Really would like to see Widnes back in the superleague.

It's a Northern sport RL, and it will always be so.

Please enlighten us!

another troll, ignore him

Should have said a work college said he doesn't think it will be ready in time for 2012. Happier?

just get rid of them ive never agreed with them being let in since day 1 teams are trying season after season to get promoted they come along and get given a place its a disgrace the annoying thing is this should count against them next year but i bet cas or wakey still get given the boot

They finished second in the Championship and made the play off Grand Final. They and Salford were the two best teams outside Super League the year they were granted a Super League Licence.

For me I want us to keep a team in Wales, after all it would be a shame considering Crusaders achievements last year on the pitch and Wales earning a place in next years 4 nations! For me, accepting we are northern sport and nothing will change is not the way we should be looking... Expansion within the GB can only enhance our game, even though you can argue against that! I believe a larger pool of players will also help us internationally! Back to the Welsh, it would be a shame to lose Crusaders I think they were a success this year and long may that grow!

14 teams in SL is too many, there aren't enough clubs who can be viable. I know people talk about Widnes all the time but if Widnes come up they will struggle and struggle and I bet in a couple of years time you will hear about financial crisis at the club again and administration. Then you get calls for a Cumbrian franchise, exactly the same would happen, they would last a couple of years and then go bust. It was hardly 'unpredicted' when Celtic Crusaders came in, that they would get in this sort of mess.

The irony is that on the other side you get people saying Wakefield should be forced out of SL and lose their licence to let an expansion team/Widnes come in, but despite having a rocky ride in the last decade, Wakey have managed to keep their heads above water and survive. The only expansion team that has managed to make it without going bust is Catalans because there's money and infrastructure in France, so if we let a new team in I would be looking there at places like Toulouse, even if they aren't a huge success on the field at first at least the French clubs have got money behind them.

Celtic were always going to be another Gateshead Thunder mind you if Widnes had been allowed up instead I bet they would have ended up going bust as well. Widnes might make it up in the next year or so and it feels right to have them in the top division because of their history but it will be sad to see them come up and just be everyones whipping boys until they go bust again.

the crusaders project was doomed from the start,reduce sl to 12 teams and re-introduce promotion and relegation,easy peasy.wonder where that little halfback with the tache will end up.

Fewer teams = fewer games = higher admission charges = lower attendances

This will not help develop the game!

Fewer teams = fewer games = higher quality = better competition.

This will develop our game!