Whitehaven are about to go into administration, are the RFL going to help them out.

You can bet your bottom dollar RFL will bail them out (again!!!). RFL will not allow Quins to to the wall. It will happen again what happened last time - Quins will no longer exist and they will re form Norwich Canaries or some other such nonsense -it is about time the RFL realised that London do not want Rugby League.

No Chance, It will be Lewis's Oh i'll resign again speel, if you dont let us help them out, Any other club would have to be relegated

Carrot will besomething like all clubs to remain, RFL to help Quims for a season, widnes brought up

I'd let him resign, he's killing the game and thought up of the franchise joke.

Be carefull its heresy to say things like that, the VT muppets will be onto you

Its really a simple question;

If the RFL assist Quins (and I hope they do), then are they really going to relegate one of the other clubs to the Championship.

Hasn't the term "fit for purpose" been bandied about by RFL bods for months now. How on earth could you look a clubs CEO in the eye and say "sorry mate but you have to go" and then help sustain Quins.

Keep ALL the current clubs in SL and promote a Championship club (Widnes anyone!).

It is laughable how the RFL try to keep these stories under wraps like Paddy Mortimer leaving (sacked) the performance department.

As one who vividly remembers the sort of stereotyped, p*ss take media treatment RL used to get before the likes of London, France, Wales were in the psyche I have to say I'd be gutted if Quins were allowed to fail.

Here's the thing, realistically Manchester DOESN'T want RL because they don't really care about RL or follow the game! Football is the only interest there in the same way as it is Sheffield, Gateshead, Carlisle, Nottingham, Paris & sadly, London.

If the RL bail out the Harlequins out will their then financial irregularities be ignored? I think so. Again making our game and the people who run it look stupid.

They wont be relegated or allowed to fail. The cynic in me sees this situation as something that saves our or Wakeys Superleague franchise, with the announcement beginning something like ' due to the current financial situation blah blah blah'. On the down side I can see Widnes being shafted again.

this idiotic franchise system needs scrapping and the whole of the RFL need frontal lobotomies, there must be a cure for this madness

Quote: ambernotyeller "They wont be relegated or allowed to fail. The cynic in me sees this situation as something that saves our or Wakeys Superleague franchise, with the announcement beginning something like ' due to the current financial situation blah blah blah'. On the down side I can see Widnes being shafted again. this idiotic franchise system needs scrapping and the whole of the RFL need frontal lobotomies, there must be a cure for this madness'" Which team escaped relegation because of the introduction of franchises? It wasn't Quinns! www.superleague.co.uk/table08.php

Quote: ambernotyeller "They wont be relegated or allowed to fail. The cynic in me sees this situation as something that saves our or Wakeys Superleague franchise, with the announcement beginning something like ' due to the current financial situation blah blah blah'. On the down side I can see Widnes being shafted again. this idiotic franchise system needs scrapping and the whole of the RFL need frontal lobotomies, there must be a cure for this madness'" Which team escaped relegation because of the introduction of franchises? It wasn't Quinns! www.superleague.co.uk/table08.php

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Early Bath wrote:Finally re the ground - Is there another stadium in North London with a capacity to work on? Hendon/Wealdstone prob too small - any others?

The only remotely sensible one I can think of is Leyton Orient.

Dagenham and Barnet are too small. There is no non-league football ground in Greater London any better than those. Other than that you've got either modern grounds like Charlton and Millwall that are too big, plus other even bigger grounds; then there's the likes of Brentford that is too antiquated to satisfy the increasing drive towards modernisation of SL grounds.

Our current ground is as good as we'll get; the trouble is it's probably in the worst area of Greater London in which to establish RL. I'm not sure "London RLFC" as tenants of an established other club is ever going to work. It didn't the last time and a lot of people, myself included, felt the link up with Quins was the final throw of the dice. Being Quins at The Stoop feels like we've got our own ground to me in a way that squatting at Brentford FC didn't.

Ideally we need a ground of our own that isn't associated with a bigger club playing another code. Even Skolars have got that! Is there a dormant stadium somewhere that we could take over and redevelop as our own home? Even if there is it would require a benevolent multi-millionaire to make it happen. If the RFL & Sky really do feel it's so essential to sustain a London club in Superleague maybe they can do something to bring about a dedicated rugby league stadium in the capital?

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