I don't see this as an embarrassment at all. No-one outside the sport gives a flying feck. The RFL were dropped in it at the last minute by Crusaders. Wakey or Fax? 2 M62 teams who offer nothing much more than each other & will have little or no impact on the spread of the game, which should be the RFL's priority. Fax used to be my favourite ground to visit but their exclusion in favour of Wakey matters not a jot to me. If Fax had been successful there would still be as many people crying disgrace, joke, embarrassment. The RFL have a virtually impossible task spreading the game, not helped by large numbers of myopic fans.

Is it not more a case of "compared to everyone else"? So Wakefields bid was not as good as Crusaders and therefore they would go down. With Crusaders out the comparison is then Wakefield to Halifax and they are judged to be better than Fax?

Someone has stated in a Wakey thread that they were told that apparently they were not even in the bottom 3 !!

Turning out to be a big deal 'down under' also....

rlhttp://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/crusaders-crash-could-keep-players-in-nrl-20110727-1i0ba.htmlrl

Interesting reading

some interesting comments coming from the Crusaders players on twitter in the last twenty four hours!

the likes of the Board KNEW all the time that the "illegal" imports were here illegally but they offered "hush" money to the said players to keep quiet!

players wages not being paid ...

interestingly Mark Bryant has said he has signed for a superleague club .. and its not salford?

Not Bradford either.