Starbug, the RFL had to let 06 happen because they simply couldn't afford a legal battle with Whelans lawyers over whether you could spread payments onto the next seasons wage bill.
I think this topics gone so far off track it's pointless continuing.

Maybe not like Bradford or Widnes but certainly more heartland than York or Doncaster.

No, they haven't. They might have played the odd game here and there and the occasional tour with gridiron converts now and then but to claim that they have been playing rugby league for 50 years is absurd.

The vast majority of that time had no rugby league at all played on American soil.

Again this is absolutely absurd.

There were two clubs early on that lasted one season and Highfield played there briefly aside from that for 95% of those 70 years, there was no rugby league in London.

You are a HKR fan now are you ?

If your not going to pay attention

I didn't say they finished bottom 3 times , I said they got relegated twice and finished bottom once in 3 SL seasons , if your not going to pay attention

There is no way a sports controlling body should have been in that position , any decent lawyer could have put clauses into the operational rules to prevent it , bottom line is the RFL didn't want W1g4n to go down , the other SL clubs didn't want W1g4n to go down , Cas were sacrificed , but no doubt helped from there on in

And you wonder why I have so little faith in the people who are supposed to run our sport FAIRLY for all

I don't think they did.
I think the conspiracy theory's are as daft as they come.
People with nice expensive lawyers will always find loopholes, the governing body should have took them on imo

There was no ' loophole ' , it was just that nobody had ever considered that somebody would do it , which considering the London Bronco's situation a couple of seasons earlier is absolutely shocking

as absurd as saying peripgnan is heartlands when it was dominated by union for 30 years.

ask roy boy what i look like

hes a friend on facebook

ive got photos in the gym with my shirt off and abs showing

You sexy Aussie mo fo.

Have you got any with you wearing your AFL shirts?

my abs arent THAT good, but im working on it

im off to the gym in an hour.

not bad effort for a sunday!