lol your the silly man. Batley could have applied for a license, it didn't mean they met the criteria. Don't think just because you applied you ticked every box. You definitely didn't. You applied for a license for the start of the franchise period for 3 years. You were denied game over. Doesn't mean you were on reserve just incase a team drops out.

Fev chose to tick more boxes and put a better application together

Watch the announcement on you tube when the licenses were awarded , Nigel Wood confirmed that 2 Championship teams applied for a license and only Halifax were good enough to be thrown in the Mix and met the criterea, Barrows was not up to scratch. YES THATS RIGHT HALIFAX MET THE CRITERIA/b], He also went onto state that the RFL had the right to revoke anyones license and replace them with another team, Basically this was to appease fans due to the Wakefield and Castleford ground issue, Go and watch it as it is firmly inbedded in my memory, when asked why fax were not in and wakey were it was said that the financial forecasts were speculative, WE TICKED EVERY BOX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really do need to go and have a look you bitter man.

The minimum criteria for a Championship club to be awarded a Super League licence areTICK Do you remember this one ?. Drop goal or something i remember.

Oh look, dont let the facts get in the way though.

As Harry Hill would say,
I like FevFan76,
I like faxhali,
So how do I decide,
FIIIIGHT.

Doesn't say which team or a failed bidder etc

Yeah I vaguely remember the drop goal (seems such a long time ago, we won plenty since then), I think came after the interruption of Fax fans trying to burn the stand down

Bitter????

Bitter about what, absolutely nothing to be bitter about. Neither of us are in super league, RL will most likely keep Bradford in. Far better to be a Fev fan at the moment than any other team outside of SL so why bitter.

Shifted ?

What do you mean - "shifted" ?

My understanding of the word "shifted" is that it was somewhere and now it's somewhere else.

Where else was it ever going to be ?

Oxford Dictionary

Bitter - Speaking / posting without first seeking facts

lol Really

I think as far as Rovers are concerned this is a win / win situation.

At the least it keeps some pressure on the RFL by reminding then of Fev achievements both in the Championship over the last few years and more recently against current SL opponents in the CC.

Whilst there is no chance of them replacing Wigan even if they had beaten them that is not the case with Cas come the next round of applications.

If an earlier than expected oppourtunity presented itself then Rovers are saying, look here we are with finacial clout to back us which out of all the so called boxes to tick seems to be at the forefront of the rest of them at the moment.
It worked for Widnes why not Fev.

As a Fax fan I am more concerned that it was Feisal Nahaboo who stated this.
Correct me if i'm wrong but it was Fax who first introduced Feisal to Rugby League and he did sponser us for a short while.

He is now backing Rovers so having seen close up, first hand both clubs my question is what did he see at Fax, if anything that he did not like so he chose to go to Fev.

Might be nothing, simply that they were the top side in the comp, but it leaves me a bit uneasy that all was not quite right at the Shay

Oh ...... really ?

Unlikely, since it was known full well at the time of the draw that Bramall Lane would be being relaid at the weekend of the semi-final.

Don Valley is our registered ground, not Bramall Lane. We've played Superleague games there before and we could do it again.