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Or financial ruin, spending what isn't coming in leads down that road.

Hope your lot don't finish in the bottom 2/3, with Toulouse. That would put the cat amongst the pigeons!

I suspect every championship team will be wanting to get one over on Widnes next season, they'll find it tough. Can't see them finishing that low tbh but the SL decision will have been made within the first 2/3 weeks of the season.

Yes it will be glorified friendlies but there are still boxes to tick for 2015, and we all start back at zero boxes ticked

Littler and Mcgillvary (sp) both ex Salford.

there is every point if they expect to sell season tickets

doesn't the box ticking start again in 2012 as this up & coming season doesn't count?

It does count otherwise you only have 2 years to tick boxes. Its a 3 year franchising process. 2008 when Salford and Celtic were promoted was the first year of qualifying for SL 2012 but as Salford and Celtic were the ones who got to the GF no one ticked that box. Decisions are made before the NRC final and GF therefore they don't count for 2012 but do for 2015. Is your head hurting yet

yes it does now

thanks for clearing that one up

Derek, I don't think the RFL has said anything about a Championship team going up in 2015 yet, have they?

No and I doubt they will I think after this next year the only ones going up will be because someone has has gone "bank".

If only!!

No I know that. I was just explaining, just in case the RFL decide they don't actually want to kill off two thirds of their member clubs.

Seems the plan doesn't it ? Not 2 mention a couple of Non Relegation league clubs.

These guys running the RFL makes you wonder if they are not all ex bankers or something connected to the Lawn Tennis Association or spend their evenings watching endless reruns of Sky at night

It will get worse when these know nothings embrace the idea of warp drive.

3 to be announced at press conference Tuesday morning

i think they will vote to expand the SL numbers by one, nobody losing a franchise in 2015.

I doubt that because they then look at losing about 7% of their Sky money. At least 3 Non Relegation clubs have mega debts and turkeys do not vote for christmas because they have more sense than the person currently chairman of the RFL. He still does not know the LSV has been built even though he has been there.

What time is the press conference or has it been cancelled due to lack of interest from the press

no press available Derek they are all following Rooney about

Three

Well it's a start, just another 14 to go and we may have a decent squad.

I've only heard one up to now.

Maybe they're leaving it up to Fred to announce the other two, seeing as he put the info on here yesterday

other two gone elsewhere???

Maybe they thought they would give Stuart the lime light on his own as he is from Leigh and then name the other signings later in the week ,just a thought