What is the point in having a academy set up and a stadium when rfl are lieing.I really hope sky pull the plug and goes back to the heartlands.I dont care about a french team.Where do the rfl get the money?I glad leeds lost now to the aussies and i dont care about rl wiv them in charge.Bunch of knobbers the RFL.

Why the hell are the RFL so bent and incompetent? Who do Wood and Lewis answer to? We have the RFL involved in Visa Scandals at Crusaders. We have them make a total mess of the Challenge Cup Draw. We have Match Officials who clearly are not being helped or guided by the RFL and Stuart Cummins.We have them badly organize Fixture list that see´s teams go 4 or 5 weeks without a home game!!!Now we have them lieing about Toulouse entry to SL. Have expansion in Wales. Londoe and France. But least have all the teams follow the same rules and knowing what is required of them!

The RFL do not care that a large number of people have lost interest or are losing interest in the game below SL Level. They do not care that people are walking away from the game, due to the RFL´s incompetence and how it has upset many fans. The sooner Wood and Lewis go the better. As said how can Lewis, Wood and co get away with such stupidity, deceitfulness and not have to answer for the decisions they make?

Last Tackle are reporting the news.

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That's the problem. It isn't a "large" number in their eyes. The small number of people watching the game below SL level are expendable.

That's just a rehash of what's on here and in the LE. I'm waiting for RFL's awe inspiring statement

When we get refused a franchise by the RFL we should just resign from the competition en masse and create a new sport, say Rugby with proper scrums or 7 point tries and one point conversions, pick a load of the choicer amateur teams to come with us and let SL have what they want, just SL, then we ban all our players for making the switch to RL on pain of sine die suspensions which effectively dries up a SL player recruitment pool, do a deal with the Aussies and make friends with the RU so we can piggyback on the RFU's off field nous. Then of course we get someone who knows what they are doing to sort out the mess I made.

But seriously, all of us below SL should resign from the competition and just tell the RFL where to go, then start again ala 1895.

We can't afford to do any of that unfortunately. And i say "we" meaning the collective mob that exist outside Super League.

Those are pretty much the exact words to a work Colleague when I read an article on the BBC forum about it....

Our job is to make the decision as hard as we can for the Red Hall numptys. If we're the standout team of the competition over the next few years then even if they do screw us over once more, it'll be painfully obvious to the RL world that they've bugg ered up.

Surely the Championship clubs can do something about this? If it was agreed that Toulouse had to meet the criteria set out for the rest of the Championship clubs in order to be in a position to apply for a franchise (or whatever false name you wish to call it) then aren't the RFL in contravention of this agreement by allowing Toulouse to make an application? And, if indeed, Toulouse were actually informed that they would be allowed to make an application over 12 months ago regardless of whether they met the criteria or not; is that not also in contravention of the agreement? Where do the Championship clubs stand legally on these issues? I would expect ALL the Championship clubs to make a vociferous opposition en masse to the RFL, unless they knew this would happen all along, and in that case, IMO, they are as guilty as the RFL.

The problem is the criteria for the next round of Super League franchises isn't set in stone. They have announced several times the final criteria hasn't been set up yet. All the RFL have to comply with is one team from the championship will come up and that a team in the championship in order to apply has to get to a grand final or win NR Cup. However who says that there isn't another criteria that says a foreign team can apply for super league without meeting this criteria. That way they just move around the initial problem.

Gotta love some people who follow our sport ...................... supposedly.

Our sports governors are out of control.

Like they were saying on the Widnes board. Widnes Vs Fax game in a couple weeks would be a good opportunity to put the fans feelings across?

Widnes fans usually put their feelings accross when we play them. Might make a decent change for them to vent their anger elsewhere.

Somebody needs to say something, its pathetic, those two muppets dont own RL.

I think the problem is that they're in COMPLETE control and don't seem to be accountable to their members. That's where the problem lies, they just do what they want.

Well we fans of Championship clubs are whistling in the wind.

I have already paid for my hotel and flight to Toulouse on April 2.

I shall have a word with a few mates about making a peaceful protest which will hopefully get in the press and on TV.

Watch this space it'll take an old bed sheet or two and a couple of cans of paint. We can boycott all we like but we need to do something more and us Leythers will. What about you Yorkshire puddings?



We can roll over or we can fight this as fans.Our respective chairmans can't as their hands are tied.

Save our game do not just put up with it.

. Just wait till we play Toulouse.

I know that the RFL can do what they want, but it [iwould[/i make it harder for them to publicly justify a decision to grant Toulouse a franchise if they were to come bottom of the league (or at least in a relegation spot). Best way for the other Championship clubs to fight this one off is to make sure we all give them a good stuffing home and away.

I've somehow created an immense hatred towards Toulouse, even though it's not really their fault!

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Nothing there mate, it just goes to my current groups and pages?

Ha! Jeez what a farce.

Flipping heck.

Martyn Sadler (RL Express Journo) has posted on the rlfans.com forum .... "The RFL has now issued a press release stating that Toulouse do indeed have to reach the 2010 Grand Final to apply for a 2012 Super League licence. An RFL official told our correspondent Mike Rylance that they didn't have to, but it seems that the RFL got it wrong." Presuming he's not a doppleganger, it may well be business as usual. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=446965&start=135 Page 10 and page 11

Martyn Sadler (RL Express Journo) has posted on the rlfans.com forum .... "The RFL has now issued a press release stating that Toulouse do indeed have to reach the 2010 Grand Final to apply for a 2012 Super League licence. An RFL official told our correspondent Mike Rylance that they didn't have to, but it seems that the RFL got it wrong." Presuming he's not a doppleganger, it may well be business as usual. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=446965&start=135 Page 10 and page 11

What a great sport. We trust these idiots to make decisions on our future and the very health of our clubs and the sport in general and they can't even make a press release without giving the interviewer the completely wrong impression, nor make a simple challenge cup draw without having to make it twice both without sound on the live feed. What a joke the sport is. And the worse is, all the people in this thread, the one on my board and elsewhere will be vilified for "overreacting". But we've been treated like a shambles.