A quick glance at the teams who finished 9-12 this year, who will all have improved slightly for 2015 whilst we've stepped down a peg, shows that they collectively defeated us by an average score of 46-15 over the 8 games last year. We got close to Wakefield in atrocious conditions, but in reality we were easy-beats in the rest of the games.
No matter
if we defeat everyone, including Bradford and Leigh twice, finishing on 44 points in 2015 it is the ability to defeat 2 of the teams from SL (OR THE SAME TEAM TWICE) that will get us back into Superleague.
If the Championship team that makes the Million Quid Game get's hammered for a couple of seasons, how many of these "non-events" will the RFL permit before they change the format to 1 up/1 down again? Of all the teams I saw relegated in my time as a London Broncos supporter, only Halifax and Leigh didn't "bounce back". Salford, Widnes and Castleford all managed to come back and HKR seem to have done OK.
As for Fax and Leigh, both clubs seem to have benefited from their time outside of the franchised comp, putting down decent foundations for sustainable growth.....I don't see licencing as a bad thing and I suspect it may well be back in the pretty near future. Let's hope we get an invite, because I really can't see us getting back by any other means.