Not everyone had when the bids were submitted. Did they take the top 8 when the bids were submitted as well using your "logic"?

Teams aren't required to get into the top 8 in every season though are they?

Besides, you haven't answered the question. For the 2014 round of licences, will 2011 be taken into consideration do you think, even though it is outside the next licence period? Or will 2012, 2013 and 2014 be the three seasons taken into consideration?

What's that got to do with it? It's still a criteria. So are you using the same logic and saying the top 8 criteria was at some arbitrary point this season when not everyone had played everyone else home and away?



You've haven't asked me a question before so it was difficult to answer - For some things if they follow the same practice as the last two license rounds yes, because of the simple fact the bids will be submitted early in the third year of the next license period.

This would make things tricky for grading Widnes if they are being judged this year they are on a bad start, or if they are not being judged this year it isn't consistent with the other 13.

That said I do agree with you cannot fairly/evenly judge criteria for attendances for 2011 when the bids had to be in about 6 weeks into the season

Agree with the Widnes situation, it's one of the problems of the way they do things as anyone outside the SL will be at a disadvantage in some respect. However this is the RFL we are talking about.

We won't get a grade A next time because this seasons attendances will be less than 10,000 which will affect it.

But unless something drastic happens we won't get a C, so who cares?

I can see what the RL are trying to do but they will not get 14 grade A clubs for the next umpteen years. We will have grade C clubs for the next 30 years and I bet the top 6 - 8 won't change much in that time.Saints Wigan and Leeds will be their or their abouts most years.and the likes of the two Hull teams Bradford Warrington will have purple patches in that period.I really do hope I am wrong and we get a league like they have in Oz but i don't think we ever will, but that has got to be our goal.