www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... p-1-entry/ Oops. Probably whack them straight into super league in two years time! Stringent checks and vetting process - who they kidding! They have alternatives, who probably aren't as well placed as Northampton, who, as shown by stringent checks and vetting were the best placed club to join the championship! Get that foot out of your mouth Mr Rimmer!

www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... p-1-entry/ Oops. Probably whack them straight into super league in two years time! Stringent checks and vetting process - who they kidding! They have alternatives, who probably aren't as well placed as Northampton, who, as shown by stringent checks and vetting were the best placed club to join the championship! Get that foot out of your mouth Mr Rimmer!

How these idiots get and manage to keep these well paid jobs is a complete mystery to me?

It really is quite incredible

That would be the same stringent checks and vetting process that missed what was happening at Crusaders and Bradford, I presume?!

Ralph Rimmer.....great name !!!

Brother of Arnold J....

I met him years ago when he was a development officer,he is a Richard Cranium

northampton will get good crowds, best in champs one.
was a good crowd when fax played there a few years back



















so what else did the RFL look at?

I wouldn't like to suggest that perhaps the local Rugby Union people may have leaned onto the Football people who were backing this idea...

Me too, amazes me that he keeps getting the jobs he does.

Rimmer by name.... Rimmer by nature?

Nigel Woods Rugby League CV:

Halifax RLFC - relegated from SL, nearly killed club. Failure and embarrassment.

Crusaders RL - allowed rule breaks to push them into SL when not ready. Ignored rules on visas, club nearly killed off. Failure and embarrassment.

Bradford Bulls - apparently they are a beacon in SL and all clubs should be like them. Chuck money at them in vain hope no one realises you made a pigs ear of "assessing" their licence application. Then fart around in the vain hope the situation will sort itself. Failure and embarrassment.

Northampton - announce them as a new championship club without actually checking they can fulfill their requirements. Club dead. Failure and embarrassment.

Numerous clubs ignored or bullied along the way. Failure and embarrassment.

Time to go Mr Wood. Step forward Mr Hetherington!

Wow, the future of our game is so bright it stings

Wasn't Rimmer part of the Giant Seagulls debacle ??

The whole game is buggered whether it be SL, Championship or Internationals. The RLEF a sister organization of the RFL that is supposed to promote and develop the game in Europe has just seen the Italians allegedly pull out of the Euro Shield. Germany are struggling to survive due to Union people employed by the RLEF! We have the academy game on its knees as is the summer conference league. Is anybody going to call these fools to ask why the game is in a mess? No thought not

When will the penny drop, that RL is the greatest REGIONAL SPORT. Outside the traditional heartland of UK and France who is really interested? I have been watching the game for nearly 30 years and in that time the game has been taken to all kinds of places in this country, with no success.

Expansion does not work, stop trying to compete with Football and RU, and get back to developing the sport on the M62 corridor and Cumbria. Help the two clubs in the OL postcode especially, as the travelling costs are going to kill them next year.( have a look at some of the SL players who originate from this area).