A 20 team comp is everything the NRL doesn't need and can't support.
The comp needs to be smaller not bigger.
This is what it should have been years ago when GC were being admitted. It would have created a 12 team comp where you play everyone twice and have weeks off for the origin games.
1. Bris
2. Cows
3. GC Sharks (easy merger at time of new club same colours logo works)
4. Central Coast Knights
5. Canberra
7. Parramatta Panthers (they'd have cried like Wests then got used to it)
8. Western Bulldogs (there's only room for 2 west teams)
9. Sydney Rabbitohs (same as above with red blue green at SFS)
10. Manly
11. St. George Illawarra
12. Warriors
Melb gone. Who would have cared? Nobody. They ended up ruining the NRL anyway with 4 years of cheating.
Radical but this would have worked. Everyone says you can't do these mergers but in history once the protests and crying is over it largely works. ie Wests league, Fitzroy AFL etc
This way there'd only be 5 Syd teams - one inner west, one outer west, one inner city, one shire, one northern syd. Central Coast would have got their team from their own coast area, and the Sharks would have been saved (instead of going bankrupt in next 12 months or so).
Seeing as it's now too late for the 12 team comp we needed we could at least still have a compact 14 team comp:
1. Bris
2. Cows
3. GC
4. Central Coast Knights
5. Canberra
7. Parramatta Panthers
8. Wests Tigers
9. Bulldogs
10. Sydney Rabbitohs
11. Manly
12. St. George Illawarra
13. Warriors
14. Melb
14 teams play each other twice for 26 rds - but still have byes for origin and Sharks gone (inevitable anyway given bankrupt).
