Re: Super 8s gone : Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:00 pm  

I live RL and Fax but I have never seen agoverning body of a sport chop and change their league system like the RFL do. They are beholden to Sky and SL clubs. If they want this system they need to say it will start in 2020 so next season everyone knows what is happening.
All this sh#te started when sky took over. Yes I know we were one of the first in SL but then the RFL have tried to copy the Aussies because they see there system as being sooooo good. Well it works for them not us. I think tow up and two down works well. One automatic and the other is a play off game. Yes top teams get
More money but make sure the lower league teams get a fair deal too so when it aimed to promotion or a play off they (we) can compete.
I live watching this game, Fax and our local teams but the RFL, SL and Sky are utter disrespectful c#*ts to lower league clubs

Re: Super 8s gone : Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:44 pm  

freddies wig wrote:

How on earth can they change the whole system so late in the season?

This just shows how weak the RFL are, four or five SL clubs being the tail that wags the dog.

The sport of rugby league deserves better

Yes.

Re: Super 8s gone : Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:00 pm  

I was reading on the Bulls pages that some of their fans had thought they had blown their chance of getting promoted.... Until this change has come along. Forget Bulls they should be called cats, nine lives for sure. It will be good to be playing the Bulls again a real good local derb. And they have signed Webster from Cas. I like him would have been a boost for our centres possision

Re: Super 8s gone : Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:30 pm  

Proposals allegedly rejected by the clubs.....

Re: Super 8s gone : Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:48 pm  

Middle 8s great if you qualify and get loads more money, but agree it's badly flawed and leaves behind the much hated Championship Shield.

But one up one down is not the answer. Last 3 seasons we've had runaway leaders which would have meant a dead rubber for the majority of teams as early as May. Why not the old style 5 team GF play off with the winner getting promoted, and the losing finalist in a million pound play off with 2nd bottom SL? Why oh why oh why oh why can't the RL see this as the more exciting workable option? I despair, I really do.

Re: Super 8s gone : Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:04 pm  

I despair, I really do.

Dont we all !!

Re: Super 8s gone : Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:35 pm  

Fuzzy Duck wrote:

Middle 8s great if you qualify and get loads more money, but agree it's badly flawed and leaves behind the much hated Championship Shield.

But one up one down is not the answer. Last 3 seasons we've had runaway leaders which would have meant a dead rubber for the majority of teams as early as May. Why not the old style 5 team GF play off with the winner getting promoted, and the losing finalist in a million pound play off with 2nd bottom SL? Why oh why oh why oh why can't the RL see this as the more exciting workable option? I despair, I really do.

The last thing the SL clubs want us the million pound game but if there was a more even spread of money it might not be such a disaster for clubs.

Re: Super 8s gone : Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:17 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

But announcing the change at this point in the season is pathetic. All teams should know what the are playing for at the start of the season and that shouldn’t change, this is so unprofessional it’s beyond belief, well actually, no it isn’t.

Don't worry, Norman. There are months to go before the start of next season. The structure will probably have changed a couple of times before then.

Re: Super 8s gone : Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:22 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

The last thing the SL clubs want us the million pound game but if there was a more even spread of money it might not be such a disaster for clubs.

As usual, money is the problem. We didn't have enough to create a sufficiently good under competition for the top teams in Div 2 to challenge the bottom teams in Div 1. So we created this idea of giving a few teams in Div 2 a lot of money. Which created a huge split between the top four - plus two teams who were throwing money at winning promotion - and the rest, completely ruining Div 2.

Funnily enough, I've not seen the new money arrangements mentioned .....