With teams like Salford, Widnes, (?), Celtic, Halifax, Leigh, and Haven and no promotion this year it will mean that maybe one of them will get a franchise if they go to 14 clubs and no doubt the other one will go to Toulouse.
That then means that over the next 3 years one of the others plus any team that may come out of the NL2, such as Oldham, Doncaster or Barrow, will all be fighting to try and get that one place in 2012. I fear it is just another throw away line to pacify the NL clubs, along with the increase in prize money for the NL title, and I'm sure many will have jumped to accept it.!!!!
They are selling the game down the river I'm afraid and we are all standing around watching it happen.