The game appears to be run by people who have very little idea what is happening at grass root levels and have made plans for the future of the game which is widely accepted as an experiment only... many fans do not understand or believe this will work. Time will tell but the amount of fans lost in the process could be catastrophic.

The RFL & BARLA have been apart as long as I can remember. RL was dying because of the lack of promotion & relegation. RL has always innovated & experimented.

When is the promotion, 2 SL Teams with go down into Championship (tier 2) and five teams from the Championship(tier 2) will go down into Championship 1(tier 3) In my eyes that is all relegation. Can we have this conversation at the end of 2015 please.

you forgot about the 1 team to be promoted from Championship 1 (tier 3) to the championship (tier 2)

It's the race to the bottom. Welcome to Britain 2014.

Tbf there are bottoms and then there are bottoms. I'd reckon some of 'em are worth a race to

Hypothetical situation, but if we used all the SL2 cap on home grown players that would be (£1m / £40K = ) 25 players that could be SL standard. So I would expect in plan B to see a major focus on home grown, keeping what we have and getting back what we can. Leon would be my favourite tho not sure of his contract status with the Dragons.

Think he may be OCC this year but, as suggested elsewhere, I think he may well get another gig in SL - and I certainly wouldn't leave somewhere like Canet before I had to..

When Leon signed for Catalan it was 2 years with option of a 3rd year.This is his 3rd year there so he will be,unless he's already agreed to stay put, OOC at end of this year.

The details are like instructions on Ikea furniture, I get bored before half way & give up reading. I haven't worked out what happens at the end of this season, apart from 2 teams look like they will go down. I doubt it will spoil my enjoyment of RL much. Tweaking of leagues won't change the quality on offer much, it will lead to the bankruptcy of some clubs, not much change there then. Until someone cracks the media nugget RL will stumble along as it has for years.

Someone at the club told me he was off to Cas.

Much closer than 1.8 million v 300 K as it currently is

Yes it is heavily stacked, but any more than being completely impossible unless you move a hundred miles south?



Not forgetting it was the SL clubs who have voted this through

So how many clubs have been promoted via licencing?

They just wont listen, of course we could just relegate London and the Bulls and shut the trap door completely forever, I'm sure the Bulls fans would be much happier with that

Who is this "we" that could just relegate teams, and why are you sure the Bulls fans would be much happier with your idea?



To be "happier", you'd have to be "happy" to begin with. Where the fsck would you find these happy Bulls fans? I haven't seen a happy Bulls fan in about 5 years!

No, it's not completely impossible. But I'd bet good money that if neither Bradford or London are promoted back into SL at the end of next season, as they're the one's with the parachute payments and most likely to be the ones in the mix, then you won't see any team promoted while this system is in place.



It's simply the RFL's way of bringing back P&R without really bringing it back.

' We ' being the sport of RL



Then its about time you lowered your happiness levels, I'm sure when you start winning again next year and the prospect of replacing Wakey or HKR in SL beckons then some of you will start feeling ' happy ' again, if you dont, then tough, you wont deserve to get back up

Fair enough, dump you down with us and shut the door, I'm sure that'll make you delirious

I think I've found the club's psychologist.

As the Bulls and their fans are part of the sport of RL, "we" don't think so.





Difficult not to whenever I see you've posted again







And what we "deserve" is relevant to getting back up how, exactly? What if we get back up, but due to inadequate happiness levels, don't deserve to? What then? Eh?

Oooh look FA going all ' smokey ' on me





I'd suggest the Bulls change their run out music to ' jilted John ' given the levels of self pity displayed on this board, it really is quite pathetic, so given your fragile nature I'll leave you to it, god forbid any of us mere mortals actually beat the Bulls next year, the skriking we'd hear would be unbearable

No. I think I would need to see peer-reviewed, certified happiness audit data over a 2 year cycle before I could accept any conclusions based on our happiness, or otherwise. Sorry



On the other hand, there is a depression scoring system called PHQ-9 which has widespread use.



Which to use....

Self pity? Nah, you'd be hard pressed to find a more stoic and resilient bunch.





been called a lot of things but "fragile"? Erm...





You won't, you love it on here. Where else can you have a sensible convo?

Steve , stop winding the Bulls fans up , your carer is looking for you .





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