Slippery Tiger :
"PierrotLL" :
Relegation means you will lose everything if you pause the game for a time, and that's really unpleasant.
Surely that is more realistic though? If you don't turn up then you won't do so well then you may well be relegated.
I fully support relegation of say the bottom two teams. It is not as if this is a quick process either and you would have to 'pause the game' for a good while to drop even one championship level.
We do indeed have relegation in the Northern Hemisphere, but the Southern Hemisphere's Super 15 does not. So as the World Cup shows you may have a point!
But seriously I can see your point, but even then I do not think it would make much difference in the 'dead accounts' scenario.