not really surprised by some of the downbeat posts, as some of us seen it coming.
there is a lot of good things going on in the sport, i.e sport england and the money from the tv deals etc.
for ages i and others said that increasing to fourteen teams with a top eight system would not work, especially with no relegation. your playoff race has to be where finishing just one place higher with say two or three games left would benefit your team.
i would...
have 12 teams possible even 10, now that the ink is dry on the aussie tv deal.
top 5 playoff.
reward teams in some way who bring players through the youth system. even more so now with the tv deal down under.
get shut of wood and appoint someone from outside the game. people will start to see how good lewis was the longer we have wood in charge. as they say you don't miss them till they have gone.
get shut of cummins. the standard has nosedived since the aussie (forgot his name) left.
consistency in the handling of discipline in red hall.
i don't mind P&R as long as we don't end up with just another yo-yo effect.
they can pat each other on the back for things such as the increase in crowds (and rightly so) but the test will be to keep those fans and if the clubs keep taking the mick out of the fan by just needing to do enough then they only have themselves to blame when one day they ask where did they all go.