The thing is though this time the club going up is clearly stronger than around 4/5 clubs already in SL at the time they were given the spot

Next time , if Cas and Wakey get stadiums sorted , it is clearly going to be a weaker bid from any Championship club , so unless SL is going to grow , then it will clearly be a farce

When exactly are you referring to?In 2008 the club had already come through administration so as has already been pointed out they couldn't promise the RL they would avoid something that had already happened.If you are referring to our application which was refused then yes,a cash bond of half a million pounds was offered as security, a promise if you will,which the RFL, in their infinite wisdom, declined.If you are referring to our succesful bid this year then it matters not as administration is no longer important so no promise necessary.

i thought wakefild council was building a community stadium for the city?.

Whilst it wasn't in a franchise period the rfl did checks on clubs to see if they would be able to be promoted i'm pretty sure when the rfl asked widnes in 2007 about there finances they didn't say 'actually we are well and truly stuffed don't consider us for promotion'

No, the council has refused to build a stadium for any of the 3 teams in the district, they have said they would provide land worth 2m to borrow against for cas and wakey (but not fev, which is wrong imho). The wakefield stadium is billed as stadium for the whole city, although as far as i am aware only trinity will be using it.

a letter of invitation was sent to all sporting clubs in the district as i recall, some chose to be involved others including cas chose not to.

I wasnt having a dig mate just trying to clear things up for the poster i qouted, i'm just saying as far as i am aware only wakey will be using it, sorry if i'm wrong.

You will save money on a trophy cabinet cause lets face it none of you 2 will be winning anything

probably not, but a lot can happen in 3 years, which trophies were wigan and warrington winning 3 years ago?

Name the year one of them to clubs won a major trophy! NOT A NL1 ONE

I think you was still a twinkle in your dads eye when that happened

But you haven't cleared anything up , you suggested that Widnes were fortunate to have a council that was willing to build a stadium that they could use , and that your council won't build a stadium for you to use , which is not true , is it ?

Well Wakefield council will not build even one stadium for all 3 clubs in the district to share, so all the other teams with council funded stadiums are very fortunate.