Excellent post and good points raised.

To be fair I think you will get 1 and I wont begrudge it you after the amount of times the RFL have stabed you in the back.

and they didn't stab us in the back when they brought in the salary cap rules into NL the year we got relegated, but then changed the rules again when Cas came down the year after.

Come SL time those 8 in your squad will be deadwood. They'll be in your squad but they'll rarely get a game. They're simply not good enough. It's all cosmetic bullcrap in order to satisfy one of RL's ever growing mysterious criteria points.

Listen son, if the RFL want us in, they'll put us in. If they don't, they won't. It won't matter if we suck up and satisy everyone of their silly goals - they won't put us in for 2012. So, in the meantime, Halifax RLFC will continue to do what they think is best - to entertain their fans ON THE FIELD - where it truly matters.

Your current squad? 90% of them won't see SL. They're nowhere near good enough - unless SOC has designs of matching Salford and Celtic Crusasers as was. He's spent too much money to let that happen.

In the meantime you and all the other SL franchisees will continue with their "yoof" policy. As good as the hype says that'll be, we'll still get mullered by the Aussies. It's all bollox VM - and you know it.

only a few months ago one young lad that was being watched/earmarked for fax academy from brooksbank school was signed up by a SL team.
how many times has this happened in the last few years.
including as far as know ben kavanagh at widnes.
how are fax supposed to get a good youth system going when no leagues for the teams. i.e. all set this year then RFL changed their minds.

Of course they stabed us in the back too but I just feel Widnes should of got in last time instead of Celtic Crusaders.

Agreed BUT - they'd just come out of Administration. It would have sent the wrong message. Now though? Without doubt.

After the laughable events of this week i couldn't care less. Just so long as Halifax are available to watch, week in, week out with a decent game and some top entertainment i couldn't care less how those knobsacks at Red Hall conduct themselves. They're like Greek Gods meddling with mortals on Earth.

I just want to watch Rugby League.

I have told you many times before, if you want top class entertainment get down to the Stobarts.

Anways Bradford V Wigan starting soon............

Some will make it and some won't. To suggest that none of them will make, while knowing practically nothing about these players, is beneath you, Littlerich.

I’m not suggesting they’ll all make it in SL, because they won’t, but one or two may. With a club in SL, we’ll be able to entice the better local players into our academies and slowly build a team with a backbone of local players, which have come through our system.

Running academies now, gives us a head start on this. It’s important for local pride that we try to continue to bring our own youth through our club. It is something Widnes have, until recently, have always done. We had 5 or 6 Widnesians in the side when we won the World Club Challenge.

If a club has no immediate ambition to join the pinnacle of the sport, then investing in a youth set up, probably isn’t worth it. But if you do, then an academy is a prerequisite for entry - It just is. It has to be as well.

We were getting things in place only for the RFL to move the goal posts re u18 & u20 teams (its been documented on here many times before)

Anyway, how can you take anything that the RFL stipulate as being correct.. look at the farce they made of the recent Toulouse news!

Given the farce with Celtic/Crusaders and the laughable gaffe this week with Toulouse, our future is already pre-determined and it doesn't involve SL. What i've heard from a source close to the Halifax board will shake the foundations of Rugby League for the next five years at least. I'll say [iParis-Toulouse-bankrolled and BskyB [/iand leave it at that. I kid you not.

Widnes will be the last "heartland" club admitted. European expansion is coming and the road will be littered with cock ups and embarrassment. Unless Huddersfield or Bradford collapse, we haven't a chance.

I love bearers of good news.

Remember that this is hearsay, and the delightfully depressing Littlerich.