Not taking anything away from Leigh, who have proved to be the best team in the Championship by 'a country mile' over the last three years, does it really prove the doubters wrong and give hope to other teams? Could a team without a financial backer who is willing to pump in x amount of lots of £s be able to sign cast off/unwanted/unloved super league/NRL standard players and compete above and beyond others both on and off the field in the Championship? I'm fairly sure that if Leigh do promote, the whole concept will be seen as a massive resounding success by the rfl and the line from them will be "well Leigh have done it, so can you". Hope -meh. For most teams, including ours at the minute, it is an 'impossible dream with a dangled carrot'

Errm, Widnes went up when the Crusaders collapsed, but I can't remember anyone else being promoted under the "old system"? Licensing started in 2009, and no-one ever replaced a SL team that was still solvent.

The new system is far from perfect, and may need some serious financial backing of a Championship team to make it, but it's far better than the closed shop that we had under franchising.

Yeah, great.

Started in 2009, one club goes bust in 2012 which makes things easy, by 2015, we've got a new system. We hardly gave it much of a trial, did we ?

That's one of the problems with the game, we decide something, decide it's carp and change it at the next meeting. All the RFL (and by that I mean the clubs) are proving is that they don't know what they're doing.

As more pro teams are playing in the Championship, with most probably Toronto for 2018, I think it is time to go back to a 3 up, 3 down structure.
I'd prefer a 1st past the post are champs too.

Thanks for the airplay JTBF. You know, playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.



I'd love to hang around n chit chat but I do get a lot of fanmail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

Peace, love n Fax.

Has your account been hijacked by Charlie