BACK at the start of 1996, the 1995-96 First Division was entering its last month before Super League would begin.
A switch from the winter to summer with 14 full-time teams making up a top flight was seen as radical at the time whilst now it is considered the norm - albeit with 12 instead of 14 as of now.
Back then, with Rupert Murdoch's SkyAll of the proposed mergers that never happened with the creation of Super League in 1996
BACK at the start of 1996, the 1995-96 First Division was entering its last month before Super League would begin.
A switch from the winter to summer with 14 full-time teams making up a top flight was seen as radical at the time whilst now it is considered the norm - albeit with 12 instead of 14 as of now.
Back then, with Rupert Murdoch's Sky