At Kent Invicta, it was Paul Faires, a completely different individual, who founded the club (about whom there is plenty on the internet).

Ferres' only link with Invicta and Carlisle is that he played for both clubs. Don't let facts stop you from besmirching someone's reputation though.

So in other words the standard will be very poor. Another nail in the coffin of the current unfortunate CC1 clubs who do not succeed with their escape from oblivion next season.

You mean your fans don't want to see you win games?

If good teams/players were in, we'd hear "our fans don't want to see us get beaten. Another nail in the coffin of the current unfortunate CC1 clubs who do not succeed with their escape from oblivion next season."

No it isn't, they can always get promoted the following season.

And if they aren't within the top four clubs of the CC1, then they don't deserve to be in the Championship. Nothing 'unfortunate' about it.

And they went bankrupt more recently as well.

The relevance is that you claimed that Gateshead was a model that the new clubs could follow. Attendances matter. Gateshead have always been up against it because they've only had a very small support base but had to trvale more than most. Hence the instability.

But rather than see them go through the leagues to compete at a higher level, you want to see it happen by them staying where they are and the teams in the league being altered to suit your team. Right....makes perfect sense

Yes, but how many games did they fail to turn up for?

All that promotion from this league would mean is that you would be back amongst competitive rugby rather than a back door way of having being in reality relegated to amateur rugby.

Only going off the various press releases which linked him to those clubs , and suggested he had experience of starting expansion clubs , so apologies to Mr Ferres for that one , maybe I'll have to check everything the press publish in the future

Chester are the old Warrington Wizards RLCN side but under a different name / location.

Northampton may be backed by Northampton Town that would be why they "jump the queue" but I agree that Notts ought to be in there.

Bristol are in the RLC just not the national division and haven't applied to join. The Bristol / South West bid is nothing to do with them.

I await somebody , anybody that can explain why a 14/10 split is better than a 12/12 one ?

I am happy to gain promotion to the CC through the relevant channels on the pitch, but what is happening here is that the league we will find ourselves in if we do not get promotion next year will actually be the equivalent of being relegated by default. We may not move, but what is around us will have.

I have suggested a club every 2/3 years as being a better option , meaning more resources could be concentrated on all clubs , I get the feeling that the ' butter ' will be spread too thinly