Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:24 am  

woolly07 wrote:

A post earlier got me thinking. What if a team goes into admin just before they drop into the championship play-off’s. They get 6 points deducted which means they are in the SL bottom 4. Are they still 6 points worse off at the start of the play offs or are they then wiped off?.

That is a very good point,

if that was the case and they were wiped, then surely it would work if a club was already resigned to the bottom 4 and purposely went into administration (clearing off large debts ahead of the following season) knowing that they start back on 0 with everyone else.

Maybe they should bring in a new ruling if that happens like automatic relegation for admin

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 1:50 pm  

I haven't been through the whole trail... but does anyone know how it is decided where the games are played??

all SL1 teams at home??

or like now... it will be who ever finished highest?

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:03 pm  

melly88 wrote:

I haven't been through the whole trail... but does anyone know how it is decided where the games are played??

all SL1 teams at home??

or like now... it will be who ever finished highest?

if you mean in the "Quailfiying Super 8" super dooper playoff seris for the million £ match (TM);

Top 2 championship teams get 4 home games 3 away,
9th and 10th place SL teams get 4 home games 3 away,

11th and 12th place SL teams get 3 home 4 away,
3rd and 4th in the championship get 3 home 4 away.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:05 pm  

I am looking forward to the super 8's, particularly the promotion/relegation ones, four teams used to losing and probably with loads of players injured taking on four that are used to winning and in all probability a lot more of the squad fully fit, with the incentive of being underdogs and promotion.

Ironically a team like Wigan could have a squad of 25 players of international standard whether full or academy and stay within the £1m cap @£40k per home developed player.

There will be teething problems, but they have got something right by calling it the Super 8s and by incentivising the use of home developed players.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:11 pm  

martinwildbull wrote:

I am looking forward to the super 8's, particularly the promotion/relegation ones, four teams used to losing and probably with loads of players injured taking on four that are used to winning and in all probability a lot more of the squad fully fit, with the incentive of being underdogs and promotion.

Hmm, I'm not sure I see it that way. Injuries are completely random so I'm not following your logic on that one, and in any case I am fully expecting the bottom SL clubs to be out of the running for the top 8 with several of the initial 23 games still to play.
They'll just rest their key players, get them fit and ready for the qualifiers and then smash the champ teams with their £1.8m priced squad.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:16 pm  

I doubt very much that Wakey and a few others will be spending £1.8m on the gates they get. We can "officially" spend £1m. They underspend by a few 100k and we do some imaginative accounting with partners working in the shop and a few supermarket openings and we may be able to spend a few 100k over. We are not too far apart then and it might just come down to coaching quality and injuries. I do believe the bottom SL clubs could be vulnerable to Championship clubs that are playing well.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:53 pm  

woolly07 wrote:

I doubt very much that Wakey and a few others will be spending £1.8m on the gates they get. We can "officially" spend £1m. They underspend by a few 100k and we do some imaginative accounting with partners working in the shop and a few supermarket openings and we may be able to spend a few 100k over. We are not too far apart then and it might just come down to coaching quality and injuries. I do believe the bottom SL clubs could be vulnerable to Championship clubs that are playing well.

I like that idea

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:03 pm  

Micheal Carter has said Wakefield can run on the full salary cap with gates of 6,300. It remains to be seen whether it can be achieved without cheap season tickets, but they aren't a million miles away from it.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:05 pm  

How much funding will SL clubs be receiving next year? I thought they were getting £1.8m each, but perhaps not if wakey need those crowd figures in order to spend the full cap.

Re: How does promotion work in Championship? : Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:59 pm  

MashPotatoes wrote:

Micheal Carter has said Wakefield can run on the full salary cap with gates of 6,300. It remains to be seen whether it can be achieved without cheap season tickets, but they aren't a million miles away from it.

Against Leeds they were a long way from that.What was it against Widnes recent 4 something,think they could be in danger of losing 12 points next season but still been ok