i wonder if anybody told widnes that. it is obviously better and in 5 years all the championship clubs will be ed because they don't have a fair footing and can't gain promotion bar the odd cases. not mentioning the yo-yoing of average players.

yeah like Widnes, Like Salford, Like Les Catalans.

My team makes a profit, has won numerous titles with a squad built around young local players it developed, it owns its own stadium and has an average attendance larger than the entire village of Featherstone.

They arent mismanaged. They are managed very very well.

Your problem is that you need to believe that the worst of Super League is representative of the whole of Super League. It isnt. Being better than our worst, will not get you close to the likes of Widnes or Salford next year, never mind the likes of Les Catalans, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wigan, Saints, Warrington, Hull, Hull KR.

Featherstone first team now would probably have 20 points put on them by Leeds or Wigans 2nd team.

We have already seen the likes of Hardman, Briggs, Moore, James, Ellis, Crossley, Sharp, Dale, Saxton at SL level and they weren’t up to scratch. And these aren’t your Amor’s your Walmsley’s your Hill’s who were young and dropped out and came back a bit more mature. These are players at their peak and older. Fev's squad is probably at least 15 players away from being a competitive SL squad.

lol yeah leads are doing well and so is the fev contingent leeds dont have an average crowd of 18000. While on the subject of population then Fevs attendance per population is miles better than leeds

At least with the new system if a team does go up they will be worthy of it. Widnes the season they went up lost by an aggregate of over 90 points to fev. they had much more to make up to be competitive than a team winning it from 2015 will have to do.

Leeds are well managed currently another 13 teams in superleage, not all are well managed like leeds

End of the day I will wait and see, Im not gonna start using speculation and opinion as facts like you always do

Several clubs failed in the short period that we had a licensed league,twist and squirm all you want,thats whats happened.

If bradford & Wakefield had been relegated out of the licensed league when they went into"what should have been"unacceptable financial meltdown,we would still have licensing now.

Instead we now have the same clubs being given 400k from the 2017 tv deal just to prop them up some more

Neither Bradford nor Wakefield have finished in a relegation place

Ah I thought this had all been put to bed months ago.

I see it was just a matter of the protesters bidding their time.

I know why don't we let the SL chairmen vote on it!!!!!

Oh they did?

Well lets dump the democratic idea and have one overlord to make all the decisions, what they had that too years ago and dumped that idea.

I dunno, people wanting to make up their own minds, it will never work.

So what

So P+R would have neither solved nor addressed the situations at Bradford or Wakefield, The system we have in place is irrelevant to their failure which was solely down to bad management.

It worked for my club. It allowed us to spend money on our ground and our jnr system rather than spending it all on first team for fear of relegation.

Why you talking to me about P&R.
I said two clubs bradford and wakefield should have been relegated out of the licensed league when they went into administration
Its irrelavent to me whether clubs replaced them or not

Im saying that whatever system we have, the issues at Bradford and Wakefield would be apparent, and they wouldnt have been solved by simply relegating them.