At the end of the day if you love your rugby league and love your team nothing beats the game day feelings whether a superleague side or champ 1 and 2. Look at teams like keighley, Hunslet, Batley (no offence) these teams are realisticaly not gonna get a sniff at SL but their fans always turn out because they love their club, which is exactly how i feel about fax no matter what league we're in due to franchise or p&r. Yes the whole things a disgrace but no way am i gonna let those idiots at red hall destroy my passion for my club. All the fans that stay away because of this are missing out on a fax side who are exciting to watch with players who play with pride for the badge and interact with us fans showing just how much it means to them and if we go on to win the grand final the whole town will surely have a feel good factor even if we are in the same league. So lets enjoy what we've got and hope the rfl will finally see sense and wood and lewis will move on.
Quote: nathancroucher "A franchise system may work in Australia but Rugby League a bigger sport over there so that's okay. It does not work in Western Europe.'"
Messers Wood and Lewis need educating to this fact!
I have no problem with expansion. It hurts me to see Gateshead struggling. I love it when South Wales Scorpions and London Scolars beat traditional Heartland teams. I say that because these teams try and do things properly by using local or atleast players who come from that area rather than a heap of Aussies who have no connections. I wish Fax would use more Halifax born or atleast British players.
I see no point in shoving teams like Crusaders, Quins into SL when they are not ready for it off the field. Yes Crusaders have done better this year on and off the pitch. But first Wrexham is just a short drive for many and so more away fans will attend. And where are the Welsh players from Crusaders? Quins how the hell they are existing I will never know and despite bringing through some British talent I do not see them lasting much longer.
Promotion and Relegation should be used and we all have the same points system and Quota. One rule for all! If a team is losing money they should not be allowed to be promoted. Under the present, system Fax could have stayed in SL despite being a joke and having to sell everyone in our last season in SL. How the hell does that do anybody any good? If Bradford, Salford, Quins, Catalans etc finish bottom they should be relegated. It angers me the idiots at Red Hall seem to only think of the SL Clubs and nobodyelse.
Quote: jeffvickers "They'll now say that you must have academy set-up to get in, anyway, superb crowd today, I was waiting 10 minutes in queue to get in turnstile'"
can say was about to set up but not bothered now cant have one from next season.
The word expansion should be replaced in RFL documents by expulsion.
This tends to be something we can all see, yes were not ready, but what if we were, and still couldn't get through this cruddy process. Theres no point in being livid in another 3 years time, it needs sorting now.
I dont personally beleive SL is as good as people make out, and i don't think its impossible not to have a crack and make the grade (stay up)
Yesterdays evacuation at the Shay should also highlight to the RFL that our process although not as slick as it could have been, could have been a lot worse if real and at one of the older grounds, the RFL should really look this seriously, its more than image and PR, some of the SL grounds are atrocious and dangerous in comparison.
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