Whatever the RL decide to do, you can guarantee it will be on as level a playing field as Batley's.

I am with Ken Davey on two SL tens, both full time.

If it is 12 then the straight up/down is needed with equal distribution of funds which would be about 300k in our 12 and I would throw Toulouse straight into SL if they bring a French TV contract to cover themselves and Catalans, this then puts an extra £200k to every SL2 club and with £500k from central they should all then become FT with min standards on ground criteria and salary spends ie min £850k spend. This way the relegated clubs can build again.

One up for winning league and 1 from play off to include 2-5 from SL2 and 2nd bottom SL1, with bottom straight down.

It sounded like the 2 SL clubs that had to drop out were getting a bigger payment than rest ,hope this is not the case .

You mean like 4 clubs going bust during licensing

I would expect that to be the case in most professional sports the clubs dropping down get a parachute payment.

But that just starts the yo yo systems again though . The only way for it to work is all part time or full time can't see anything different otherwise i.e. London come down with whoever, more money to spend can stay full time outcome, they go back up again year after .

I kind of agree but its up to us (all of us in the championship) to go full time if we want to compete as a professional club.



Season before last Wolves, Bolton and Rovers all got relegated and received parachute payments none of them got promoted back to the premier league this time.

Agree glow, it's up to us to support a full time club if we want SL

Championship clubs have favoured the 2 x 12, 3 x 8 option apparently at their meeting last night.

Oh FFS



Why can't we have a nice easy system for a change ie 2 x 12 2 up 2 down

I like the 2x12/ 3x8.

It helps to close the gap between SL and the Championship, or at least offers the chance for top CH teams to play Sl teams on a mroe equal basis. No point being promoted adn gettign thrashed every week.

That will only work if they change the way the teams are funded. An extra 2.5 mill is freed up by relegating two teams. That should be distributed on a sliding scale dependant on league position. Probably won' t be though!