Nice press release, but would they have said the same if Fax had achieved SL status?

Somehow I doubt it.

well nik you have outdone yourself on that one what a stupid statement to make of course they wouldn't have but I would have liked to see the one by the demoted club get your head out of your SLE/RFL loving backside and have a good look at the Rugby League world.

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Why not launch a campaign to every RL club asking them NOT to apply for a SL licence in 2014 as a protest. That will screw the system up. Of course the fat cats already in there would never go for it. As for the Fax campaing I'd dump the Hate RFL bit (even though we all do). Just promote the campaign for P&R to be reinstated,

I'd even leave the P and R bit alone GKR , all we want is a fair share of their time , money and respect , which at the moment we don't get

Unless Quins get their act together in the next 3 seasons this franchising means what for the pro game ?

Fax or Leigh or some other club gets the nod and then what happens to the Championship ?

Maybe this protest will prove to be academc which is what I predicted would happen when this idiotically transparently ridiculously silly suicidal' nothing to do with competativeness' system was introduced almost 3 seasons ago.

When it all goes wotsits up Richard Lewis will join one of those nationlised Banks.

The franchise idea might be scrapped sooner than some think.

Good one Fred............ ................
Enter stage right the RFL apologists , chewing cloth........You know can`t refrain yourselves from your political rhetoric.

Franchising has split the support in this country - that is certain.
You can argue around in circles to the benefits / disadvantages caused by it as it depends on your viewpoint.

However the Celtic situation(s) has been some ill thought out set of ideas since day one and with each day comes more scandal that is doing the game no favours.
A chance to really move into Wales might have been lost due to poor groundwork and ill thought out plans, equally the Toulouse situation cannot be ignored as that has also been a huge expense for little return in a league where money is very tight.

I think the RFL do some brilliant work and to see comments aimed at the 'RFL' is to taint every employee of that organisation - some who are doing fantastic jobs in trying circumstances.
However there has been some seriously poor decisions made concerning Celtic which have brought the game into disrepute, I'm sure it wasn't intentional but I feel the decent thing is for one of Mr Lewis or Mr Wood to do the decent thing and step aside and take the scandal out of the situation.
IMO the game needs a new man or women to come in learn from the errors and take us forward without this constant reference to failure which will always slow us down and make a fair percentage of support untrusting of it s governing body - that cannot be allowed to happen.

Mr Lewis or Mr Wood should do the decent thing IMO for the good of the game.

Unfortunately every organisation is seen to be only as good as it's 'head' people as its those same people who take all the applaudits yet in the RFL's case seem reluctant to take the 'brickbatts' (which is I suppose the same as every large organisation) the RFL govern a sport with tens of thousands of supporters yet seem to take none of those supporters ideas/complaints etc.. onboard, instead they find a 'fall guy' to take thethe blame in any one 'cock up' and seem to do it as an 'It's your turn next' scenario.

You lot are funny.
Instead of jumping on an ill informed bandwagon (the OP was blatantly drunk), why don't you wait for Halifax's press release following the feedback.
Under the clubs' agreement the RFL cannot disclose the information only Halifax can, only, where is it? If their chairman likes his ranting and raving i'm sure he'll only be too happy to disclose the 'lies' told by the RFL, only he wont, because Halifax's bid was in fact, tosh.

How do you know Halifax's bid was tosh Dico?

Because he is Dicky Lewis

I think the Halifax club needs to be very careful in how it responds to its supporters when it give its reasons why it thinks it was turned down for a licence.
If it clams up and tells them nothing or very little then the supporters will start to vent there anger on the club instead of the rfl and if that happens then all the hard work they've done over the last 3 years or so will have been wasted.