Totally agree, you had my backing for a spot in SL.

Yet they still didn`t get in!

The Crusaders look like going the same way as Gateshead, lets not try and patch it up and make it work. A meger with Widnes would save the situation and ensure that a least everyone comes out with something. The last thing the game wants is for the Crusaders to go belly up in May next year, that would be very damaging.

Widnes need to be in the SL and SL needs them in.

The next thing we need to do is look at the way we are throwing these developing teams into the fray and then leaving them to flounder. Gateshead where not given the support the RFL promised and I bet the South Wales team have had much the same level of support. I think we pushed both teams into the top flight to enhance our claim to be more then a Northern sport. Twice we have failed and I suspect it will always fail without a good supporting network of amateur teams. London is slowly getting there and we need to nurture that, the French was always going to be successful due to the game being strong there. Wales is a pipe dream that is not going to happen, we keep trying and we keep failing.

Learn the lesson and move on to another area, if you must but don't rush it. We can not, should not draft teams into SL willy nilly anymore,.

THEY HAVE TO GET THERE BY EARNING THE RIGHT TO BE THERE

Question though, why should Widnes be used as the vehicle save face as it were and to mop up the mess made by the RFL?

Simply because they are about the only club who could at short notice take up the challenge of SL now. Leigh are well out of it Fax could be but the time thing would work against them.

Widnes is also closer Wales


The mess has to be cleared up as any failures mid season would be far more damaging for the sport as a whole. The union hacks would have a field day and if the RFL helped them one or two other clubs would also taken on the role of wounded ducks.

You sort it now and quickly

CelWid Crukings

Sounds fairly welsh

I'd be very surprised if the RFL could afford to fund the club for a year.

Mergers dont work in this country simple.

There is no need to even try it.

Give Celtic more time and so extra help. Bet if they had done that with Gateshead there is every chance they might still be there now.

One season is nowhere near enough.

Widnes dont need it either, they are fine as they are and will get their chance

That would be a much more appealing and respectable offer. I think during the next 12 months the club could move into the position where it can make an effective contribution to Super League.

All of this aside and I think it's been repeated already, Steve O'Connor has stated that the RFL has not made any approach whatsoever towards Widnes and that Super League 2012 is still the target.

Think you missed 'not' out.

You post some absolute garbage at times.