griff1998 wrote:
Jeez - bottom v top playoffs. Does he really think that the Championship side would beat the $uperleague side ?
May as well just abolish promotion/relegation altogether.
And parachute payments - is that so that the relegated side can have a huge advantage over everyone else in the Championship ?
Dearie me today ..........
Fev recently beat a SL team that was not bottom of the table. I agree about parachute payments though. The big disparity between the SL and the CC is obviously the fact that SL teams are full time and receive the necessary money from Sky to maintain that status. The CC teams currently cannot afford to run a full time squad so the obvious happens more often than not when SL sides meet CC ones. The only way I could see a workable P & R system is for all teams in CC to be full time and receive yearly payments that are not too far behind the money SL clubs receive. Otherwise the leap is too great and we'd end up with either yo yo teams or, worse, a death in the family. Having said that I do agree though that clubs outside of SL are having their ambitions strangled through no fault of their own and dreams of crossing swords with the Wigan's and Leeds' of this world are just that, dreams that are highly unlikely to be fulfilled outside of the occasional Challenge Cup tie.
