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| Toulouse celebrate winning the league competition |
The 14 team Championship is the second division of RL in the UK and Europe. Win percentage decides the placings as not all sides could fulfill their scheduled fixtures due to Covid. Some teams are full time but most are only part time. The sport hasn't got the finances to have a fully professional league below the top tier. Rather than do a team by team coverage, I will give a broader assessment.
Working from the bottom up, the two sides being relegated to League One are Oldham and Swinton. These two clubs with a proud history in the sport were clearly the ones that deserved to go down in terms of performance on the field.
The next grouping is for those that didn't make the playoffs, from 7th to 12th. Of those, only London managed to have a win rate exceeding 50%. They and Widnes are the two clubs in this division to recently have played in the Super League elite level.
The top six battle it out to see who can get the one promotion slot allocated to the Championship sides. Two were by far the best. Toulouse and Featherstone. The latter is irked that they played 21 games to just 14 by the French outfit. The fact is Covid has stopped teams traveling to France and the games Toulouse did play involved going to the UK, meaning more travel than the other sides. That's a disadvantage outweighing the fewer games played.
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