So, you know of Paul Cullen then

The structure of the championships next season should have been in place before the current season even began - the RFL knew one team would be leaving to join the SL and should have anticipated the team kicked out would want to join the championships

can anyone justify it not being decided yet, if you need a lot of time to decide then start earlier

if you wanted to kill off the second and third tier, the current attitude would certainly help!

Well considering they haven't made the decision yet , and essentially they have only recently started considering it , they are having to rush into a rash decision , as Hopie said , all this should have been sorted months ago at the start of this season, this isn't about Leigh , this is about all the clubs , and the lack of respect shown these clubs by the governing body

Very funny

Presumably they did not foresee Toulouse leaving the competition, or the problems Crusaders would suffer. If it was as simple as you are making out, obviously things would have been sorted by now, they haven't just not acted for no reason.

Well if they didn't for see it who did , Toulouse leaving is an RFL decision ?



Similarily with the Crusaders , you seriously don't think they didn't know the financial position months before the licence decision ?



They hoped that one or two expansion clubs would have financial backing to enable them to join the Championship , it would appear there is. ' interest ' , just no money to back it up



They announced a restructuring in the hope something would turn up , it hasn't

Hang on, you are complaining at them for not announcing the new structure of the lower leagues because they dont have the necessary guarantees in place at the moment, whilst at the same time criticising them for announcing a restructuring without having the necessary guarantees in place at the time?

We don't need a restructure , we just need more clubs , and the current clubs need help , not gimmicks



As I said they announced a restructure in the hope something would turn up , but what they hoped would turn up hasn't , now they haven't enough clubs to restructure , something definate for a changed would be nice

So what would have happened if they had announced a structure based on the assumption that Toulouse would be leaving the Championship and Crusaders would be entering, and then Toulouse had performed better and decided to stay or Crusaders had gone bust and disappeared altogether? Answer: they would have had to scrap the announced structure, we'd be in an argubly worse position than we currently are in and the whole thing would be a complete mess.

You ever wonder why there were no clubs, none at all, none since London Skolars 8 years ago and none in the 108 years before that who wanted to make the jump from the amateur leagues to the semi-pro ones?

You aren't listening/reading properly , it was the RFL that decided Toulouse wouldn't remain in the Championship , as for the Crusader issue , that is irrelevant , we are discussing new , more clubs , not existing ones ( especially ones that have been doomed from the start ) , they should either have checked up on suitability from the start , or been positive and be prepared to finance a club themselves

We are discussing more, new clubs, but even you cant be so dumb as to not understand that they will be joining existing clubs and to decide the structure for a league including more, new clubs, you need to know how many old, existing clubs you are starting with.