The big caged end behind the posts where until now all the unruly visiting fans were put, will be the first to go. That is going to be torn down in a few weeks to make way for a great new stand which will house the offices of the club, hospitality facilities like modern dining rooms for all the moneyed sponsors in France and Spain who are eagerly waiting to benefit from their support, a new merchandise shop, and last but not least lots of covered and elevated seating for all the well behaved visiting fans. This new stand is supposed to be finished by the beginning of 2010, bringing the total ground capacity to 11,500.

After lots of careful consideration, it has been decided that the dog poop will be retained, to give the modern facility a traditional European flavour.

preferably with cyanide mixed in

The comfort of the things as they are, rather than the uncertainty of an unknown future. That is what knee jerk conservatives are like, not just in politics, but in life generally.

It is a mental ailment especially strong in west Yorkshire, but also in the other depressed neighbourhoods all over Britain.

The flatcappers are simply frightened little people with no imagination!

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So you were born a loony then

Look mate. Your Leigh have no chance of ever being in Super League. So face reality and make the best you can rather than trying to drag the others down.

Toulouse is the future -- not Leigh, nor Halifax, nor Barrow, nor Whitehaven nor Widnes. And after the success of Toulouse in Super League (from 2012 on)we will have to keep building on our successes.

That is, if you want the game to spread.

But I guess that you flatcappers don't want it to spread.

Look mate I didn't want Leigh to get a SL place and fully believe that they will never grace the top flight again , not a problem for me

Yes Toulouse will and the sooner the better

As for the game spreading , well if it is good enough it will spread but if it doesn't it will not overly bother me either way

But you are still a loony

AP makes some challenging suggestions, but I hope he's long enough in-the-tooth to remember that most of them were put up for consideration by the saintly Maurice Lindsay when forming SL in the first place. Good old Morrie knew the merger suggestions were preposterous, but used them to divert anger away from the entire change to summer rugby, the killing off of Keighley's ambitions and the sinking of the far-too-skint-to survive Chemics of Widnes provenance.

I'm all for expansion and am a big fan of Quins, Crusaders and Catalans being in RL, but mergers of heartland clubs are a bigger crock of coorape than was old Maurice's claim to have been acting 'for the good of the game'.

Here is the 12/14 team future Championship as I see it, after Toulouse joins Super League, and the little SL clubs with no modern stadium are demoted:

Salford
Wakefield
Castleford
Featherstone
Widnes
Halifax
Leigh
Whitehaven
Barrow

+ 1-2 English development clubs in preparation for SL (e.g. London II, a Midlands club)
+1-2 Celtic development clubs in preparation for SL (e.g. Dublin, Edinburgh)
+1-2 continental European development clubs in preparation for SL (e.g. Paris, Barcelona)

Until we reach the magic number of 24 Super League Europe clubs. At which point we will do a rethink of both Super League and the Championship.

I rest my case M'lud