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! [sizeCOME 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

To make the competition really European, get the French TV money and more matches on TV. The Europeanisation is a one way street, and it is the street to make of the SL one of the grand European competition while it was until recently a regional competition snubbed by Southerners in England.
I understand that some fans of good CC clubs are upset by this development, but let me give me a comparison.

Today a reporter from ITV commenting Le Tour reminded the viewers that initially it was a national race from France and now it is dominated by foreigners. For sure French would like to see French win the Tour, but if this race has become the race number one in the World it is by welcoming the best riders of the world. French are proud of this race, even if French riders do not win as much as in the early days...

The SL is different obviously and in particular in the fact that English clubs will always be in the topflight of SL (at least in the next 70 years). Having a great European competition will bring money, interest in the South of England and increased TV. This rise in profile will naturally dwindle down to the CC which will become the anti-chamber of SL (and hopefully P&R will be reinstated at some point).

I have no illusion of convincing you as I understand that you are likely to be frustrated by the difference between the performance of your team on the field and its chance to go in SL. However, I would like to state my conviction that the Europeanisation of the SL will be for the greatest good of RL in England. I expect crowds to increase over time and the interest and TV coverage of CC to increase.

I agree that expansion is good for the game. But this should be seperate to the natural progression of teams from the games heartlands. If a team from Europe are ready then they should be in, but not at the exspense of a current team.

I cant see any reason stopping all three of Widnes, Toulouse and Fax going into SL next. Us and Widnes replacing Salford and Wakefield/Celtic, and Toulouse going in as an expansion side.

Just a thought but...........
How many football Clubs come from London?
How many RL clubs come out of Sydney?

Cant understand why being in W Yorks should go against us, i would call that discrimination in any book!

Agree with most here - no.

If you can dominate the Championship from now until the end of next season, they could sneak in if a SL club goes down the pan or if Widnes do. I'm pretty confident we'll get in next time.