Does anybody know when clubs must submit their applications and when the announcement about who will be involved 2012-2015 will be announced?

About this time next year is announcement time, I'm guessing applications will have to be in jan/feb time tbh

Ok thanks somebody said yesterday that they had to be in for November. The championship club would be told in Spring and the leaving Super League side told in the summer. Didn't sound right so thought i'd check.

That could be right, im completely guessing tbh it could well be november but I think they'd announce the winners of the franchise together in June/July

wonder if any club as been told already

Wouldn't it be better announcing the licence apps at the end of the 2011 season ?

No.

It gives the promoted club a chance to recruit a better squad, if notified earlier. Otherwise there’ll be no one of any real quality left, because all the SL clubs will have snapped up all the talent, leaving the newly licenced club with the scraps.

I think they’ll announce the promoted club around june/July 2011, and the demoted club will probably find out at the end of the season, for obvious reasons.

Yep, imagine the agro at games with the SL team kicked out, what's to stop riots/protests/players head hunting etc?




It's the RFL, they will balls it up somehow, probably tell the teams the wrong way round

Unless the RFL and clubs have made a change since it was first announced, the applications will be submitted in 2011. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80 ... e_licences

Unless the RFL and clubs have made a change since it was first announced, the applications will be submitted in 2011. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80 ... e_licences

Is it absolutely certain that at least one current Super League club will lose its place and that at least one Championship club will get a license? The Wikipedia article cited above simply says that Championship clubs which win the cup or reach the Grand Final are eligible to apply not that they are guaranteed a place. People occasionally say that the RFL has promised that at least one Championship club will get a license next time around but I can't find any official statement to that effect.

there was def a comment to that effect. Seems crazy to me, what if teh Sl club is stronger than than the CC1 club, what would be the sense in relegating one to repalce with a weaker one?

That's not the case though is it? There's about 4 SL clubs on a weaker footing all round than Widnes and about 3 behind Leigh. Plenty of scope for kicking out. And that's how it should be. That's the whole point of the system - not only to improve those clubs without licenses but also to make sure those with them don't sit back and fart their privilege away. 2011 will be a wake up call for some clubs and rightly so.

You have been smoking something seriously bad for you, if you honestly think that!

Get a grip! No matter how many times people post dross on here, it doesn't make it any more truthful or likely to happen.

There certainly is room for improvement, but there are not 4 clubs that Widnes could replace (and the RFL haven'the balls to get rid of the one they could).

There are no clubs that Leigh could replace.

...... and sure enough - the first reply from a fan of one of those clubs