Quote: SmokeyTA "Only one of them however managed to both go bust and lose points for salary cap infringements in the same year, and only one of them finished a 28 game league season on 0 points.'"
So earlier when you said
Quote: SmokeyTA "However bad London are they are nowhere near as bad as Halifax were in SL. '"
you meant that London are nowhere near as bad as when Halifax were at their lowest ebb in their final season of six in 2003.
And yet when you take a broader view and look at the averages over several seasons you see two clubs with reasonable similar stats. Harlequins/London in the last three completed seasons have ended their campaigns with 13, 14, 13 comp points, Halifax bettered those returns in every season bar 2003 that they competed in SL.
I agree that the rot had set in and Halifax's time was up in 2003 as they lost their SL place to Salford but feel they had made a contribution on the field to SL prior to that not least the 3rd place Regular Round finish in 1998 - but an inability to draw the crowds or a wealthy benefactor left them teetering.