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That's the plan...but splitting the 3 World Cups (mens, womens and wheelchair) is a mistake IMHO

Sadly thats true...any open age competitions up here have been disrupted by teams folding, players changing codes and using RL to improve fitness, tackling and handling before going back to RU and lack of direction. North Wales Crusaders are trying hard with a reserve team and a womens team, but players with any significant RL talent will get snapped up by teams in the North West of England.

Both Wales v Ireland games played on the same day as the Ashes...and not announced until after Ashes tickets had gone on sale!! You couldn't make it up!

Just another bit of info to add: Liverpool FC play at home on 1st November with a 20:00 kick off. I'd expect it to be pretty busy in the city centre after the Ashes game finishes.

From Everton FCs website "In the post-match period, when Sandhills becomes busy, some supporters may prefer to use Bank Hall, James Street or Moorfields, depending on final destination. These are 25/30 minutes’ walk from the stadium."

Last season we played 2 1895 Cup games and 2 Challenge Cup games...with your format that would be 30 games with the 26 League games you propose. That's not going to fit within the playing window let alone give any consideration for semi-pro players and their families.

Your Group 1 would need some real assistance with travel costs with trips from Cumbria and Newcastle to London. We (NW Crusaders) are fairly central with Hurricanes being our closest game. The other two Groups are much more geographically aligned. I think 26 games plus 1895 cup and Challenge Cup would be pushing it for semi-pro players to be honest.

If they have already accepted 12 home fixtures but not the format there must be leeway to increase that number depending on the format....or has the format already been decided but not yet ratified?

I've already bought my season ticket for North Wales Crusaders on an early bird deal but I've no idea how many games I'll be paying for! I guess the club are working on a minimum of 12 home games and they'll honour anything above that number. Their sales pitch was that there wouldn't be any tickets for games cheaper than the early bird offer. Like others have highlighted the Clubs like to get a regular cash flow at this time of year with season ticket sales; I'm sure some of the Directors and Chairs will be pressurising the RFL to publicise a decision regarding the league format.

I'm bumping this thread up the forum Does anyone know when the Championship league structure is going to be announced?

I voted for Devolution and still consider the Senedd doesn't have nearly enough powers and too many decisions that Wales should be making are still made in Westminster. There's an easy way to compensate for the additional 36 MSs ...get rid of the 88 MPs and stand alone as an independent nation!! Straying into politics here...my apologies.

I think Dragons have had their feet on the beach for a couple of weeks before this game!

We do definitely benefit from our proximity to the North West of England and our players have come from semi-pro and amateur teams across the region. The new owners have been proactive in setting up a reserves team and they've already signed the first player to come through from that team. Lets hope that continues and we discover and develop players locally. Wales RL has no funding for developing players; one of our coaching staff is involved in coaching the Dragonhearts and they basically have to self fund to play in competitions. I doubt the Senedd has even registered that North Wales has a semi-pro rugby league team let alone a relatively successful one.

Wins for TO XIII, Bulls, Panthers, Raiders, Vikings and Knights

It was a shame Hurricanes had their 6 game slump. It would have been nice to see Hurricanes in the top four.