Wellsy4HullFC

Brummicanes?

It's just the blue that bothers me. The design is fine. But they can't bang on about how they've done all this research and navy is the right colour moving forward, dropping the traditional red for it, then 4 years later drop it for a different shade of blue!

32 point headstart on the handicap. I think everyone is resigned to it being a foregone conclusion. Oldham were probably the closest chance and they just got 70+ put on them!

That could make sense. Perhaps the don't want to do incremental and more expensive steps up in size and would prefer to do one major overhaul into the full size when things are more guaranteed about their position in SL. Last thing that can afford to do is spend the money on the pitch, governance change brings about reduced numbers in the league, get relegated and have to tear the pitch up again because they need extra revenue from the racing.

They're trying to rebuild a brand. They're going to struggle to do that with an inexperienced squad playing poor rugby and that's it because they've saved up the rest to spend on a pitch in a few years time if they have enough. If the fans aren't coming in and being entertained, the pitch won't be an issue because there won't be anything to play on. Not everyone comes just for the purity of watching rugby.

I think once they got in, it would always switch to on field performance as the next focus. They're not going to bring in their historic large audiences by being bottom of the pile every year.

What a rant! "We need to play in bigger cities." Followed by... "Why won't they relegate Bradford?" "They'd have got rid of Toulouse for London." These are 2 big cities. If we want big cities, we keep these 2! They won't get rid of Bradford because they just promoted 3 teams (3 city teams!) with a plan to grow them, and also because they're going to Vegas next year (Super League's global showcase match).

*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.