Well said Pop Tart

I think a lot has changed since the last round of franchises when both our clubs were staring down the barrel. First we had an expansion club go to the wall, then a big city club with a lot of recent success go into admin and is propped up by the impartial RFL and now Salford in trouble...shattering the SLE myth that shiny new stadiums are a guarantee of club stability.

Oh the irony - you really don't see it in yourself do you

I would imagine it is made up of people with an interest in the project and ones wanting to make it a) happen and b) a success.
So the likely hood of Richard Wright or anyone from Castleford Tigers having been on it are fairly remote I would imagine.

FYI Rodney Walker, David Hinchcliffe, Andrew Glover and James Elston

No one independent of WTWC's there.

Like stadia, league position is one part of the criteria. Not only that, it is not based solely on one year.

Salford are having financial difficulties. They have today rejected a further loan of £750k. They have been served with a winding-up petition. They don't fill their stadia.

Cas comparatively although things have been tight, have been relatively fine financially. Although we lose money, we are not haemorrhaging it to the extent that other SL clubs are posting losses. We have a clear player pathway and bring youth through. We also contribute to England and England Knights. We have bigger attendances.

I firmly do not believe that licensing will continue and that we'll return to promotion and relegation. It could be that the clubs at the bottom of season 3 (i.e. 2014) are relegated, or it could be done like licensing on the top 12 teams. Either way, I still think we're in top 12 teams and had we started building new stadium we'd have been a grade B licence last time. We narrowly missed out on that aspect.

That's your opinion.

Clearly the RFL disagree and so do I.

One bad season doesn't make us an awful club by any stretch of imagination.As for being bottom this season, time will tell. I think we have a much stronger squad this season than last year and I think the likes of Fleming can come in and make an impact. He didn't look out of place in a poor Wales team

why dose some loose hart in the team they say there fans of, i have seen worse teams than last year, when we first got relegated, on paper we should have been top 8 but in most games the players had other things on there mind and in my earlier years when Really came back at times we were less than average, so for some if last year was there last, the cricket & tennis will be on but not much ells, in terms of sport

Maybe because DJKYLE isn't a Cas fan?

Same here or at the very least stadium criteria will be relaxed towards the point of irrelevance....although giving some credit to those clubs who actually own their grounds is a logic which will no doubt continue to elude the RFL. Still, well done Wakey who look to be moving from a poor old stadium they dont own to a good new stadium they dont own. Sarcasm aside I think they'll prosper at NM providing they continue to play well enough to keep the new/returning fans and tempt everyone to follow them almost outside the city limits.

Something which has eluded Salford even by giving out hundreds of free tickets.