can remember a fair few injuries in the mix!

Please translate ?

17 unavailable for one game is pretty unusual I'd say? Anyway gave our Kids a run out who will still be around for SL 2012 and beyond, couldn't say that for majority of other sides squads!

Rules for not counting on cap!

running with a squad of 25 then that would be a major problem. your squad was much bigger.and you had the benefits of a very good youth system to pick players from which is full credit to you.



We've promoted 4 players to the first team squad,do they not count on the SC ?

Do the DC' count on the SC ?

U21s do not count on the salary cap, as they are not declared in the First Team Squads for Championship sides, regardless of whether they are first team players or U21s.

Although an U21 loaned to another club, would count on the salary cap of the loaning club, as a loaned cost to the team regardless of being an U21 qualified player.

Dual registered players do count on the salary cap, based on which ever value is higher between monies paid to the player for playing each game versus a "value" per game placed on them by the RSCM.

So in effect if you was to run with 7 or 8 u21s home grown players this season that would free up more money to sign up better players and still remain within the SC ?

Firstly, yes you could do that. Secondly they don't have to be home grown. They just have to qualify to play within the academy. So they could be foreign with british or european passports.

How many in times we know the on field effort does not matter (IMHO it should ) but the rules set by the RFL ( the ones that matter ) The onfield criterea has been met

If it did matter then SoC would have made sure Widnes got the SL place that way

Widnes DO NOT set the rules for SL we have just followed them
IE Finance . Gates Acecemy infrastructure

Take a note out of SoC book ( after the last round of licence's _ and plan for the next lot of Licence's and Good Luck

You sound like the kopites with the " we've won it 5 times e " but at least they have summat to shout about

Our strategy had to be different. We had to put our efforts on the pitch in order to get bums on seats. Unfortunately that hasn't worked yet. We need another 1,000 on the gate if we are to be taken seriously for SL.

Has the criteria been published? Because it is wrong to assume it is the same as last time around. Dont forget that the RFL committed to promoting the best club in the Championship but never clarified what that meant. I can only assume the three applications are not getting judged against any criteria but instead against each other.

So, if the RFL adheres rigidly to it's own rules (stop laughing over there!) Fax need not have wasted it's time applying as it did not have a turnover of £1,000,000 in 2009 or 2010 (though I still believe that Widnes's figures were due to creative accounting) and Barrow need not have applied due to stadium, turnover and average attendance.

Also Cas, Wakey, Saints and Salford are out as there isn't a chance in Hell of their new stadiums being finished by the start of the 2012 season.