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MOM Tonks

Lovely stuff. We look forward to welcoming you all.

Well here is my 4 penneth.

Twinning clubs should be ashamed' as should chairman of NON RELEGATION CLUBS who instigated this mindlessly short sighted initiative which is self evidently wrong.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for this ludicrous idea which is worse than wrong. It is almost as though our game has a death wish.

Folk like me who have been watching my club for over 50 years will not be replaced by kids in Leigh Fax or wherever to watch NON RELAGATION CLUB reserves when if they are interested in watching the game they could watch their nearest NON RELEGATION CLUB first team.

part quote.
"greed of the Super League clubs and a desire for self preservation on the Championship clubs."

That's how I see it generally speaking in the worse case scenario with the more selfish clubs.

I have been told that the RFL did not want this and not all the SL clubs but the other (as it turned out)
majority of SL clubs voted it in.

This begs the question who really is running the game and pulling the strings when important decisions are being made that can have a serious effect on other clubs that they give no respect or thought to???

Likewise the SL clubs that chose to scrap a big part of their junior set up must have had some "off the radar" dialogue with their prospective partners "before" the vote was taken to make sure that it did not leave them short.

Maneuverings behind closed doors???

If this "speculation" on my part was the case is it legal to do so.
Even if it is, is it in a sporting sense ethically and morally right to do so.

Anyway as you say, all good stuff to have a natter about.

York City Knights 12 Halifax 56, the knights have several players injured already and if we didnt have the D/R players I dont think we would have had enough players, most Y.C.K. fans dont like the link ups but without it we would be in the mire.