Whitehaven and Barrow are way too far apart to merge. So thats a non starter.

Quite right,it would need to be a merger between whitehaven and workington.Then you need to ask the supporters do they want it.Then you need to ask the question were is the 15 million going to come from to build a stadium fit for purpose.

Halifax don't deserve to be there. Widnes do.

For that reason..... I'm out.

Both teams deserve to be there IMHO.

Widnes due to infrastructure, Halifax for being the best and most consistant team throughout the franchise period.

Both are rugby mad Towns,and both clubs capeable of generating large crowds.

Good luck to Halifax I say !!

As a lover of Rugby League I think Widnes would be better for Super League than Halifax. I'd probably go Toulouse over 'Fax too if they have as strong a structural set up as Catalans did when they were set up.

As much a I would prefer Fax to go up over anyone else, it won't happen because the forgotten question of an imbalance of teams over the Pennines will crop up. I know it's a feeble one but the RFL don't need much of one to put a expansion club in. Come to think of it the RFL don't need any excuses do they.

Ah but if the two to drop out were to both come from Yorkshire?

I would NEVER support FAX in any way ,i call them the LEECH club,they Stole our then Coach Steve Simms ,along with Paul Rowley ,and Simon Baldwin ,off us,and then a few years later offered us a Derogatory amount for Mikey Higham before he signed for saints ,and gave us Peanuts for Stu Donlan , i say stay where you are Fax.

As Halifax dont appear to be interested at all in investment of any youth policy I will see fit not to support them. How they can even be considered when they blatently don't support youth development is beyond me.

Ah but they do, they now have an U23 side, but have separate organisation throiugh which they want to raise 50,000 from the fans to run it. Token gesture after several years where they have stockpiled senior players allegedly on match payments only, with no reserve team.

several years? really? Must have been mistaken that they last played in 2007. And its £25k, that our supporters trust are funding.

But apart from that ,the rest of your post is garbage.

3 years, Coincidentally the period for SL qualification. All the money ploughed into the first team, whereas other teams have developed their own players. Now you have qulified to apply, you thought you had better show you were developing your own players. I reckon 3 years of no U21's/Reserves or whatever they have been over the last 3 years should and probably will count against you. That and the two fingers you effectively stuck up to the RFL with your 'amazing' crowd in your last home game of 2010, although that did make me laugh

I`m with you charlie on this one.

Is that right ' Nigel ' ?