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*double post*

If you did that to London, there'd be no point in having them up. You'd completely alienate the support base you're trying to bring into the game. If there are to be 15 teams, you either lose a home game and go to 26 rounds over 28 weeks (which is still a week longer), or you extend to 30 weeks and remove the Challenge Cup. Making London play half their games away is amateur back of fag-packet thinking.

Issue with that is, in the last 10 years every SL club has either won a trophy or reached a final other than the 3 that were just promoted (and you could argue 2 of those won a trophy last season!). So you could argue they're all contributing. Some are just on a downward.

Amateur idea. If it was going to come to that, it's not worth doing.

Bearing in mind the NRL want this Global Round to take off, this might tie in to that in 2028.

Got mine!

Or go down to 26 games over 28 rounds?

I did say I'm the past that the only other way you could do Magic with an odd number is to have 2 on-the-road games per club, with Magic being one. Like you say, you've already got 3 trans giving up a home fixture. The other 3 give up theirs for Magic. Just need to split up the rest now.

Any further developments of whether they'll be back?

He needs to put some pants on!

Under the current playoff format, yes. But Leeds (5th) beat Saints (3rd) in 2011 is the only other time both the top 2 haven't made the final. The only other time both teams that reached the semi finals with a bye (and therefore a home tie) have both failed to reach the final is 2012. Wigan (1st) won their first round match, but lost in the semis to Leeds (5th). Saints (3rd) won their first round match against Warrington (2nd), but lost in the semis return match between the two.

You can't have an odd number of games with an odd number of teams. 1 team will have played 1 game less than everyone else. i.e. if everyone has played a round robin and are on the exact same number of games, if you then play Magic Weekend, one team will not play because there's 15.

Can't be 31 rounds with an odd number of teams.

If he really wanted to get more eyes on the NRL over here, there needs to be more crossover games. It'll instantly pull more SL fans eyes over there (and possibly the other way). They're practically disconnected in every way.

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