West Wales are a joke and should be kicked out of the league, North Wales are doing fine and at least have enough money to last the season and live within their means unlike Whitehaven. And also have nothing to do with the Crusaders team that was in Super League but I'm sure you knew that already. Apart from the fact that you're so out of touch that you think BARLA is still relevant, again why are you ranting and raving about all manner of unrelated things on a thread you created about Whitehaven? Do you have something wrong with you?

headhunter wrote:
West Wales are a joke and should be kicked out of the league, North Wales are doing fine and at least have enough money to last the season and live within their means unlike Whitehaven. And also have nothing to do with the Crusaders team that was in Super League but I'm sure you knew that already. Apart from the fact that you're so out of touch that you think BARLA is still relevant, again why are you ranting and raving about all manner of unrelated things on a thread you created about Whitehaven? Do you have something wrong with you?

Nice one, so you felt the need 'to get personal' Apart from having Epilepsy and usually having a least one seizure every couple of weeks, generally I'm fine. Thanks for your concern. Lowlife....

I'm not concerned about you, I'm trying to find some explanation for your bizarre posts which you still haven't provided. Again, why did you start a thread on a specific topic only to start ranting and raving about something completely unrelated without any provocation at all? Why did you start rambling about how no one cares about small clubs and then use that to try and have a go at a bunch of other small clubs that have nothing to do with anything you were talking about and have done nothing wrong?

Even if we absolve Whitehaven of blame entirely for their situation (and we shouldn't), what is happening here is precisely the result of not expanding, of not reaching new audiences and of not making this sport more attractive to broadcasters and commercial partners.

A poster on here a while ago claimed that a chairman of one Cumbrian club is on record as saying "he knows how many season tickets his club would sell just by looking in the obituaries section of the local paper". If true then that, right there, is why too many heartland clubs have very bleak futures.

5K from each SL club should do it, maybe not even that if the RFL dipped in two. Not much of an RL family we've got though is it? That concept is truly dead and buried.

But for how long do we keep throwing good money after bad? If Super League bails-out one badly managed club, how long before the rest come knocking with the begging bowl? Bunging Haven £60k now is all well and good, but where do we find the funding to bail them out next year, and the year after, and the year after that, because - by Haven's own admission - they aren't growing their own revenue?

It's up to the people of Whitehaven to show that they still want RL in the town. Their last home game attracted 500 people. 500. Is that really the extent of the interest that Whitehaven has in RL?

Personally, when I think of the RL family, I think about the way in which the people of this sport rallied around the Jones family or Steve Prescott, rather than whether they bail out poorly run clubs.

And let's not ignore the double standard here. If this were a club in any other part of the country, getting 500 people to watch them, the tone from certain posters on here would be very different.

You and your mate don't give a damn really. Took a story about a club potentially folding and turned it into a 'slag off expansion lovers' bashing by both your 2nd posts with the actual thread topic pushed to one side.

Well worked out expansion lover.

It's always "the RL family" when a heartlands club is in trouble - of their own making. Never hear that phrase used when an expansion club is looking to join the league, then the same people get angry about someone else enjoying 'their' game and start ranting about the game 'dying' in their backyard.

If Haven set up a fundraising account I will definitely donate. Agreed I won't lose any sleepless nights over their plight, but hope they can make it to the end of the season. if they do they can re-budget for 2019, and also hopefully get new sponsors that will actually pay them.

That's disappointing.

They haven't been given a parachute payment and haven't had the begging bowl(s) out like Leigh and Whitehaven in recent years.

It will be West Wales Raiders who provide opposition to Whitehaven,shortly.

I'll be sure to write an angry letter to the RFL.