Maybe there has been no RL council meeting since the club was informed of this so no one has asked them WHY???? infact there is no maybe about it we were informed when we told the rfl about our plans, so you presume wrongly at this stage no one has asked them why because the opportunity has not yet arisen.
And who is Arthur Rowley? as Arthur Thomas our chairman attended the meeting not ALLAN ROWLEY.

Couldn't give a monkeys who it was Fred... apologies for not knowing the intricacies of your boardroom.

The point still stands... When Arthur Thomas was speaking to this select few last night... was he not asked why Leigh were not being allowed to run a scholarship?
If he simply did not know why then why didn't he ask the question when he was being informed? Surely it would have been the first thing to come out of his mouth.
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I doubt the RFL would have made such a decision without having thought out some reasons that they could give for having made this decision.

The RFL didn't give us a reprieve because they thought we added value to the division. We got the reprieve because another club went pear shaped and effectively took our relegation spot. Batley would've got the same reprieve. (If you look at the football, its something RMI benefitted from for a few years in the conference).

The cynic in me suggests that the is more to it, in which the bigger picture is for the Championship to become like an equivalent of the Aussie's Premier League (think that's what its called). I.e. a 2nd grade feeder club. Dual registrations was the start of it.

RFL - think? Whats that, think for the good of the game, or think for the greedy selfish SL clubs. At the end of the day the RFL are no longer there for all there member clubs, they are ruled over by the SL clubs, they do not rule the SL clubs.

Oh and I understood what Fred was saying.

i was on the leigh scholarship system and just recieved a text confirming this.

So the RFL have made a decision on your Scholarship scheme and no-one from last night or possibly from your club thought fit to ask why?

You really dont understand how the RFL works do you ?

Why are you asking on here, i'm sure you can get AR or AT by phoning the club. See official site for details. My guess is that the rfl decided no one else could afford it but surely that is a decision for the clubs themselves and not the rfl

Looks like it.

ATEOTD the sl clubs cannot bring through enough juniors for the future development of our game. Still at least the championship clubs can't now be blamed for that.........or can they

I agree with you. I was at the LISA meeting when AT told those attending.Did I ask why the RFL had done this ? No because AT seemed as dumbfounded by it as everyone who has contributed to this thread.

Now if anyone takes the trouble to write to the RFL about what has been said and you get a response I for one will be surprised.

In six months time when they do respond they will deny saying anything of the sort. Bit like "Toulouse have to qualify the same as other Champ teams, but have a clause in their rules which state any foreign team invited to apply by the RFL can.

Thanks Derek I thought it was plain myself, AT wouldn't have been informed personally but by (I presume the PP manager who would be discussing such issues with the RFL reps) someone who recieved the info, hence he wouldn't have had the opportunity to ask the RFL why, and the person at the RFL may have not told the Leigh person who recieved the info the reason. I even doubt whether there has been time to have it discussed in a board meeting, when it has I expect a full disclosure will be given.


The 'select few' were people at an open meeting.

But don't Widnes depend on O'Connor, and several other SL teams depend on just one benefactor. eg What would happen to the Giants if they lost their benefactor

Wilkinson at salford