'll never win it and they'll never be as big as Man U.



That's the mantra round here isn't it?

But football is totally different because of the nature of the sport, and because Crystal Palace are a full-time operation that are bigger than most if not all of the SL clubs. They are portrayed as minnows because football is so dominant but the reality is that their turnover is likely to be considerably more than all the RL Championship teams put together. It's not a relevant example at all. The equivalent in football would be like promotion and relegation between the Championship and the Blue Square Conference.



And yeah, clubs like Leigh aren't ever going to be competitive in Super League. They were promoted and got absolutely smashed every week, and that's probably the best they can hope for in terms of their ceiling. If you think otherwise then you're kidding yourself.

So once again, where's your options?



And why is what youve put at the end a problem ?

Their turnover will likely be more than the whole of SL, never mind the Championships, and why is that?



Because football lives on raw emotion, because that is what sport is based on, lose that, and your sport is dead

Wakefield, Hull KR, Castleford, London, and recently Salford are or have been in financial trouble. Huddersfield, leeds, Widnes, Wigan, Hull and Warrington rely on cashed up investors. Don't you think it's time the game woke up and realised that it cannot compete as a fully professional organisation. The game might just have to downsize to survive.



As such, clubs such as Featherstone, Halifax and Leigh might be the norm for SL not the exception.



The SL is in serious danger of implosion. Unless the big boys agree to some form of revenue sharing and that's not even remotely a possibility, then there must be some lowering of standards to ensure survival.