Just seen this on twitter : perhaps this is closer to happening than people think !!!! @andywiz: two-tier super league, 10 in each with prom and rel, gaining momentum. hurray. t.co/0SD4YDqK

Just seen this on twitter : perhaps this is closer to happening than people think !!!! @andywiz: two-tier super league, 10 in each with prom and rel, gaining momentum. hurray. t.co/0SD4YDqK

I think this could work, though there are a few problems. Based on League position (not play off finishes) it would look as follows-

[uSuper League 1[/u
Wigan
Warrington
St Helens
Catalan Dragons
Leeds
Hull
Huddersfield
Wakefield
Bradford
Hull KR

[uSuper League 2[/u
Salford
London Broncos
Castleford
Widnes
Featherstone
Leigh
Halifax
Sheffield
Batley
Keighley

Prima facie this would create two close, exciting competitions with everything to play for, however it would probably mean an end to play offs as we know them albeit a 'finals day' at Old Trafford would be superb. I'm not sure whether SKY would endorse this, they seem to have been getting Hemmings to put out a fair bit of pro franchising propaganda lately. The main problem would be financial- the six moving up would need a lot more in the way of SKY money, however the amount they currently receive is to be reduced next year. It's an interesting one and with the right investment it could work, but I fear it could be another knee jerk reaction which we try for a few years then scrap.

Thoughts?

Let the squabbling over who should be in tier 1 or tier 2 begin!!

I personally think conferences are the way to go if there is funding to allow for 20 pro teams.

I could care less about which team is in which tier as long as we finally get a competitive league, something which isn't provided by a 14-team league and almost certainly wouldn't by 12 teams. We simply don't have the quality and depth of playing personnel, something which is only going to get worse with the increase in salary cap in the NRL.

So does that mean an 18 game season, or a convulted system to play each club 3 times to give 27 games (as we (sort of) previously had)?

Add in the Play Offs and you'll end up playing some teams 4 or 5 times in a single season, which IMHO really isn't what I want to watch.

Again!

As I mentioned: two 10 team conferences. Each play home and away, then top five of each conference form a separate league and play each other once, top 4/5 to play off for SL titile, bottom five of each conference to form another league and then top 4/5 from that group compete for a secondary title (the SL plate if you will),

Cue Smokey (who's made some sense recently to be fair!) and headhunter

and cue everyone else leaving the thread well alone! !

So... your solution to the issue that we haven't got 14 'competitive' teams in Super League, is to 'create' 20 competitive teams split across 2 Conferences of equal standing, with no P&R?

I like the sound of that but would sky cover all the teams in both 0ne and two comps