Easy , start beating Leeds and Bradford on a regular basis , and they will come back , unfortunatly that option is no longer available to you , so you have to look elsewhere for your future

How many times have you seen certain posters on the VT post ' its a local game for local people ' in an attempt to insult so called anti expansionists ? , when in fact what they post is exactly what we need to be doing , as far as clubs like ours are concerned , we are a local sport for local people , that should be our main focus

Yes , that is my main fear as well , I pointed it out when the changeover was first mentioned , were at the moment your average fan can get one day a weekend to go and watch a game all year round , when they move to summer you will have the amateurs playing Saturday with a £ 2 entrance fee and cheap beer and then the local semi pro club on a sunday , which option will many fans take ?

As you say , sometimes they dont actually think these things through properly

I have got to agree with you on this one ,I think it`s time that we distanced ourselves from the RFL expantionist model and embraced and celebrated our individualisam as a local sport.
As all other fans that have been around for years I know dozens and dozens of people who have stopped going to the matches because of things that the RFL have imposed on us. One of them being the stoping of promotion and relegation and while we cannot do anything about that I do think we should be "selling the club" on ideals that are important to our own town and it`s people and stop bothering about the "buying in "of RFL claptrap.
I like you hope whoever wins the fancy dress tickets chucks them on the floor and refuses to take them because will they be doing the same at the Challenge Cup final and offering 2 tickets to next years Blackpool final for the Championship ? No you bet your life they won`t.

Time to start celebrating the flatcap and not the expantionist model it`s not right for our town.

Featherstone wear flat caps!

Too true Johnny me-boy. Too many things in this world get tarnished by low lifes, jumping on a symbol of good honest hard work.

we are in i tell ya!!!!!! innnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

i heard another rumour last night from someone i trust to be on the ball.

Nobby is preparing us for SL.

We had all this in 2008. Steve O'Connor had spent over £1M on the club so surely he must know we're in. He offered a £1/2M bond as security and we still got overlooked. If I was a betting man (and I am) it will be 14 teams with Wakefield dropping out.

Nobby is preparing for SL but likelihood is it will be with Cas or Hull KR sadly. Throw into the mix Bradford/Leeds for next season as dischord is rife at these clubs currently. We have been overlooked again I'm afraid and I'm pretty certain we are not SL bound as much as I think we should be.

I think Halifax are a great club, and I must say that they deserve to be in SL as much as Widnes. But I don't think they'll come in, but I do think they have a better argument if they win next Sunday, btw, thank you for letting us use your ground, much appreciated.

I love it when folk talk about deserving to be in SL - small men in smoke filled rooms deciding who the worthy should be, forcing the applicants to sign documents refusing them the right to question the decisions. Sounds like Russia circa 1936.
Stop the charade now, bring back P&R with minimum standards and keep RL alive.