Quote: PADDERS "Wrong again Teesside wire !
I do remember our club was in dire straights and nobody helped us out and we never begged other clubs for help we got rid of the problem and restructured the whole business and prospered !
The RL world has changed since but I do remember the RFL telling us get a new stadium or we won't stay in SL which we did before anyone else !
I would prefer Bradford to stay but if they need to step down and restructure fair enough I won't lose any sleep over it they've lived beyond their means and are now paying the price just like Widnes did but I don't remember the RFL and the league as a whole try and save Widnes they let them go down and restructure to come back later !
I do think the league needs to be smaller and the RFL need IMO admit the London experiment has failed there's no support for a club down south , also Wakey and Cas should merge or both go as non of those three teams are competitive with anyone bar themselves !
I'm all for a SL 2 with 10 teams in both leagues and one up one down with a relegation final between the bottom on SL and top of SL 2
Top 9 play off in SL to decide Grand final line up rather than top 8 !
I will repeat my self I do hope Bradford survive as a SL club but they have to do it on their own merits not off the backs of others and fix their problems and restructure !'"
I'm not wrong at all. You give an opinion and then seem to think that others aren't entitled to one. Then when someone criticises your posts you go off on one. Widnes weren't allowed to go down and re-structure. The re-structuring came after they spent everything in a failed attempt to get promoted back into SL. My criticism was of you suggesting we bin the Bulls, who still have a reasonably large following, a replace them with Halifax, who don't have a large following and couldn't even put a semi-reasonable business plan together last year.
As regarding your Top Nine play-off in a league of 10 teams, we might as well do away with the normal season and just have play-off games.
