Championship is boring.

We've won the Grand Final, been to blackpool. Had our win in the challenge cup at an SL side.

Now I'm waiting for my team to lose its attendances, go into administration and die slowly and the RFL will just look the other way and be glad to see us lose the proud history of our club.

Except the result isn't the same, because you'd have never got to SL on the back of a NR Cup win in previous seasons. You've been decidedly average for 3 seasons and under P&R you wouldn't have deserved a place in the top flight. But you can qualify now by not winning a damn thing, so I suppose you did win something at least.

its amazing some people stilll dont get it. Im too tired of this to bother explaining it again.

Don't get what?

That the RFL are hand picking teams for Super League based on criteria that have little to not to do with sport? I think I've figured that one...

Or something else?

They are also hand picking reasons to keep teams in, under the 2008 criteria Crusaders would be well and truly below Wakefield and Halifax. Come 2015 the RFL will simply put who ever they want in SL and make the rules up to fit. Already it's been said that Toulouse going back to the French league won't effect there application for 2015. All very convenient now that they won't after compete with the rest of us riff raff to win the GF or the NRC.

It's easy. Pick yourselves up a Steve O'Connor and by-pass the queue. Good on Widnes i say but that is THE ONLY reason they're in.

No they rent a shiny stadium aswell, that also helps.

I thought it was because they got themselves in the clique!

I'm not saying they've simply sat back and done nothing. They have worked at every aspect of what the RFL wanted them to do. They couldn't have done it without O'Connors backing. That's they key element any RL club needs. You won't get the rewards by winning trophies anymore. Like it or not, that's the game now.

I dont think thats entirely true. There is the small matter of the largest crowds in the league by some distance, the club facilities, other factors. I don't doubt O Connor has been great for us, but he's not the single reason we're on our way up. More one of them. One team was definitely coming up, can you think of any other team more suited right now?

We can waffle about championship winners all we want to, but there is the fact that were we all playing under old rules people's squads would look very different. We wouldn't have this salary cap either you'd feel, it's a tad on the short side and doesn't benefit the biggest clubs in any way.

It's important to leighs accountant