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Quote: Duckman "Well, some late changes to the structure started today. An rfl tweet about there being no promotion playoff final from c1 this year like last year, instead the team finishing 1st goes up automatically without the risk of losing the one off game..... That's handy for Toronto.'"


Is there another sport on the planet that changes the competition rules part way through a season?

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Quote: Duckman "Well, some late changes to the structure started today. An rfl tweet about there being no promotion playoff final from c1 this year like last year, instead the team finishing 1st goes up automatically without the risk of losing the one off game..... That's handy for Toronto.'"
was always gonna be like that 2nd to 5th play off for the other promotion place its no secret or conspiracy by rfl

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Quote: woolly07 "Exactly right.
I am sure the RFL have thought of that. HKR up. Us and one other down and replaced by Toronto + Cambrian team

To be fair mate think me and you Have had same views throughout

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Quote: barrajacks "was always gonna be like that 2nd to 5th play off for the other promotion place its no secret or conspiracy by rfl'"


I've not seen the tweet in question, but the structure at the start of the season for C1 was announced as...

Top 8 / Bottom 8 split part way through season.

Bottom 8 play another 7 games each, after which the "top" 4 of those have a "Shield" competition of Semi Finals and Final.

Top 8 play another 7 games each, after which the 1st place team gets promoted. 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th have a playoff (Semi Finals & Final), the winner of which also gains promotion.

Has that changed?

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Quote: blueandwhite "Hull KR up another Super League team down - no difference

Championship was surviving without Bradford and still will - could Bradford survive on crowds if any from Oxford, Coventry etc?

I'm sure RL will change things so you don't go down - rightly or wrongly'"


Wakey start playing above the rubbish they are and now you start piping up. If they were as rubbish as normal you wouldn't be on here so head back in your hole as it won't be long before wakey are clinging on by edge of teeth again. Some of your fans are carrying on like you are champions never be there hope it comes crashing down

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Bar Sheffield, all the bottom eight have a similar record. It's not inconceivable (especially with reinforcements) that the Bulls could beat them all, allied with a win or two in the remaining regular league games, and the entirely possible scenario of one of the teams above the bottom two going into free fall, they could stay up easily.

Not saying that will happen, but staying up would not be a sporting miracle. Lose against Swinton and I'd say would be miracle territory.

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My god SOME bulls fans think they have a Devine right of top flight rugby.
If you stay up fine but if you go down and then the rfl save you that is wrong.
Look at football with rangers,they broke the rules and paid the price,just because they have a lot of fans they didn't get saved.
If hull kr go up maybe Leigh or Widnes may come down and both them bring very good followings so the championship would survive.
This whole "the game needs us" thing from some Bulls fans is starting to get a few fans backs up.
Yes you have a good fan base but it don't mean the rules should get changed

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How many times does this thread say bulls fans wanted to stat in L1? I know it is difficult, I have been to Fev once, but try and keep up and get your facts right

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Quote: HamsterChops "I've not seen the tweet in question, but the structure at the start of the season for C1 was announced as...

Top 8 / Bottom 8 split part way through season.

Bottom 8 play another 7 games each, after which the "top" 4 of those have a "Shield" competition of Semi Finals and Final.

Top 8 play another 7 games each, after which the 1st place team gets promoted. 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th have a playoff (Semi Finals & Final), the winner of which also gains promotion.

Has that changed?'"

No thsts how ut still is

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Quote: Bets'y Bulls "How many times does this thread say bulls fans wanted to stat in L1? I know it is difficult, I have been to Fev once, but try and keep up and get your facts right'"


That's why I said SOME Bulls fans,,,if you go down and the rfl save you what will you view be then??

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Quote: Fev 1979 "My god SOME bulls fans think they have a Devine right of top flight rugby.
If you stay up fine but if you go down and then the rfl save you that is wrong.
Look at football with rangers,they broke the rules and paid the price,just because they have a lot of fans they didn't get saved.
If hull kr go up maybe Leigh or Widnes may come down and both them bring very good followings so the championship would survive.
This whole "the game needs us" thing from some Bulls fans is starting to get a few fans backs up.
Yes you have a good fan base but it don't mean the rules should get changed'"


I really hope it happens, because it would be compensation for being FORCED to play in the Championship to suit the RFL, not what the new club would in normal circumstances be required or wanted to do - start in Championship 1. It sorted out a lot of problems for them such as fixtures and attendance at the MW. Hull KR three times in a season. So them sorting out the problems they caused - 14 points deduction, central funding deduction, no season ticket money, etc is very reasonable.

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Quote: blueandwhite "Championship was surviving without Bradford and still will - could Bradford survive on crowds if any from Oxford, Coventry etc?'"


The away following in the championship is none existent too so I can't see how being relegated will make any difference on that front. Even the "big" local sides like Dewsbury only brought a taxi full. Even less from further afield - Halifax for example, even though Greater Manchester is less than an hour away!

Anyway we shouldn't have been relegated from Superleague as the game needs a strong Bradford. We are really a superleague club in the wrong division. That's a little treat for anyone reading from a Wakefield pit village who is aged about 38. You can hear him ejaculating from here.

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Quote: Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza "The away following in the championship is none existent too so I can't see how being relegated will make any difference on that front. Even the "big" local sides like Dewsbury only brought a taxi full. Even less from further afield - Halifax for example, even though Greater Manchester is less than an hour away!

Anyway we shouldn't have been relegated from Superleague as the game needs a strong Bradford. We are really a superleague club in the wrong division. That's a little treat for anyone reading from a Wakefield pit village who is aged about 38. You can hear him ejaculating from here.'"


I'm not biting,,,very good effort though

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Frankly I’m past caring what division we’re in next year. Que sera. As for what fans of other teams think I couldn’t care less about them either. After what we’ve been through I’ve lost all faith in the “RL family”. With every setback we’ve had people telling us how we’ve been specially treated. If we go down we’ll still have people telling us we’re the RFL’s pets so they can promote us directly to SL or the bloody NRL icon_wink.gif and I’ll welcome the whingers on here if only to say I don’t care what they think.

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Quote: Fev 1979 "My god SOME bulls fans think they have a Devine right of top flight rugby.
If you stay up fine but if you go down and then the rfl save you that is wrong.
Look at football with rangers,they broke the rules and paid the price,just because they have a lot of fans they didn't get saved.
If hull kr go up maybe Leigh or Widnes may come down and both them bring very good followings so the championship would survive.
This whole "the game needs us" thing from some Bulls fans is starting to get a few fans backs up.
Yes you have a good fan base but it don't mean the rules should get changed'"

It's nothing to do with the Bulls. The RFL put us in CH with -12 to save the sorry backsides of them selves and the rest of the bankrupt clubs in the CH. Had we been put in CH1 we would obviously have got promotion and so would be playing 2018 in the CH. If they change the rules then they are just righting the wrong they have already done.

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