Todays attendance

Quote: We are a heartland team, we deserve to be there "Viking John wrote:Hardly squeaky bums and sour grapes. We can hit average attendance without freebies, you are hardly a threat to a Widnes Super League application.

* You have a crumbling stadium
* No youth set up
* No reserve squad competing
* Poor attendances
* No finances
* All you have is a first team

Widnes on the other hand:

* Have a top quality stadium that can host Super League Games & Challenge Cup Semi Finals
* Under 15 academy squad
* Under 16 academy squad
* Under 18 academy squad
* Under 21 academy squad
* Reserve squad
* Highest attendances in Championship
* Stong financial and business plan

It's all well and good you lot shouting about how you have ticked another box, but you are ticking the wrong kind of boxes if you want long term success and stability.

Leigh are the closest threat to Widnes' Super League application, but they fall short on a few key areas and won't be in this time round. I do see tem realistically in Super League in 2016.

I also hear people banging on about "We are a heartland team, we deserve to be there". Well if these so called ‘heartland’ clubs doesn't start to invest in heartland youth then there will be nothing left of the 'heartland'.

You can't just run a first team and no youth set-up and expect long term stability, it's madness! Bringing through top class British youth should be top priority for every club.

That's called having a modern, professional stadium. Still an amateur looking set up if people are handing over cash at a turnstile instead of a more controlled professional outlet via a ticket office. Even Whitehaven don't accept cash on the turnstiles, they have a hut outside the ground you have to buy your ticket from.

Yeah, only when there is a free ticket though
Ha, ha, you can have all that and more but while ever your big ex super league stars freeze on the big occasion and let liddle o'l Batley, a team of local lads spank yer bums then you really aint got nothing now have you.