ah come on fella were not that bad and have good reason to be suspicious and cynical while NW is involved in RFL... Do we think we should get in YES
Do we think well meet the criteria YES Will we back them all the way and further YES will we support them even if we dont YES
Its YES YES YES, but its not our decision and over the last few years we have had had our hearts ripped out several times by people that dont care like we do. I think we are going to need further expansion of the comp, and a team or two to be told to do what we Leigh, and Widnes have had to do and get our foundations in order and come back.... Its going to be out of our hands...

Unless as Littlerich says you manage to dominate the playing side of things with 3 consequtive GF wins then no

Widnes are the Championship club the RFL want and the one they will get

agree.
would love to see fax back there but dont think will due to what RFL want.
the letter about grounds was just the warning RFL put out to ensure some get work done so they dont have to promote more than one team.

true..

their clearly paving a way for widnes for the next round in super league....u telling me that if wed have won the northern rail cup this year wed have got the long feature on the super league show on the bbc this wkend?!! biggin them up.......no chance!lol

toulouse will be next...followed by gateshead, unless we really shake things up by winning loadser trophies over next 2.5 years, and keep progressing off field.

theres no way our crowds are gonna skyrocket unless we get back in super league. give us a chance and i belive we would suceed. with three years to get better and better.

all we can do is keep supporting and hope!!!!

starting with fev on friday! =blue[size=200COME ON FAX!!!![/size

If the progress off the field as well as on it continues at the current steady rate as it's currently at, we'll get in without many worries I.M.O.

We NEED to win the trophies available, simple, that equals the general public's/business sponsorship's interest in the club, raise it's profile and provide income.

The stadium as I see it is out of the club's hands, but finger's crossed.

Retain the current management & board, C.E.O. things are moving nicely.

Some SL club's should be looking over their shoulder's in this current finanacial climate, combined with their delapidated stadia.

I would say yes we have a chance, we will be in a better postion that a few current super league clubs by mid season 2011. We are progressing very well both off and on the field, despite attendances not being as high as we would like we are up on last year, and we dont give away tickets like other clubs to boost their attendences (maybe we should play their game?).
With regard to the financial backer, would we want someone who has overall control like widnes, barrow, celtic? i certainly wouldnt what would happen when the owners love for the club goes or it begins to cost them more than they want to put in? Celtic is a prime example. Having a few people putting abit of money in, coupled with increased attendances aswell as commercial/sponsorship is the best way to go.

Yes Widnes seems at the PRESENT time the club that most people expect to go up, however 2 years is a long time, we have a lot of rugby to play between now and then. If our own supporters dont believe that we can, how do we expect new/old supporters to believe that we can get into super league.

Yes we have a chance provided we get to the Grand Final at least once hopefully more, keep increasing the crowds and really push that new stand as well as making sure the stadium is well kept (not with the current regime it won't but lets hope CMBC get a proper stadium manager in).

I get annoyed that people are saying it has to be Widnes - yer they are in front of us with their ground and winning the NRC but we will catch them up on those two, yer their crowds are bigger but they have not had the depths of desapir to suffer like we have since 1999 really. The main difference is they have a money man, that should not come into it as rich chairman can be short term it should be looked at in the long term = sustainable. Plus Widnes are like us near existing SL clubs.
I think we and Widnes should be both be looked at for admission against existing SL clubs that fail to meet the SL criteria.

As for Toulouse, why?
So it further justifies having Catalans in and give them a derby?
They don't have the ground, they don't have the support (inflated figures are given deffo) and they will be yet another expensive trip for fans to make, they are unlikeley to go to both French clubs have the RFL thought of that?

Should the potential for AWAY support not be taken into account, ask Leeds, Bradford, Cas and Huddersfield who they would rather play Fax or Toulouse??
No brainer, 1K minimum would go from Halifax.

Maybe Fax should start doing like other clubs and add 500 on the gates???

I agree mate fax and widnes should replace salford and wakey.

Maybe we should offer the RFL false promises, its worked for some clubs in the past. We will increase our attendances

Well that Dome going on top of our roof to keep the rain out should help. Oh and apparently Gordon "fkn" Ramsey is taking over the Catering Contract and Laura Ashley are doing out the Exec Boxes. What with Dubai Holdings coming in as our main backers next season, how could they possibly turn us down?

That is the general consensus.

Wakey have had a decent enough run in SL (since 1999) without bringing much to SL, other than defeating the odds (with Kear at the helm). I like wakey as a club, they are a lot like us, but fair is fair, they are no better a club than ours, and our stadium, even in its current incomplete state - is better than Belle Vue (by a country mile) so we should be in SL at their expense.

It is a similar story for widnes and Salford. Salford are seen as a development team, being in Greater Manchester - on that basis - that area has been a RL development area for over 100 years. Its not like the GM area hasnt had spells of success in the past, especially Swinton. The GM area has had ample opportunity to develop RL, with little success. Salford are in SL purely as they are a GM club, and this is just garbage. In addition, they are no closer to the completion (or starting) of their new stadium than two years ago.

So I feel that Widnes and ourselves could be the ones to replace Salford and Wakefield, with Toulouse being the potential spanner in the works. I would only like to see Toulouse admitted as a replacement for Celtic...which will not happen.