If it's true that the chairman of championship clubs want two extra teams why not promote two more from C1?
That way everyone wins. It means this season wasn't pointless completely.evens out C1 fixtures.

The problem is that there probably aren't 4 teams in C1 that are ready or even willing to move up right now.

The three Cumbrian teams, York, Doncaster & Keighley I'm sure would love the opportunity.

Opening poster has missed the point.

How many away fans do the Cumbrian clubs bring?

The reason the Championship clubs want us not to be relegated is because of our away support. End of. It's all about money...

Its all about the dum dum dum dum dum dum

Sorry

I don't thinks it's funny.

Was reading it's been estimated the cost to Championship clubs of Bulls and HKR exiting is estimated to be well over £1m

If you think about that, it basically means that in a sense, all their central funding has probably already gone.

This is not BTW an argument to leave Bulls in, rather a request people look at the precarious financial disaster the promotion/relegation is going to cause to all the Championship clubs, before slagging off their chairmen, who have to pay for it all, when they make noises about "restructure". They must be shii tting their pants on these figures.

And a pop at the RFL, who as ever seem to be just flying the entire league structure by the seat of their ample pants. Especially re the lower leagues, you might as well get Mr Micawber to run it.

The third tier is going to be shambolic in 2018. Most of the teams in it have no comparison with even the present configuration of the Bulls, despite that being the lowest ebb in history, and 2018 looks like being a spectacular and major financial shot to the foot by the RFL, who failed to grasp the nettles of the last Bulls meltdown and in the end took the easy but plainly wrong and unfair option, just so they could put off addressing any hard questions for someone else, in another year. 2018 will see these pigeons coming home to roost

Whereabouts did you read that? Genuinely interested how they get to that figure (I wouldn't think a home game against each plus Summer Bash revenue would come to just that)

I've been catching up on a pile of reading and am pretty sure it was one of (many) articles in 40-20. They didn't give any workings out though, just said "estimated to cost in excess of".

I think its safe to say it will cost the clubs a lot. If I was trying to do a fag packet costing, what about the sale of season tickets, in a league where the big dogs of Hull KR and Bradford Bulls will (or now won't) be coming to town?

Then there is stuff like sale of advertising, hospitality and sponsorship which is a lot easier when there are tasty fixtures. Whatever it ends up as, it is major bad news for them

Won't it mean £1 million between all the clubs?

In other words, a bit less than £100K each. That sounds much more realistic.