...angry ****** are coming.

rlhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/24/london-welsh-kicked-out-professional-rugby-unionrl

Karma...

They played at Old Deer Park. Old Deer Park has a bowling club. Seriously.

For the more blinkered/mouth-foaming Fax/Wakey/Hudds fans...

They failed to cut their cloth and needed to realise they were no longer a big club, shouldn't have spent money they didn't have, how arrogant were they thinking they should have success given to them, decades of mis-management, karma!!...They were never really a big successful club anyway, just a flash in the pan for 10 years, never won anything before that....shouldn't they have learnt lessons?

There, saved you a job so don't let us detain you

The irony is that with all the money sloshing about in Union the RFU could afford to let a Club go to the wall, whereas the RFL through strapped for cash in comparison found it too difficult to let that happen at Bradford, though LW tended to be a nomadic Club with no real roots as opposed to Bradford, also it would have been interesting to see how they would have approached it if Leicester Tigers were in that sort of financial strife!

You can almost hear blood boiling in Siddal, Sandal and Salendine Nook.

According to the Guardian they failed to provide proof of funds or an adequate business plan. Presumably Bradford's owners did hence the different outcomes. Apples and Pears.

Maybe they didn't have an iconic stadium

No that's far too logical an answer. You're not getting into the spirit of things at all.

They're Welsh? Maybe the RFU wanted the WRU to do the bailing?

Spot on. I know some journalists were kicking off how tough the RFU were compared to RFL. But the RFU actually started a phoenix club the same as RFL have with Bradford. If they had a business plan then London Welsh would still have been in the championship from what i understand. That's not to say we have a full proof business plan. Not exactly been thorough in the past have we.

The biggest difference is the size of the pool. The RFU have far more clubs willing, and [most likely] able to take over from London Welsh. However, in our somewhat smaller pool, to lose a club the size of Bradford would be a far bigger issue, as we have seen with their insistence that we take up, 'our', position in the Championship.

Ah well sad day for the London Welsh - always sad to see a club suffer like that.....but these things happen its a harsh world we live in - such is life.

Life is too short to get into foaming the at the mouth - Always look on the bright side of life

Now you've done it....incoming!

I'm worried that the RFL are going to see the -20 and get some ideas.