You could divide it into five four-team regional divisions, which’d reduce travel demands/costs a little too.

Home and away vs teams in the same division, home or away vs teams in the other divisions - 22 games. Division winners and three best runners-up in the play-offs.

Or 2 x 10 would be 28 games.

Fiddly, admittedly.

Greed of super league clubs? It’s not like they’re flush with cash and hogging for themselves. Many super league clubs are on the breadline. This is why they always make these seemingly short-sighted decisions, they need cash today.

Super League reserves padding out the gaps in League 1 for one season seems the most likely outcome, hopefully with some money going to the surviving League 1 clubs to help them fulfill the fixtures. Maybe even rejuvenating Newcastle, I think they pulled out of the current structure, maybe a better one draws them back in?

A full restructure for the should then be planned in the next 6-8 months which ties in with IMG grading and provides a fair structure for every pro club, not just the privileged few.