Rugby league clubs across all levels of the domestic game have continued to express cautious optimism over an IMG-led shake-up which will scrap automatic promotion and relegation between its top tiers and elevate teams on the basis of an annual grading.
Super League strugglers Wakefield Trinity and ambitious Championship club Barrow Raiders are the latest to indicate their broad support for the proposals, subject to more details of the as-yet-unestablished grading criteria and guarantees about the transparency of the process.
