There have been many calls for the RFL to bring back P+R, personally I dont think they should have ever got rid of it. What are your views on it?



I am a firm believer that if you are the worst team in league 1 you should make way for the best team in league 2.

There aren't any clubs in the Championship currently who could survive for their initial season in Super League on one seasons worth of recruitment, so I don't see it making all that much difference to be honest.

I liked P+R. But if it were ever to return, then the Championship GF would need to be early in August at the latest. Widnes have struggled immensely and that's with ample preparation time. Give a Championship side just two / three months to prepare and they'd stand no chance.



Only way to combat that would be to reduce SL to 12 teams, which imo would be sad to see.

No, there is too much of a gap between the SL and the championship. Also using Widnes as an example they would be signing overseas players before using young british players to avoid relegation. For every HKR there is a Leigh who'll be just whipping boys for a year.



Admittidly the franchise system has its faults but with a governing body with some balls it would work fine. With teams not only being selected but can also get thrown out of the SL, for example if a team got a C last time and a C next time they haven't moved forward they should be shown the exit.

If its doene every 2 or 3 seasons, to give the promoted club time to find its feet then absolutely yes.

Go back to the "minimum criteria" used in the earlier days of SL and at least there will be a more transparent pathway into the top flight and not the current system of picking the "strongest" 14 clubs

As long as both the RFL and the clubs show no idea of how to improve the Championship as a ' Vibrant , worth winning in its own right ' Competition that will improve the clubs in it , then there is no point having promotion to SL



However having promotion to SL would drastically enhance the Championship as a ' Vibrant , worth winning competition ' and would help to improve the clubs in it









HTH

Yes. Make an exemption for teams coming up giving them 2 seasons exemption from relegation, allowing them to build properly. Sport should be given the chance as opposed to criteria.

Yes but no exemption on relegation. Sport should be about rewards for winning and a penalty for losing. Yes you get yo yo teams but you get previous 'powers' going through periods of decline. Things will balance out in the end.

just yes

I'd like to see the bottom SL team involved in a playoff series with the top Championship teams so that at least the team coming up (or staying up) can reasonably argue that it deserves its place. In recent years often the team coming up was worse than the team going down.

I'm totally against Promotion/relegation..it baffles me that there are a majority of people on here who agree with it.



Yes, it adds slightly more excitement to the bottom of the table at the end of the season....and yes, if you consistently under perform you should lose your place in SL....



But.....the vast majority of teams who were relegated when P/R was in place just came back the next available season. The players also left clubs because of relegation and just signed for the new promoted club....who in turn 9 times out of 10 were the team relegated the following season....oh and of course the players again left that club to rejoin the club that comes back up. A pointless circle in my view.



Teams also panic bought average NRL players just to stay in SL....and we saw what that did to our International set up and pool of players! Only now are the youngsters getting a chance at top SL clubs e.g. Watkins, Lomax et al and they'll be the breed of player that will improve ten fold our ability to compete with the Aussies & Kiwis.



More clubs also hit financial hardship with P/R....admittedly, a few teams have had issues since the franchise system....but they'd have been equally effected under P/R...we'd of just seen more teams in that boat!



I know this is just my opinion....and amazingly, I'm in the minority! But bringing back annual P/R will just take us back a massive step.

No, we're talking about promotion and relegetion over say 2-3 years.

Therefore an automatic pathway into the top flight, with 2 or 3 years to get up to speed.

I agree with you regarding the journeyman players, that moved from promoted club to promoted club, but the current system is flawed, biased and not transparent.