Premiership II plans announced

It predates the Championship by at least one season.

The reduction from 16 teams in the old National 1 to 12 for the first season of the championship was only decided halfway through the season.

Which meant none of the sides in the old Nat 1, or Nat 2 as was, knew what they were playing for.

I do no recall the RFU discussed parachute payments publicly, either.

But, I believe at least one relegated side received one.

None of the relegated teams received a parachute payment. However, the 3 demoted teams, Esher, Sedgley Park and Newbury were given a share of £90K to offset the massive loss in central funding. If you remember there was also a huge drop in funding for level 3 for the following season. I believe this is the season your club got shafted along with the afore mentioned DEMOTED clubs.

I thought the Welsh Super Rygbi Cymru teams were being lined up to join Prem II but it is a Cup competition under discussion.

Don’t you love a professionally run league competition?

Maybe one day The Championship will be one.

WOW

That is outrageous.  Shocking. So as Skalpy clarified earlier in the thread, what was the point of the re-organisation back in 2008/09. 

What has been achieved? 

The Bedford and FDR Chairman Geoff Irving (At the time), his stance and long term view was bang on the money back at the height of the negotiations. It was always going to be, as he insisted, a once in a generational opportunity for the game to get it right for the pyramid structure (note the qualification the game, not clubs) and so he made clear what the red lines for the FDR/Club negotiations were and that was an all comprehensive , conclusive and binding promotion and relegation protocol which needed approving long term before any agreement on Championship funding structure. 

His mantra was, it’s the Clubs money so it should be shared/negotiated and  done on behalf of  the whole of Club rugby’s interest. 

Well done the ‘Gang of Four’ Nearly 20 years on this still rolls on to the detriment of the game. 

Sad, very sad.

All the best 

ST 

Jan 4

Jan 11 England U20

Jan 18 London Scottish (Championship)

Jan 25 Caldy (Championship)

Feb 1

Feb 8

Feb 15

Feb 22

Mar 1 Chinnor (Not the Prem Cup)

Mar 8

Mar 15

Mar 22 Coventry (A) (Championship)

Mar 29 Hartpury  (Championship)

Later dates added:

Apr 6 Cornish Pirates (A) (Championship)

Apr 12 Doncaster (Championship)

Apr 20 Nottingham (A) (Championship)

Apr 26

May 3 Ealing Trailfinders (Championship)

May 10 London Scottish (A) (Championship)

May 17 Bedford (Championship)

May 24 Ampthill (A) (Championship)

May 31 Chinnor (A) (Championship)

Also hosting:

Mar 22 England U19 v Japan U19

32 weekends and a Fixture Secretary (up to 6 teams in the 70s) and a flourishing fixture exchange PLUS the annual away coach trip (usually London with a collection on the Bayswater Road at 11pm, peeing out of the coach door in transit or onto the drive shaft)

......and then there was the best selling book "I went on Tour" with 32 blank pages

Happy New Year all