Agreed Max.  It is so boring hearing people whine about the mail all the time.  Personally I do not read any paper regularly but find the Guardian and Mirror insanely laughable.  I do however understand that we are all different and some people read such organs of the press. 

I do not have the need to make infantile insults about the paper or these who read it. 

As it happens the DM sports coverage is very good. They broke the cheats story - they broke the football super league story. 

Any club rugby fan owes the DM a debt of gratitude.

There’s something about your post that makes me think you’re confusing “a logical argument” with “some right wing rubbish” but I can’t quite nail it.

If we are chucking ideas around about ringfencing and the state of the game in general...

How about 3 up and 3 down each year?

And/Or, how about giving a newly promoted newbie a 3 year guarantee of survival to allow for investment?

Look again at a partial/full draft system. I know things American and Sport are not popular at the moment but hey.....

Stop trying to control things with financial constraints. Let market forces do their work over time.

I initially liked the idea of a 3-year guarantee for the promoted team but on reflection I’m not sure it’d make much difference.

If the promoted team is one of the 13 (as is usual), they usually survive in the Prem anyway. If not, the 11th placed team just bounces straight back up instead.

If we’re being completely off the wall, it would almost make more sense to also make it a condition of the parachute payment that  the relegated team has to stay down for 3 seasons. That would allow a different team to come up.

However, there is no way any of the 13 will agree to that.