www.loverugbyleague.com/news_158 ... -2015.html

www.loverugbyleague.com/news_158 ... -2015.html

Sorry read it a number of times anything that take so much reading is to complicated, hope I am wrong but feel this could be worse than what we have now.

The jist is:
Top 8 in SL enter round 6 of Challenge Cup
No change in SL salary Cap
£1mil cap in championship
No parachute payment for London & Bradford
Kingstone Championship will have 12 clubs & Kingstone League 1 will have 14
Dual Reg possibly could be abolished

OK, so help me out with this one if I've got it wrong, to win the Superleague next season...

Regular season - Home 11 games, Away 11 games + Magic wknd.
Super 8 - 7 games: positions 1 to 4 play home games against the 5-8, the away games against the rest of the top 4.
Playoff semi final home and away - 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd.
Grand final.

Correct??

i see the playoffs have been sorted... 2 games and then the final.

That sounds about right to me, i have read it 3 times now and am trying to fathom what happens. It is so complicated and am sure all will become clearer as it unfolds especially the "Million Pound Game"

So a team progressing as far as the SL semis could potentially play the same team 7 TIMES in the same season if the CC draw went that way. Nuts!

Like the semi final format though, much better.

The play off's are good under the new structure but the rest is a pile of bull excreta.

Sorry if I'm being slow or missing something - there's a lot to take in and it's a hot day - but how does that work? The top four can't all play each other away

As clear as mud isn't it?

The top 4 of the top 8 will play 4 home matches and 3 away so would be as follows:

Top 8:
Warrington, Wigan, Saints,Leeds,Widnes,Cas,Hudds,Catalans

Warrington Games:

Warrington vs Catalans
Wigan vs Warrington
Warrington vs Saints
Hudds vs Warrington
Warrington vs Leeds
Widnes vs Warrington
Warrington vs Cas

You carry your points forward from the regular season so it would obviously help you in the long run if you had a good campaign so hopefully no more meaningless games!

This really isn't that complicated. Not much here that we didn't know anyway, I'm right behind these changes. Not convinced about the changes to the Challenge Cup though, win four games and you've won the thing? Seems to devalue it a bit for me.

Yup, that makes no sense at all.