Set to fold apparently. Get your s into gear RFL you helped out Bradford now do the same for York. Stop looking for fancy locations to "expand" and get your own house in order. Family game? B*ll*cks.

Not sure what The Rfl can do if this is the case, York have always been strugglers, and folded or nearly folded 3-4 times. There is clearly no appetite for proffestional RL in York. Or proffestional sport in general.

The York owner is killing the club off, despite offers from other clubs to host their games.

I can assure you that the RFL are not at fault in this and are actively working to save the club.

It needs the York owner to be out of the picture though.

turned down the offer to play at doncaster

early in the season, the chairman was threatening to pull the plug

Shame to hear, not just for the game but of course for the fans more than anyone. Saw a game at Dewsbury a few years ago and they seemed a great bunch. Reading the statement, I'm just struggling to read it as anything other than their chairman taking his ball home. It doesn't sound like he even wants to make an effort to keep the club going? www.yorkcityknights.co.uk/News/Article/45986

Shame to hear, not just for the game but of course for the fans more than anyone. Saw a game at Dewsbury a few years ago and they seemed a great bunch. Reading the statement, I'm just struggling to read it as anything other than their chairman taking his ball home. It doesn't sound like he even wants to make an effort to keep the club going? www.yorkcityknights.co.uk/News/Article/45986

WTF are you on about?

The rfl are a bluddy disgrace. Fast tracking these forrin teams while the real clubs are left to die ! When will they learn that expansion doesnt work

Folded/packed in.....The RFL weren't d when Blackpool packed in, likewise York RLFC. Maybe the RFL have tried to help, who knows...not read anything that they have though.

Maybe the RFL should grab these people and force them at gunpoint not to 'pack in'.

It's sad to hear any team folding but especially in the season. If the York Chairman has had enough, I wonder why the RFL can't step in and run the club at least till the end of the season then take it from there. There are places that the games could have been played if the people involved and the RFL had the appetite. It also sounds like the owners have had a tough time of it as far as support from the local Council.

Real shame, great city and always enjoyed going to a pre-season friendly there. Were doing so well this year as well.

Never good to hear that a Club has gone down. Sorry to hear it. Hopefully the Club will come back in name and for York.

I don't know the numbers / $$'s but viability is critical and getting the crowds/TV back is key by making the sport highly marketable.

The AFL in Australia is booming because they made it a social sport where to really enjoy it, you must be at the game. Regular Club games of 50-100,00 don't lie in a city of only 4 million ( Melbourne ) with multiple Clubs. RU is on it's knees in Australia, and the crowds in NRL have been diminishing for years as people watch the box and play bets. There's lessons to be learned from the successful sports in Australia, France, North America and UK.

Folks have to participate and encourage the RFL to think outside the square.

FFS I'd have thought that was obvious even to your little band of SL apologists

Indeed - the key word is city.

The SL apologists on here wet themselves if you mention that a psot man in Coventry has shown an interest in RL - if his wife also shows an interest it's enough to demand a franchise and the expulsion of (Wakefield normally) from SL to make way.

Yet we have a great city like york and nobody gives a damn. Some people say there is no appetite for the game their, yet somehow there is in London where millions were wasted or lets go random Oxford!

If we let clubs with histoery within the heartland die then exspansion will never happen - that's not anti exspansion it's the truth that the exspansionist cant accept. If the roots and trunk are weak there can be no braches.

Save York now before we lose another RL City.

This makes perfect sense to me but you will still be slaughtered by the expansionists!