Nowt new there then is there.

Quote: sanjunien "it's criminal that Widnes didn't make it in 2009 at the expense of the welsh lot - [sizeit's done nowt for the game[/size,only made it look more amateurish and more badly run than ever'" www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1486

Quote: sanjunien "it's criminal that Widnes didn't make it in 2009 at the expense of the welsh lot - [sizeit's done nowt for the game[/size,only made it look more amateurish and more badly run than ever'" www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1486

quite,that's the problem nothing seems to change - maybe we need the Will Carling approach ie a big name player to call the RFL a 'bunch of old farts' to get things changed ?

I just think they should have been thrown out of superleague and their place given to Widnes.

Again the RFL make themselves look like a bunch of idiots (I can think of better adjectives) every other club that has gone into admin has been docked the points equivelent to 3 games whatever league they were in.

The RFL have signalled their intent, so much was made of the Cru getting the playoffs this year, 4 pt deduction gives them the chance again this year great publicity for Sky (who are our paymasters).

Time for the RFL to tell the truth Sky want Cru, Cats and Quinns in at any cost, and they will sacrafice any other club for this except the topSL clubs.

As for some of the Cru fans coming on here giving it we have been punished with our point deduction get a life.

Why would Sky want Wakefield? What is idiotic about trying to secure the most money possible for the game?

Not only are championship clubs given a usual 3 win deduction...they have less games to make the ground up...the RFL are pathetic

certainly not tongue in cheek ! please post more international rugby bits & bobs if you want to try to justify the Crusaders debarcle by one great national performance against a poor french team on the day
The south wales venture was a great innovation but the events over the past year have done nothing for the credibility of SL or the RFL

As for the 4 point deduction

No comment

did people really expect the rfl to be consistent in its behaviour ?.

You are right.

Whitehaven have only 18 league games I think, at 3 points for a win = max 54 points.

Crusaders 27 games x 2 = max 54 points.

Whitehaven deducted 9 points, Cru 4 so clearly Haven's wrongdoing in entering administration was judged by the RFL to be worth more than twice the punishment of the Crusaders.

The 'debacle' involving improved crowds, increased junior development, vastly improved on-field performance etc? The club has 100x more credibility now, if you have posted this last year I could understand as the previous club was shambolically run but to say that thing have improved dramatically is an understatement. How can you possibly say the club in South Wales was better or had more credibility? You argued that Crusaders had done nothing for the game, that is so blatantly not the case. Equally you inferred that the RFL were a bunch of 'old farts', how can they possibly be described as that? The actions that seem to cause such antagonism are surely ones that are completely the opposite of what 'old farts' would do? Your posts made so little sense that I honestly assumed you were taking the p"ss.