Of course you were going to beat us...you had a team full of rather good illegal immigrants!

Care to explain how they were illegal immigrants?

I just thought they did not have work permits.

Just a shame you didn't tell them back then that you stealing money from them. Maybe they would have tried less.

So they were working illegally in the country and were from abroad....sounds like illegal immigrants to me

What's a Widnes "tradition"?

Isn't that (not necessarily the same teams) what is supposed to happen, one team kicked out and one promoted based on the franchise applications and then next round of franchises in 2015?

What? The single way RL can compete with other UK Sports is to replace a team that notionally represents the RL aspirations (such as they may be) of a whole country, with a small championship club of dodgy recent financial history, limited recent achievement and very limited interest even to its own town? [iThat[/i would do the trick? That would make us competitive with other sports in the UK?

I mean, I like Widnes and sadly am old enough to recall when they were a power in the game, but really!? How do you work that out, then?

Maybe another compromise could be with SL going to 15 clubs and licences renewed in 2015. A new TV deal will have to be reached for 2012 onwards and a 15 club league could offer a lot more than 14.
Widnes in and no one out.

Why does it have to be Widnes?

Ok this is not meant to be a dig at all at Widnes, but funny old thing about a year ago when the Welsh up sticks and shoved 2 fingers up to there supporters in South Wales, it seemed blatantly obvious to me that they might as well start calling them the widnes crusaders from then on!

Back to the original post, the story was going to be reported "tomorrow", which presumably meant today. Is there any sign of it other than on this reliable source of rumour?

Nope! When does YEP get released online and in shops?