Its a terrible idea.

I am not sure what they get but its nothing like £800K. This crazy plan would somehow have to come up with a massive amount of extra cash to give all the 24 teams an even financial chance.

And here is another question, how will the clubs sell season tickets ?



They will know less than half the fixtures and dates. Will they sell half a ticket for the first bit of the season and then another ticket for the last bit ?

Only going of what I heard Yorkshire radio last night.

Why do they want to over complicate things.

To me, and most I speak, with the way ahead is one up, one down.

With a proviso that certain essential and totally clear criteria have to be met.

No ifs, buts or special cases.

Its a way of reducing the top tier to 12, after that the second group will be cast aside like the championship have been.

Here's a radical suggestion,

3 divisions with the bottom team being demoted and the top team being Champions and promoted to the higher division.

You're being a bit opptimistic aren't you?

Can't help but thinky you've got that bang on dad!!

Chocolate coat it enough to make it look like being booted out aint half bad then once out BANG the door closes as does any support!!

The preverbial chocolate coated dog turd a la red hall!!

Silly idea.

In terms of splitting the money, if there isn’t any more forthcoming. Then a 60/40 or 70/30 split would be satisfactory.



I’m not sure what the current subsidy is, but if it stands at £1.2M per SL club this totals £16.8M per season. This roughly ties in with the £90M figure quoted as being the value of the most recent 5 year TV deal.



If this were to be split on a 60/40 basis the top 12 would receive £840K and the bottom 12 £560K. If it were a 70/30 then the top 12 each get £980K and the bottom 12 £420K. Any more than that and it becomes a futile exercise fusing the top of the second tier with the bottom of the first.

It does rather seem that Big Al has hit the nail on the head; some of the games power-brokers have been clamouring for a reduction in the number of teams in SL, so this feels like a complicated way to achieve that, whilst trying to convince the teams cast adrift that it's for their own good.



Without a significant uplift in TV money, either from Sky or BeIn for the 2nd tier, the whole thing becomes nothing more than an exercise in allowing Leeds, Wigan, Wire and a.n other to keep more money (and players) for themselves.



I'm trying to work out what a late run of wins like we had last season would look like in this proposed new structure; as far as I can tell, it would all be for naught - our season would have been over before that winning run even got started.