if im wrong tell me but i thought it was only halifax and widnes who were considered to play in super league. one of the requirements is for the team to have an average attendance of 2500. There has only been one home fixture that halifax have got that 2500 crowd you need and that was against featherstone who are top of the league. I would love halifax to come up dont get me wrong one day but the RFL would have to be stupid to let a club with 10,000 fans leave super league. Halifax will never average a 2,500 crowd this season.

Of course they won't that's obvious in the championship. I'm sure they won't average as many as the bulls in super league either but their attendances would increase massively in the top tier. In my opinion they would be better supported than both Salford and London and possibly on a par with widnes. I reckon their away support would possibly equal yours, they've always travelled reasonably well

I'd have thought the 2500 average crowd factored in the increase expected.

Don't forget, 9500 of our season ticket holders are Fax fans anyway just waiting for promotion.

dont be silly, I dont think they are fax fans and the criteria for getting in super league is 2,500 fans on average a season and they wont get that. Are you kidding, we have a much better away support than fax, great support at the moment.

Your quite right! We are all really fartown fans!

haha, fartown fans that are old bulls fans

Northern

At the end of the day it will all boil down to one question - Is SL strong enough to loose 10,000 supporters ?

Also think the other question is, Is superleague going to survive with another team taking a whooping nearly every week?

With the greatest respect to Widnes and London (possibly wakey, cas and salford) next season they will lose more games than they win if you take away a team who is in the playoff with more wins then losses and replace them with a team who like widnes this year who will take at least 12-18 months to get used to the league and may end up at the bottom, with a huge - points difference.

The gap between the haves and have nots will be even greater, i have never been a fan of the 8 team playoff system how can you lose more games then you win and still have a chance to make the GF, seems daft to me.

Agree with that. If we have to have play-offs then the top five was the best of the ideas used, though for me I could never get my head around [iany[/i non top of the league team being champions.

As for the top eight, the only thing which really puzzles me (since it's [itotally[/i about cash creation) is why they haven't come up with a top 14 play-off series - surely that would make even more money? Maybe it will be the next big idea.

From other SL teams POV, how many away fans do you take. IF they are voting on whether the Bulls should stay in SL surely that is the consideration.

I really don't know your away support, always seemed a lot better when you come to the KC than a lot of teams though.

I agree, and also, on the difference between haves and have nots;

Do fans really want sustainabilty or sugar daddy financed reaching for sucess?;

rlHUll fail in chase bidrl

"We will continue to invest until we win something. It's not about breaking even. If we have to pay a fee we will. I know what I can afford.

"Last year's recruitment was way off where it needed to be. This club is screaming out for top quality players. [iYou get what you pay for[/i."

Hull are lucky to have someone ploughing in the funds, and good luck to them, but it highlights the differences when someone is willing to write large cheques at the drop of a hat. For us, takeover or not it [iwill [/iall be about trying to break even and spending what we earn.

So for us, although I agree a top 8 playoffs is daft, if we're still in SL it could be useful for us, as competing for the top 5 is getting harder and harder.

A bit off topic

But it seems a bit ironic that a current England international couldn't get a transfer finalised because of visa issues and complications with 'border control'

Makes a bit of mockery of International Rugby

Will these new visa issues restrict the ability of our players and coaches to find alternative SL employment if we end up being liquidated?