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All i can say is why is it up to us to develop RL in france by inviting tolouse. I have a nasty thought that the RFL plan to lose both cas and wakey infavour of Tolouse and Widnes

I think in thier minds that in another 3 years time at least they will be able to lose a french team and still have represntation.

I do not understand the RFLs infatuation with taking the game across the length and breadth of this great land

I will be sorry to lose either cas or wakey, I'm afraid its squeaky bum time for the 2 clubs.

I also think its poor that the RFL have issued this statement. Is it to put pressure on those that have not complied fully with last times criteria????

Work will start in Spring according to Waystone and will be opened for the 2012 season. That gives us until the end of January 2012 to complete.

Roughly 44 weeks. Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though.

Quote: Fully "Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though.'" It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious notethe stadium build is a 46 week process. '" From Wakefield's latest outburst: wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. On a separate note, I do wish that Cas & Wakefield could use their press releases to simply relay news on their own developments without the need to constantly bitch about the other's project. It makes us look like a couple of spoilt kids.

Quote: Fully "Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though.'" It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious notethe stadium build is a 46 week process. '" From Wakefield's latest outburst: wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. On a separate note, I do wish that Cas & Wakefield could use their press releases to simply relay news on their own developments without the need to constantly bitch about the other's project. It makes us look like a couple of spoilt kids.

Cringeworthy is what it is, it hardly puts across the image of a professional organisation

Based on what? Your myopic "rugby league is a local sport for local people" bias??

A sweeping statement based on what evidence? Could it be that Rugby league is a "local sport for local people"?

I have just seen this post on the Fev forum thought it was pretty sums up how stupid this whole franchise thing is. I would love Rugby to just be about Rugby again.

I've got a great idea that will change the way the RFL is seen worldwide. Lets invite the 2012 Olympic Committee to follow the way we run Rugby League? This is what we do. We invite athletes from all over the world to come to London and have a knockabout in the new stadiums we have built. After a while we choose say, ten or twelve athletes to go forward to the 'Super Athlete' stage. (These will be chosen by who is wearing the nicest colours). Then, these few selected athletes run up and down a few times. It won't matter who is first or last because the winner will the one who has the best smile on television.
I believe this will bring in 100's of millions of viewers from all over world in the same way that thousands are flocking to watch non-competitive Rugby League. We can invent athletes, anyone even if they have never run before.
This way we will see a lot more sporting disiplines taking part in absolutely pointless sports. We wont have to follow particular atheletes or countries, we wont have to get excited about watching nail biting endings. All we would have to do is sit in front of the television and simply watch.

Seriously though, without competition and fire in the belly to succeed any sport is pointless. Even Primary School sports now have winners and losers in their sports day. Someone, please, at the RFL wake up and make this wonderful game a game worth watching.

Clearly not as many as you would like, but then we're not bunched up together on the M62 are we???

All I can say is good luck. SL would be poorer without Cas and/or Wakey.

The same can be said of most of SL at some stage. Giants for example perenial under achievers , using you top 8 finished criteria, but now make a go of establishing themselves amongst the SL "Elite". As for no money that goes for most of the SL clubs who survive on the goodwill of deep pocketed owners and board members.

I'm not saysing all at Quins is a bed of roses. It is not. But the same can be said for many of the current SL clubs in regard to finances and stagnant crowd figures.

Whilst the naysayers and myopic amongst the northern supporter base remain so the game will not improve at either local nor imternational level. England and English rugby league will remain in it's current malaise and I would argue in the long term even go backwards. But as long as you got your M62 corridor to travel along tpo play your "local sport for local people" the myopic northern supporter will remain happy. Wont' they?