Best comment I've seen on VT in a long time. What's most frightening though is that the RFL seem to have lost sight of this simple fact!

You haven't actually read the rest of the thread, have you.

No they haven't, they know that die hard fans like Starbug and others go to watch what's on the pitch and don't care what kind of facilities there is or what the stand is like. They also know that a lot more people are swayed by such matters.

* Worcestershire County Cricket Club (1899)
* Northamptonshire County Cricket Club (1905)
* Glamorgan County Cricket Club (1921)
* Durham County Cricket Club (1992)

i think Starbug and Maurice had a chat at about 1pm Saturday, Starbug said to Maurice "i'm bored with nothing to do", Maurice replied with "don't worry, I will sort something out that will last you days and fill every waking minute".

That is probably so true

But the discussion was about promotion and relegation, not removal and creation, that is entirely different



The County Championship Division 2 (2000)

England's national cricket team then improved over the next 5 years to rise up the rankings and win their first ashes series for 18 years

Why would you think the discussion was limited to that route of entry or exit for teams in a sporting competition?

It came from the statement "Any sport which allows the decisions for competition placings to be decided behind closed doors in a boardroom instead of on the pitch has lost all legitimacy as a sport."

No reference to multiple tiers within those sports, or P&R.

I think that the Super League is in a great position at the moment, unfortunately the National Leagues are not. Couldn't be bothered to read beyond the first 3 posts as it got the Virtual Terrace virus (like most threads do). It will be interesting to see how the league will look in 10 years time.

As a Wakey fan I am sort of looking forward to a stint in the national leagues, nothing about our current situation indicates we should be playing in Super League, maybe in a years time that might all change. My only worry is that heartlands clubs like us and the rest won't get a look in next time round. I just can't trust Richard Lewis and his cronies at Red Hall, after the countless blunders that the sport has encountered during their reign.

I wish the RFL would be crystal clear on their motives and not keep fans in the dark. For example why bother letting certain teams apply for a SL license when there isn't a hope in hell of getting one.

Which are? I suppose you could start with letting Wakefield into SL as a blunder but I think that was before Mr Lewis' time.

As usual a post starts a thread , and that thread ' spawns ' an argument sometimes far from the o/p

Then opinions on that ' subject ' are given , nobody ever changes their opinion , we just all spar with each other trying in ever more tenuous ways to prove our point

Good innit

My ' negativity ' is only matched by equal amounts of ' blind faith ' displayed by others , the truth is probably somewhere in the middle , but how boring would that be