bobbruce

Can someone clear this up for me. When teams split into their 8s are they then not just finishing their league season off. After this has been completed I thought the top three or four teams then go into a play off.

In that system you could have a team winning the grand final and getting relegated in the same season.

No it isn't if everything is equal its the RFL that gets to decide

Why would it be fair to have licenses for French teams but not for English teams.

Scotland's done well to get Linnett who for me has been one of the best centres in the NRL this year.

Sam and George should be nailed on I would take a gamble on Tom for his impact. Don't think Luke is good enough I would go with Hill to take his spot.

As I say you couldn't be certain on the knock on because he could hit the ball into Shaul but watch the video again the point at which oloughlin picks the ball up is closer to the Wigan line than where charnley touches it.Also to add its completely irrelevant where charnley ends up all that matters is where he touched the ball. If the ball goes forward from that point (towards the hull line) oloughlin offside. If as I think it does the ball goes backwards (towards the Wigan line) then he's onside.

That's off a kick but a kick will be going forward so if your in front you need the kicker to play you onside. This ball was touched so if the point where oloughlin picks the ball up is behind where charnley touches its ok. You can't be offside picking a ball up that goes backwards.

It's impossible to say whether its a knock on or not as he could of hit the ball into Shaul. I'm certain oloughlin isn't offside though as the ball from the initial contact goes back towards the Wigan line so even if oloughlin comes from an offside position he has to put himself onside to pick the ball up

Why not award points in the reverse of finishing positions after 23 rds then. So 8 place gets 1 point 7th - 2,6th - 3 and so on. That way teams are rewarded for their performance in the earlier rounds but all the teams could still make or drop out of the play-offs.

Not only will they most likely have a points advantage over the other teams. 5 th place will be in a mini league were they will only play teams below them if they finish bottom they'll deserve to go down.

I think it will work but only in creating an 8 team SL.

Within a framework decided by the clubs and various leagues.

I think he coaches junior teams but not sure what badges would be required for that level. Got a feeling he did them when he was out injured recently.

No championship clubs had a choice that's why some clubs aren't DR to a SL team. No sport is run by a governing body with out agreement from its members how would that work. That's why the league structure is suggested by the RFL and then voted on by the clubs or would you like the RFL to say this is the structure your going to play in get on with it.

Didn't the RFL want to keep the under 23s I think that was their recommendation. The clubs voted against it and choose the DR system instead. Now that its in the best thing to do is look at it at the end of the season so I'm not sure what the RFL has done wrong here.

I'm starting to see where the RFL is going with this its not about enlarging SL it will effectively reduce SL to eight teams. Behind that though there will be another 8 teams who can step in if one of the 8 over stretch themselves and go bust.

Even when there were 12 teams in the league they still had 14 home games because of repeat fixtures.

Think this is another situation were the RFL can't win. If this game was staged in Doncaster or the midlands we would be lucky to get 3-4000 fans turning up and the RFL would be getting stick over that. As it is even playing it in Leigh I'd be surprised if there's more than 7-8000. But that should be enough to break even and it won't look awful on TV.

I'm not sure the RFL would have the power to make that decision. Is it not set in stone that CC semis are neutral venue.

From what I've seen most reasonable posters havent said anything like that. They have been saying that Fev had done enough to gain themselves a licence. It would of been well earned and would of given them three years security to try to establish themselves in SL. Now as someone else has pointed out the best the can hope for is to win promotion in 2016 or 17. I fear by then all their momentum will have stopped

You mean the man who was behind the dual reg system. We can't go wrong then.

I agree we shouldn't be playing the exiles we should be doing a probables v possibles match. It will only get worse as the quality of imports drops with the NRL salary cap going up. That said we shouldnt be playing France mid season either as I dont think they want the game and I'm sure Catalans don't. It's too much strain on their squad in the middle of the season.

I think the points do carry over for the top and bottom 8.

Less of a pop at RL and more of a statement on how far Wigan athletic have come. He just said that the latics are now drawing bigger crowds than Wigan RL.