im injoying my rugby to. i think toulouse will get straght in to SL they want 2 french teams so the french international side gets better so these more comp for England. we cant control it, we can only hope.

i believe the town of halifax can provide a decent super laegue team given time and the correct management

You still need someone with pots of money to put in ,mind you if your so certain you must have the money. I hope so would be nice.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Success breeds success.
Bradford only got where they are by getting on a huge wave of enthusiasm in 1996 (helped by a Wembley Final followed by another) which gave them credibility and a feel good factor which like sheep people followed.
That included folk with money, human nature is people want to be associated with success not failure.
So you never know, yes we need to be more professional off the field, we are getting there but I think we have still have some way to go yet, won't say why but I do.
We do need a backer like Hull KR and Widnes have and its the ONLY reason Huddersfield are rising - Ken Davy and his brass.

Where would we get these players?

They'd be cast-offs from the incumbent SL teams and some from the relegated team/s. ATM, we don't have a reserve team or academy, (yes Col, I do know there's a scholarship), and, therefore, we aren't won't be bringing young players through. Isn't that a criteria of a licence?

we could train them up from congo or places like that

Crap there squad has only got 2 welshman in, rubbish ground and they won,t win many dis year.

BUT THE RFL WILL KEEP THEM IN.

Oh Deary Me... nakedleague.com/2009/04/caption-competition/

Oh Deary Me... nakedleague.com/2009/04/caption-competition/

HA!

I don't understand all this negativity towards Celtic to be honest.

Lets look at the round of franchising. Who else was the league going to put in instead of Celtic?

Us? Half built stadium and a history of money problems. Until that stand is finished and we can prove ourselves over at the very least a three year period financially then we have no chance (and had no chance last time round).

Widnes? OK they have a backer now and the stadia and fans are potentially there but Widnes were in administartion 6 months previous to the franchise period so why should a club that was so badly run get a place over a well run club? Again they should have at least a three year probation period were they can prove that they are financially sound and that they won't go belly up chasing the dream. I can just hear the screams from Widnes fans about our financial plight a couple years ago if we had got the place over them.

Leigh? Again stadia is there (although they were at HP pre-franchise) but not the fans unfortunately and not knowing much about their business plan it obviously was not as strong as Celtics as by the sounds of it they "predicited" their businiess plan with the move to LSV. Plus they had their chance one time round and failed utterly miserably so other should be allowed to try.

Fev? Same kind of boat as us, stadia is not up to scratch and as they were just coming up from NL2 it was massively unlikely that they could get the finaince together to compete with current SL clubs.

Not sure who else applied but those above were the main contenders against Salford and Celtic and Salford were a shoe in and Celtic IMO edged it over those above.

One other thing is that although they may have had RFL bias backing and as a development team were allowed more overseas players at least they started from the bottom and have worked their way up through the leagues. Why is there not this hatred/bitterness/jealousy towards Catalan who were thrown straight into SL without the franchise system, without going through the leagues and at the expensive of a "traditional", "heartland" club..

While I understand the arguements against all the other clubs getting a franchise, the one thing I will argue against is the fact that Leigh messed up in 2005, therefore someone else should be given a chance... The whole idea of franchises is that clubs should be judged over 3 years, not 1!

I don't think any of the clubs named above should have got a franchise, however I also think that going to 14 clubs was a mistake as well.

but.. it is obviously not the main or sole reason either.