Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:14 pm  

I can understand the thinking moving away from the 8's, but is the best we can come up with? Loop fixtures? what a load of baloney.

What an ideal time to go to 14 teams, it didn't have to be toulouse & toronto - but the top 6 from the middle 8's move up. If that becomes London then so be it, or all 3 with widnes dropping out.

This in essence will kill the championship competetion, and if we have teams ready to take the next step up we won't have have the foresight to increase the league size. Greed, incompetence or a mixture of both really have ensured we have the 12 teams at the top table and not much changing year on year. We needed to be bold, look to grow the game and our audience. Poor decision to stay at 12 imo

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:23 pm  

mean_machine wrote:

I can understand the thinking moving away from the 8's, but is the best we can come up with? Loop fixtures? what a load of baloney.

What an ideal time to go to 14 teams, it didn't have to be toulouse & toronto - but the top 6 from the middle 8's move up. If that becomes London then so be it, or all 3 with widnes dropping out.

This in essence will kill the championship competetion, and if we have teams ready to take the next step up we won't have have the foresight to increase the league size. Greed, incompetence or a mixture of both really have ensured we have the 12 teams at the top table and not much changing year on year. We needed to be bold, look to grow the game and our audience. Poor decision to stay at 12 imo

Very well said

The reluctance to go to 14 clubs perhaps just shows that, despite the hype and rhetoric, how little interest there is from Sky to include Toronto and Toulouse in SL.
The sad thing is that Toronto will get there anyway, assuming that their backers dont get cold feet and/or run out of money.

Perhaps some of their cheer leaders can explain why their inclusion isnt worthy of re negotiating the current TV deal.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:27 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Very well said

Said similar earlier but no so eloquently as i was in outrage mode. perfect chance to increase to 14 and have straight home away fixtures with a very viable competitive championship pushing for promotion.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:30 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Very well said

The reluctance to go to 14 clubs perhaps just shows that, despite the hype and rhetoric, how little interest there is from Sky to include Toronto and Toulouse in SL.
The sad thing is that Toronto will get there anyway, assuming that their backers dont get cold feet and/or run out of money.

Perhaps some of their cheer leaders can explain why their inclusion isnt worthy of re negotiating the current TV deal.

There arent enough full time clubs that arent a whisker away from going bust to form a 14 league team thats why. Whats the point in forming a 14 league team when a number of those teams will probably go bust within a couple of years

Regards

King james

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:39 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Cheers Grimmy,i'll try that.

sorry for late reply - thanks to Grimmy for stepping into the breach. Yes its a little routine these type of forums use to build links into the thread - part of the language if you will. You can just post the url direct but once upon a time it was frowned upon on here.

incidentally you can also use similar commands to change the size of thread text, colours, add images plus a few other things - just search for bb code on google (bulletin board code)

In the distant past these boards were full of interesting and funny (and a lot of dull and unfunny) posts using such codes

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:42 pm  

the artist wrote:

sorry for late reply - thanks to Grimmy for stepping into the breach. Yes its a little routine these type of forums use to build links into the thread - part of the language if you will. You can just post the url direct but once upon a time it was frowned upon on here.

incidentally you can also use similar commands to change the size of thread text, colours, add images plus a few other things - just search for bb code on google (bulletin board code)

In the distant past these boards were full of interesting and funny (and a lot of dull and unfunny) posts using such codes

Thanks for that,much appreciated.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:45 pm  

14 team franchised league with a requirement to have reserves, youth tied into community clubs, decent ground..........

P&R is bust and boom. If we must have it protect the promoted side for 12 months to allow them to build.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:47 pm  

does anyone know, or would like to hazard a guess as to how the last 6 fixtures of the regular season will be decided - last years finishing positions? local derbies to improves attendances? random draw?. will these all be decided before the season kicks off? a system where the last few fixtures are arrived on halfway through the season has proved to be detrimental to fans - aka the super 8s.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:03 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

14 team franchised league with a requirement to have reserves, youth tied into community clubs, decent ground..........

P&R is bust and boom. If we must have it protect the promoted side for 12 months to allow them to build.

That i agree with.

Re: New structure for 2019 : Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:06 pm  

So, it's all been 'sorted out'. Not for some it isn't.
What about marketing, profile, youth development, reserve grades, a coherent international strategy, future finances, future tv deals - in fact any thing that improves the future of the game at all.