From a purely anarchistic point o view I love that idea

You are playing for the prestige of winning one or more of the following..
The Northern Rail Cup
The Co-operative Championship league Leaders Shield
The Co-operative Championship Grand Final

Meanwhile away from the playing side you have the option of trying to build your club so that in other aspects it is one of the best fourteen clubs in Europe.

And Salford thought they would be sitting in a landmark RL purpose built stadium from next year onwards....
You are more like the comatose giants. I've not seen anything from Fax to suggest you would be right. If you were getting 4 - 5k fans or maybe season ticket sales of 3k then maybe but on crowds of 2.5k you are seriously deluded.

So you are saying Widnes arent ready then as you are not getting them either?

Widnes are the best supported club outside super league and have been for a number of years, that figure above is what you would need to jump above us IMO which you are not going to do. I like Halifax but one does have to question what you are bringing to the table in terms of talent. You have still yet to announce any sort of youth setup and have a rather extensive overseas contingent in your team. Stanley Gene has been a fantastic servant to the game over in this country and he is loved by all including me who think he has been a great player but is now approaching the final hurdle. Your recruitment smacks of short term thinking and nothing more. Your coach is also very questionable in terms of his behaviour and any other board would have booted him out by now. Infrastrutuce is key to any business and we have it all setup to be a decent force in super dooper league.


2015 for Halifax and i will be supporting your franchise bid should you improve on your obvious flaws.

You keep telling yourself that VM. We dont need to have 3000 season ticket holders to jump above you, nor do we have to average 5000 crowds. But it would be fantastic if we did. What do Widnes bring to the table?....average youngsters.....big financial losses.....recent adminsitration...poor team performances..crowds that are reducing....failed SL coach. I hope you dont go to the wall before the next round of licences. However, with their now being a SL team in Wrexham...is there any need to have Widnes in SL? Only time will tell.

I dont need to tell myself anything it's a fact, Halifax have a long way to go before they can start challenging for that franchise spot. Take a look at the number of Yorkshire teams already in Super League.


The big loss was down to a new gym under the north stand and 80% of stadium getting new seats, a big cost also went on the license build up. I think every Super League club made a loss last year except Hull, Take a look at Huddersfields losses and Harlequins and Hull KR (I can go on)

The people who know (Elders of this board) know im right, your not a 100 miles away but you still have a fair bit to go.

We have all the silverware in the cabinet and have been in numerous finals over the years.

Your the little sister to Widnes, you have to accept that and come to terms with it.

Yours in sport

VIKINGMAN

Saints, Warrington and Wigan don't count then?

Huddersfield
Bradford
Leeds
Cas
Wakefield
Hull
Hull KR

Hull and KR are only 1 hour from most of the above.

Add Halifax and you might as well get Emmerdale to Sponsor Super League.

The elevation of Widnes to Super league is a foregone conclusion and it's pointless debating it although i disagree with Vikingman about the squad we've put together and his unecessary swipe at the personal behaviour of a man he knows very little about. Vikingman - that's squad's been put together to entertain the fans of Halifax RLFC in 2010 - not to fill the gap until a SL squad is signed up in preparation to 2012. That squad will put Halifax at the top of the pile next year - in my opinion.

I think the key debate next year will focus on the current clubs under threat in Super League and whether the RFL will have the balls to kick anyone out. I think that, come 2011 there will be more clubs that pass the RFL's licence criteria than there are places available. In those circumstances how do they choose? The[i subjectivity [/iof the whole process will be shown up in big neon lights in 2011.

No doubt it would be Wakey, Salford or Cas who came down, if any club from our league was to go up, we could take their place

True your squad has been assembled to entertain but it's short term thinking. pressure is on next year and lets see if your squad can handle it. As for Calland well lets just say he gives us Widnes folk a bad name.