Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:10 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Saw this on Hullkrfans earlier.

Things that spring immediately to mind are:

13 is a very strange number for a league format.

Changing the format of this season (e.g. to a 5th vs 6th MPG) at this stage - surely not?! Any changes would be for 2019, I suspect.

Extra revenue from hosting Hull KR's MASSIVE away following once a season, even assuming we got up, isn't going to offset the cutting the Sky pie more ways (though it might explain 13 teams, rather than going for the more obvious 14). Except for Hull FC... maybe.

The 5 teams looking down the barrel of the middle 8s, will be nervous having seen our fate last year. For example, if you get a man unluckily sent off ten minutes into your first game at Fev, then suddenly the whole long-term future of your club looks rather shaky. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - this is sport - but the self-preservation instincts of the SL clubs are strong.

THE reason for 13 and not 12 is to give every team a bye so the players get a rest it works I believe in AUS so why not hear that way the teams might not be so shagged at the end of the season for when we play AUS and NEW Zealand It did work in AUS but now they have 16 teams just checked

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:59 pm  

Licensing / franchising will be brought back, probably for 2019 as I suspect Toronto will be given one season in the Championship.

We currently have 13 genuine SL clubs going for 12 places. At the moment one of them will be stuck outside of SL when the applications go in.

Unless there's a fix it.

As with most things RL I suspect the goal posts will be positioned based on the clubs involved.

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:14 pm  

The situation around the Magic Weekend becoming a Nines Tournament ala Auckland is been wheeled around by a lot of people including J. P.
Read on one forum that the RFL think it would allow them to move to new areas and invite guest teams to compete.
The idea is if they could get a union rep team, an Aussie team, an American team etc, it will attract greater media coverage and be a greater aid to expansion.

Where fans fit into the equation, is anyone's guess.

[Mild Rover]

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:39 pm  

cravenpark1 wrote:

THE reason for 13 and not 12 is to give every team a bye so the players get a rest it works I believe in AUS so why not hear that way the teams might not be so shagged at the end of the season for when we play AUS and NEW Zealand It did work in AUS but now they have 16 teams just checked

You can have bye weeks with even numbers of teams too though.

As for us being knackered, that is number of games as much as the spaces between them.

They (the NRL) play 24 regular season games plus a maximum of 4 play-off games.

For us it is 30 (including the 8s) and 2. They have Origin, but we have the challenge cup.

Somebody who plays every NRL and Origin round plays 31 games. That's based on a circuitous route to their Grand Final.

Somebody who plays every SL round and reaches both major finals plays 36. Possibly 37, if they finished in the bottom 4 the previous season. Roughly an extra 20%.

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:20 pm  

Question does this all mean hull kr are buggered?

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:07 pm  

This rumour has been simmering for awhile As a fan I hope it is true but feel we still need to do it via middle8s under our own steam to be sure.Not a fan of middle8s at all even without our experience last year and feel straight 1 up and 1 down is only fair way if not franchised

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:09 pm  

robin1972 wrote:

Question does this all mean hull kr are buggered?

No not if the DUP have any say in the matter. That's definitely off the agenda.

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:23 pm  

I suspect the rfl want toulouse and toronto in within the next couple of years and will quite happily sacrifice an established team or two to do it

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:08 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I suspect the rfl want toulouse and toronto in within the next couple of years and will quite happily sacrifice an established team or two to do it

Do you Jake. You must be worried about your club's place then?

Re: 13 teams in super league will it happen : Tue Jun 20, 2017 6:11 am  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

Do you Jake. You must be worried about your club's place then?

Yeah, definitely. I'm sure if it comes down to it they'll have rovers in as the rep team from Hull. Stands to reason doesn't?