Who does not deserve their place in Super League?

Quote: jeffvickers "Harlequins - average 3000 crowds in a city of millions.

Wakefield - poor crowds, poor players , poor ground.

I wouldn't mind seeing Catalans gone too. No away fans and a £400 bill per person to watch your team play them. + how much on flights for the clubs every week. An expensive pointless experiment.'"

I will bite on this one :

Crowds - over double the average of Crusaders and Harlequins and better than Salfords by a distance despite them having a better playing squad and a virtual guarantee of SL next season. Our crowds would almost certainly improve further with another SL licence in the bag and ability to further strengthen the club both on and off the field.

Poor Players - As an overall squad I would agree it is poor, but we do have some good players in there otherwise why would a number of them be lined up to sign contracts with other SL clubs (and not just Widnes) when we go down. You also have to factor in the Admin left us unable to strengthen the squad as has the uncertainity re a new licence. Clearly if by some miracle we received a new licence, then with another 3 years of guaranteed SL rugby, we would be able to recruit a much better squad. Final point on this - if our squad is poor what does it say for Crusaders who are currently 4 points worse off with on paper a lot better squad and Harlequins who despite having a 4 point head start still haven't won as many games as us.

Poor Ground - Agreed. However, the club has been making some general low level improvements throughout the season and have submitted plans to upgrade BV or play out of Oakwell (although the RFL dissuaded us from the latter option) if we stay in SL until a decision on Newmarket is reached early next year, therefore the facilities would no longer be poor.

So to summarise your first point is plain wrong and the other 2 only apply to our current situation rather than if we had a new SL licence.