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Did we expect any other outcomes

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The most underwhelming announcement in RL History...

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but has actually led to Rugby League being the lead story on the BBC Website for the first time in a long while!

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Quote: mmp "but has actually led to Rugby League being the lead story on the BBC Website for the first time in a long while!'"

Although a little sad that it's only because it's a Thursday dinnertime!

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[sizeWidnes Vikings reclaim Super League place [/size


Widnes have won back their Super League place for the first time since 2005.

[iThe Vikings were granted a three-year licence ahead of Halifax at Thursday's Rugby Football League announcement at their Red Hall headquarters in Leeds.

But Halifax met the RFL's criteria and can carry on with their application in the hope of also being admitted to Super League for 2012.

The third of the Super League contenders Barrow's bid was rejected as they did not meet the criteria.

"Today is the culmination of a lot of work over the last three years but the job is not done, it only starts now," said owner Steve O'Connor, who has ambitious plans to make the club a force once again.

Widnes were the big losers when the licensing system was introduced three years ago, when Salford and Celtic Crusaders were admitted to an expanded 14-team league.

But they have since made rapid strides under O'Connor, a local businessman whose original passion was football, since he brought them out of administration in the autumn of 2007.

He had been at the club only nine months when Widnes were rejected in 2008. But he has since poured around £2.3m of his own money into the club.

Widnes, whose previous stay in Super League was between 2002 and 2005, were rejected as much for their lack of youth development as for their off-field failures three years ago.

And O'Connor says that the club have since been active in putting down roots.

"We had a meeting at Red Hall after we failed last time," said O'Connor. "And the RFL made it very clear that the area we had to work on was youth development.

"The youngsters that are just starting to come through now are the result of a process we started a few years ago."


Steve O'Connor brought Widnes Vikings out of administration in 2007
O'Connor also has a wealth of experience to draw on from Paul Cullen, their director of rugby, former Wigan and Great Britain star Denis Betts, the head coach and his former club and international team-mates Mick Cassidy and Terry O'Connor.

Thursday was also the deadline for existing Super League clubs under threat of losing their licences to submit new bids for 2012. And it remains a possibility that not just one but two current Super League clubs could yet be jettisoned to make way for a second Championship club.

Wakefield and Crusaders will both have trodden nervously after their financial faltering in recent months.

The two struggling clubs both went into administration over the winter and started the season on -4 points.

With doubts over the suitability of their current ground at Belle Vue and a delay over their plans to build a new stadium, Wakefield are thought to have based their application on an initial ground-share with football neighbours Barnsley at Oakwell.

But, although his club are widely thought to be the club most at risk of losing their Super League place, Wakefeld chairman Andrew Glover sounded a defiant message as he submitted his club's bid.

"It's taken all the team here virtually four solid weeks to compile," said Glover, who brought the club out of administration just six weeks ago.

"The full document is over 700 pages, outlining our plans for the future of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in Super League."

The decision on that will not be made until 26 July but it offers hope to Halifax, members of Super League from its foundation in 1996 to 2003, who are making their second application in three years.

"We have done everything the Rugby League asked of us since our last application, like the youth team and the stadium," said Halifax director Mike Riley. "And we've been in back-to-back Grand Finals."

Barrow's application was based on the importance of a Super League presence in Cumbria.

But the region will remain unrepresented at English rugby league's highest level since Workington were relegated at the end of the inaugural season in 1996.[/i

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[iGood luck to everybody involved with the Widnes Vikings club.[/i

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Well done Widnes.

I cannot see, in spite of the above article, the Welsh being refused as Sky's attitude here is very obvious. So who is going?

I would like to know (but, very probably, never will) what was said to Halifax.

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I'm very pleased for everyone connected with the Widnes club. Credit to Steve O'Connor who took the disappointent like a man three years ago and stuck at it when he must have felt like not putting another penny into RL. eusa_clap.gif

Commiserations to both Halifax and Barrow who I'm sure worked very hard on their applications.

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Chip sales are going to be down in Widnes for the next few years.

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I don't think that anyone can argue that after winning the Northern Rail cup 2 years ago they thoroughly deserve it.

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Quote: N.K.O.T.T "I don't think that anyone can argue that after winning the Northern Rail cup 2 years ago they thoroughly deserve it.'"



icon_lol.gif Yeah, not like us who cheated our way up after only winning the league and the grand final

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The RFL and the whole franchise system is a complete and utter joke!!

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