gingerjon

31 My eyes are doing a victory dance.

Go to the toilets at your local station. Bound to be something happening there.

Are we at cross-purposes? I thought you were discussing how the teams would be ranked for distribution at the start of the 2015 season. That's based on finishing positions (including relegation) in 2014.

Why does it have to be the table toppers? It specifically refers to the top 2 in the Championship (clubs 3&4 in Tier 2 in 2015). Could easily be the grand finalists. And should be.

So I walk into the toilets at London Bridge station and three guys are having a wnaking contest at the urinals.

Look over here, structure, don't look around the structure, look at the structure. don't look over there, look at the structure, the structure ...

I don't necessarily agree with everything in this but would stress - if London survive then at best for the current members of the Championship it's only 2 of them who are going to get any worthwhile funding.

There's a bit in the proposal about funding for academies and/or centres of excellence. They would get direct payments from the RFL. Is it that? (And I'm assuming it's ringfenced.)

I don't think anyone has put the distribution figures on here. As they relate to how the restructure will work rather than the TV deal itself (which is Sky handing over money and SL/RFL dealing with it) I think it's relevant they're spelt out here: In 2015, then: 12 SL Clubs: £1.825m Clubs 13/14: £788k, £787k Cubs 15/16: £550k, £500k Clubs 17-24: Between £250k and £150k (Club 24, I presume is the 2014 C1 Champions). Championship 1 clubs: 75k So it's pretty much as per the initial RFL proposal.

There are probably loads out there. I have it good authority that Andy Gray is a Grade A [naughty word].

"Jim White" is trending already.

Don't know about sponsorship but the names are: 1st 8: Super League 2nd 8: Super League Qualifying 3rd 8: Championship Shield Bottom bit no one notices: Championship 1

They may have but it would go against what they've actually written and got the clubs to vote for.

Absolutely. The only crack I can see is that I struggle to see London existing at the end of 2014 so a space opens up.

The earliest a team currently in the Championship will be playing in Super League is 2016 is all we can say right now.

This is between the third 8 and what is now Championship 1. In the third 8, two teams go down. From what is now Championship 1, two teams are promoted.

The pathway is there, true, in that promotion and relegation exists between the two divisions. But, the much heralded redistribution of funding stops about halfway down the second lot of 12 and doesn't enter tier 3 at all. All of the 'jeopardy' focus is on the sides inside the 24 so all the resources envisaged by this 'whole game solution' go there. The gap is going to get wider and wider. And, like I've said before, this is a whole game solution that washes the RFL's hands of any responsibility or commitment to international development, expansion or taking positive action to sort out the community game - all the while whilst lowering the standards they expect their professional clubs to meet and telling them that they won't be monitoring them anyway.

Must just be a coincidence all these Fev fans praising it without making any comment at all about the impact on the game in the lower half of the Championship and C1, and the wider spread of the game beyond that.

I'll let you know when I've either finished it or thrown it across the room.

I'm not convinced that he ever worked through some of those ideas enough, even in his head, to create a novel from them although it would have been brilliant if he could have. I've just finished The Shape of Water, the first Montalbano novel, and liked it enough to download the second. I have a travelogue of Antarctica to read next though.

My dad changed the order depending on which his mood took him. But, never fear, he also had an index of the books that he would place next to them so you knew the alternative way of filing.

They were asked to provide league systems with jeopardy to replace the tired, drab world of Super League. 3x8 was one of three proposals.

KPMG came up with it having been asked to identify league systems that promised jeopardy. Given that they copied almost everything about this system whether it worked or not in the richest country in the world playing the world's most popular sport is probably a teensy bit relevant.

I misread that bit before. It is 2 up isn't it? I thought it was 1.

Must have been that season they finished bottom.