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Good questions and they are the ones that the leadership of the sport need to answer instead of constantly re-arranging things and expecting a different outcome. The best way is to do this organically or with an impetus into new areas. A study of soccer expansion 100 years ago is also worth a study.

Although St helens should have been 2 days before

No, its one option for terrace only

So its a closed shop of 2 divisions incorporating some of the clubs that are either too small or already failed at SL level? I don't see the merit of a 2 league closed shop unless its conference style, and then I would make it 4 leagues with cross league games similar to US sports. Other than that it should be a closed shop of 1 league OR tiered like it is now. The problem that seems to be the elephant in the room is that we have a collection of teams that are at 5 different levels of operation and as such 3 leagues is too small to seperate the disparity. We ideally need 5 leagues and more clubs.

Its hand in hand, income generation = professional game I get its also chicken and egg though

presume its the corporate that is oversubscribed and that maybe what they are expanding. 1 corporate ticket is the same as 15-25 normal tickets revenue wise

They could have just attached a load of balloons to his house....

I think they picked Saints because they thought saints would be there and could draw a decent crowd. Same with Leeds the year earlier. The womens game is nowhere near pro level and probably never will be.

Here we go, The best rugby stadium in the land (just don't look at the away end) When I buy tickets at my club for Leeds away they give me a ticket for that joke of a stand.....

Its everytine some says 'best in all codes of rugby by far' or 'best in the league' well its not as the away end is worse than wakeys away end. Its an ok stadium but not the best and certainly no where near the best if your an away fan.

Did anyone hear (think if was bill arthur) refer to hurrel as an out of control cement mixer in the semi final

Was going to say the same thing, it is a 7 tackle set. In fact the first tackle is called a 0 tackle however 0 means none so how can it be a tackle?

Quite right, its 'adding the extras'

I don't get the whole 2 x10, we currently have 3 leagues why shrink to 2? We currently have a top league with 12 and loop fixtures, why decrease the number and increase loop games, it doesn't make sense. Can anyone shed some light onto this?

Worst one is 'In the washing machine' where has that even come from, spinning 360 is a penalty once your over the horizontal and summer rugby doesn't have too many wet and soapy nights

No one says champagne rugby league anymore since Steve and Eddie's retired.

Go for the one pointer

5th tackle and last one coming it means...

OK Coaches would coach them. Central funding would pay a portion for them as clubs wouldn't need to pay for their own academy's. Some academy's could even be self funded, especially if the draft was only for players over 23!

Agreed, the sports that have someone who dominates makes household names, there's then the glory hunters who support person/team and the underdog lovers who wants them knocked off their perch. Man U dominated the prem for 20 years and that kept growing from strength to strength, Schumacher, Taylor, McCoy, Wigan, Barcelona/real Madrid, Federer/Nadal, celtic/rangers etc..

Nearly 50% of the match pole wrote of the saints... that was always a bad idea, as Joynty said never write off the saints again!!

In your head maybe, in the real world it would work.

Why ?

Well one would imagine the answer to your question is obvious... you play the other academy's! This would work with a draft system either through individual areas or as a bigger overall draft. Could give the first picks to the worst performing teams. Probably would include a Cheshire academy to the list also

Yeah Ste and this saints team isn't that saints team either. Hope Knowles gets MOTM too.