It comes down to a lot of things being in place that's why the licencing and criteria systems were first thought up.
Problem was it has proved unsubstainable for the Super League clubs previously mentioned.
The massive uneven distributuion of funds in Super Leagues favour created a gap that wide that could not be crossed by any club trying to get into the top competion.
This made promotion and relegation far more serious that just going up and down.
In the old format it produce the jo jo situation.
How could the newly promoted club or clubs suddenly adjust to a full time enviroment of Super League in just one season with the new demands involved.
Just one of the problems was the recruitment of players which in many cases meant most of the team because the gap in playing standards was huge.
Most teams could not do this in the first year meaning they went straight back down within a season resulting in losing all the money and investment involved.
The solution was said to be to give the newly promoted clubs more time to adjust hence the birth of a licencing system for 3 or 4 years.
With the expansion area clubs included and favoured in the same thinking.
Word soon got round that promotion and relegation was to be scrapped and the implications sunk in that if you were relegated when this happened it would be for a good period of time maybe for ever.
The clubs at the bottom of Super League that were in danger of relegation spent heavily on trying to avoid this fate.
Of course someone still had to finnish bottom and for the relegated side all this money was lost and left them heavily it debt that could not be repaid.
The other clubs involved in the survival dog fight who had avoided the drop were left in debt because of overspending to avoid it.
Even though they stayed within the salary cap spending near to or up to the limit was too much for them.
The salary cap is flawed in the sence that it favours those that can spend to the limit, even now there is a big miss match between the top clubs and the bottom clubs in Super League resulting in the top clubs cleaning up the on the field prizes because they can pay top dollar and sign up all the best players.
Even sucess can be a poisened challice if you get carried away by it and fail to manage your club correctly.
Bradford for example came out of the chasing pack and spent heavily on player recruitment under the leadership of Chris Caisley and it paid off when they started winning all the trophies.
This lead to thousands of extra supporters coming to watch them.
Problem was now to maintain this on the field success because as soon as they started to lose games and have a less than winning season many of the new faces stopped going.
The buget had been set for around the 17 to 18 thousand mark which they got in the glory years but only 14 to 15 were turning up when they started to lose a few games leaving a serious shortfall in money that was unsustainable.
Why do you think Mr Caisely got out when he did.
The problems in the game largely revolve around the lack of money and the lack of leadership that is capable of coming up with any strategy to deal with the difficult times the game has and is facing.
Life in Super League largely revolves around the so called big 3 or 4 clubs and life outside Super League allthough it exists is quickly becoming life on another planet that could slowly die off.