He does mention leigh first but he also says "especially" Widnes not that I'm splitting hairs

But I think we're all in agreement that if our club's finances went to the wall the RFL wouldn't go to half the efforts they are going for the Crusaders. While everyone is wrapped up in this fiasco at the RFL I wonder how much help Keighley are getting. A proper heartland club who are being neglected really in favour of this circus.

If commitments and guarantees are broken it should be the same rules for whatever club regardless of location. Noble has now said that he is going to fill the the clubs quota of 14 overseas players. And there was me thinking franchising was to develop youngsters for the international stage.

What's happening with the visa irregularities enquiry?

The whole thing makes my blood boil

just short of 5k if my memory serves. Better than Salford and Broncos. Wonder what our crowds would have been if we had won a few more than 2 games.

Yes widnes went bust but it was in completely different hands to the ones it is now. It annoys me the constant harping on about how we were rather snookered a couple of years ago. So were London Broncos/Harlequins. Only difference being the RFL bent over backwards to keep them at top table. But in Widnes' case it was given as the reason they couldn't go in to super league. One rule for one, entirely different for another. The club has never been run better than it is now and the entire set up just belongs in super league! Holding a fiasco that occured under a different watch against our current chairman who has been dignified and levelheaded throughout was, and still is, a travesty.

But lets be fair you wouldn't have known or cared about that fiasco had you won that GF game and got in SL. You are now proving your worth off the field.

Well there wouldnt have been a fiasco if we'd have won and gone up

We put all our badly laid eggs in one basket and got shown up.

Fair enough. It was a terrible move made by terrible business people.

What the holy hell that has to do with the present is beyond me. We have more wealth than we have ever had. We are making investments in our future. Making improvements. Surely that should outweigh a badly judged past risk?

In any other walk of life, an organisation that nearly bit the dust forever, only to work hard to get back to some sort of steady ground (this is the RFL after all!) would be commended and not have past wrongs rammed down their throats.