Just make it a 16 team league. No messing about.

Absolutely agree, home or away match every week, September to May.

I think there are five teams in Nat 1 that could readily stand up to the test and seeing as the Championship is destined to be semi-professional (thanks RFU) this is not a bad call.

If you play into May there are 38 weeks.

Nat 1 worked well with 16 teams and stopping at the end of April.

I doubt there would be many cricket scores - Ampthill and Richmond were not running them up in their last seasons in National 1, even against the sides that would be left out. It is not as though the promoted sides would not use whatever extra funding came with promotion to recruit.

I admit that an Ealing A side beat Rosslyn Park in the pre-Season, but I would think they might beat several of the Championship sides.

30 matches per season isn't exactly cramming into 36 weekends is it? (35 even if you take out Christmas weekend, which I know a lot of folk would like to keep).

How many postponements do we get these days? Not that many, surely?

Supporters want real, competetive, meaningful, matches, against teams they haven't already seen two, three, four times already.

The argument re. diluting the RFU handout has largely gone away too, now.

Maybe I miscounted (was doing it roughly, in my head, so could well be) but 38 weeks makes the argument even stronger if that's the case (Further, I now note the Prem season finishes on the first weekend of June this year).

16/14 teams makes no difference just getting a league that is suitable and sustainable. Don’t think that is too much to ask. 

Maybe you should look through impartial eyes occasionally rather than with whatever issue you have with this league. It is rugby and I believe we all want what is best for the game

Good luck with that.

I have said this many times before when we were 16, Blues would have youngsters from the academy mixed up with some 1st and 2nd choice and still win with 60 odd points. These games were not as well supported as everyone knew the result and it was a question of how many.

If we go to 14 it should be either 2 down or 1 down and play off for 13th v 2nd.

Our local BBC station covers five football teams from Prem League to League Two.

Last week international break allowed for commentary of Ampthill v Bedford, and the non league football as they call it, Boreham Wood.

Today Boreham Wood travel 5 miles to local rivals Barnet in the FA Cup. Knockout football.

Rugby League has Challenge Cup.

Yet the best team sport…looks second rate regards cup competitions in England. A knockout format is always my preference, upsets in rugby are rare. 

The only question, would a cup mean a 14 team Championship. 

I also have not worked out how to reduce 70 clubs, if we include National 1, and three National 2 leagues into a competition. But I have the weekend and some A4 paper…laughs.

Create a Championship league of 14 clubs and include promotion and relegation (1 or 2 up and down each season). Easy-peasy!

I would support a ProD2 vs Champ competition as i would a Prem A vs Champ set-up - think it would benefit alot of clubs as i'd imagine gates for this would be at least on par with league attendances.

In the future i'd like to see a sort of RFU Cup competition throughout the levels like football

- RFU Cup (Levels 1 & 2) 

- RFU Trophy (Level 3 & 4)

- RFU Shield  (Level 5)

- RFU Bowl (Level 6)

Would probably add abit of excitment/financial benefit to the clubs partaking also.

The whole point of the current restructure was to decrease the number of games - and that meant the 14 team leagues did not have a cup. The lower level league, with 12 sides, do have cups - even though that means more games and travel than before - but let's not mention that.

Cups, unless only within one level, also mean mismatches.

Yet that's what lots of people want - the opportunity to test themselves against teams from a higher level and a good day out, regardless of the outcome.