welshmagpie Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 http://www.rugby-league.com/article/40143/new-southern-rugby-league-competition-set-to-launch-in- very good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev p Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Plan looks well structured, let's hope it gets going. East & west divs of 8 teams each would be a good start, 14 games each then play offs. I assume play offs would create an overall winner of the whole comp. could lead to promotion to ncl if standards raise enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sick39ed Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 What level of the pyramid will this league be? Also, will teams be able to enter the Challenge Cup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Parksider Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 1 hour ago, welshmagpie said: http://www.rugby-league.com/article/40143/new-southern-rugby-league-competition-set-to-launch-in- very good news Is this the creation of a league to demote clubs like Hemel Ironmen and Oxford to?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Parksider Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Just now, The Parksider said: double Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 52 minutes ago, Sick39ed said: What level of the pyramid will this league be? Also, will teams be able to enter the Challenge Cup? I'd have thought the champion of each premier division would be invited, though not heard it confirmed. Not sure what level of the pyramid it will be at though logically it should be seen as one division below the NCL. In practice if the RFL set up a new development pro league as rumoured on another thread then this will be a feeder league to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 35 minutes ago, The Parksider said: Is this the creation of a league to demote clubs like Hemel Ironmen and Oxford to?? I don't think so. I think they are looking at a separate competition for that, but don't know who'll be in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Parksider Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 1 minute ago, bowes said: I don't think so. I think they are looking at a separate competition for that, but don't know who'll be in it Another competition as well? Where will the clubs and players come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 59 minutes ago, The Parksider said: Another competition as well? Where will the clubs and players come from? Depends on the restructure. South Wales and possibly Oxford would fold on the spot if they were dropped into this new amateur competition. Hemel could survive with local players. I'd go with two divisions of ten at Super League level and promote Toronto there. Drop five clubs into the new Championship to join teams 2-8 in League 1. Teams 9-16 in league 1 to join Manchester and one to three others in the lower league. The only tricky part is whether to try to fit Avignon in. I think there's no real reason them playing below Super League 2, but they may not be quote ready for that level yet. The following format looks better than what we've got: Super League 1: Castleford Catalans Huddersfield Hull Leeds St Helens Salford Wakefield Warrington Wigan Super League 2: Leigh Widnes Hull KR Toulouse London Bradford Featherstone Halifax Sheffield Toronto Championship: Batley Dewsbury Oldham Rochdale Swinton Workington Whitehaven Barrow York Hunslet Keighley Doncaster League 1: London Skolars Newcastle North Wales Gloucestershire Coventry Oxford Hemel South Wales Manchester Bishops Burton College Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivarr the Boneless Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Good news. Much needed, just hope enough clubs are interested. Re Oxford, as a season ticket holder I'd be surprised if they survived being cut out of the league but Oxford Cavaliers may be a possible contender for membership as they have a bit of advance warning to build up where needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Parksider Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 2 hours ago, bowes said: Depends on the restructure. South Wales and possibly Oxford would fold on the spot if they were dropped into this new amateur competition. Hemel could survive with local players. Many thanks for your thoughts as always. I just hope the regionalisation of the sport can get more playing, as players don't really want to be travelling hours to play a game of Rugby. For me this is one of several big barriers to expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 11 minutes ago, The Parksider said: Many thanks for your thoughts as always. I just hope the regionalisation of the sport can get more playing, as players don't really want to be travelling hours to play a game of Rugby. For me this is one of several big barriers to expansion. The East Premier should easily get off the ground with a decent sized league. The West one may have to start small and expand over time. Initially it will be dominated by Welsh clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Parksider Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, bowes said: The East Premier should easily get off the ground with a decent sized league. The West one may have to start small and expand over time. Initially it will be dominated by Welsh clubs It would be wonderful for these divisions to be created and to accommodate more people playing at a level they can manage, with smaller travel times, and maybe if things grow, improve their infrastructure and grow a bit more. But I don't go for any idea that over time they will progress up the league to professionalisation, as we see survival even with £75K a year has been a hard task. I'm a fervent expansionist but also a realist in these matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM2010 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Hopefully, in time, the regional leagues underneath can expand to more divisions as I believe that adding new teams in these leagues with junior sections is what real expansion is about. They could even run smaller more regionalised competitions below the regional leagues, for example, a 5 team North London and 5 team South London underneath the London 2 division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbe Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 This will not affect Hemel semi pro team Hemel Stags run two amature teams open age one is the current East Premier Champions the other is a merit team. All with local players. The idea of this proposal is to bring the strongest teams together to make a competitive competition ie warrior's host's, London Chargers, plus many more teams. The winners then go into the Harry Jepson trophy and the winner's go into the 1st round of the Challenge Cup. I think it is a very good concept it will help bridge the very hard the gap between amateur (community) and semi pro rugby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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