Quote: Tricky2309 "Where is the evidence we promised to build a stadium? No one could possibly make that statement. The club may have said we have plans to move which we have had but through factors outside of the clubs control have not resulted in a ground being built.
You need to remember this is a sport and on field performance should be the ultimate measure so getting relegated for the state of the ground is not comparable to finishing bottom numerous times and being allowed to stay up'"
Quite right Tricky on field performance should ultimately dictate who goes up and who goes down however even now it doesn't work like that.
Who goes down is decided over 7 games plus a play off (MPG) as the competition has been abbreviated so in effect the team finishing bottom is not relegated and the team finishing top is not promoted. I believe that Huddersfield should have been relegated last season as we finished bottom of the league at the end of the season.
However that said if you apply that back over the years we aren't the only team by far that would have been relegated but when we were Ken kept us professional and we came straight back up again after a set of play offs.
So again if the top team at the end of the league season is not promoted and the bottom relegated due to the RFL's rules you can hardly blame them as I stated earlier it should be one up one down top up bottom down but it isn't.
As regards the Stadia thing 10/20 years back rugby league grounds were crumbling, Stadia that when built many years ago that would have been state of the art were dumps so the RFL introduced a criteria that part of the membership terms of the elite competition was having or playing in a ground that was fit for purpose as the exposure on Sky TV did Rugby League no favours by showing the game played in ancient stadiums that had not been looked after.
As someone who went to Fartown in the early 60's when it was tired but still sort of fit for purpose it broke my heart to move to Leeds Road and ultimately the current stadium but for fans of both Huddersfield Town and Fartown it was a necessity hence the partnership with the council and both clubs to build and maintain a Stadium fit for the purpose of being used for top tier sport.
Ironically when HTFC came within 24 hours of going bust Ken Davey stepped in to save them or ironically the JS would have been owned by Fartown and Kirklees and whilst in the long term it was right he stepped down and Duncan Hoyle stepped in as Ken due to his wife was claret and gold and Duncan blue and white both clubs have needed to coexist hence the stadium ownership arrangements continuing.
However Wakefield and Castleford have long been given special dispensation to break the rules based on promised new Stadia that as yet have not materialised.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with on field performance it is part of the terms and conditions of playing in the competition long known to all and only two teams now are in breach of the said rules.
Ownership methodology does not come into the SL terms and conditions so if Wigan are tenants and Huddersfield part owners it does not matter both clubs adhere to SL requirements.
So it is not Huddersfields fault that you may face expulsion from the League it is purely the terms of the competition that you play in.
I believe that the league will weaken once again and you will get more time but having been through the 'Sheffield ' thing I would have rather played in the Championship as purely Huddersfield in Huddersfield, as would 90% of the true fans, than in a different town in your case perhaps Dewsbury or Barnsley as eventually the Wakefield erodes away and the necessity to rename to attract local fans becomes essential as in the long term the travelling fan base erodes.
So to close this rather long missive perhaps you should concentrate on getting your own house in order and leave ours alone as from a Stadia point of view it's within the rules unlike yours and you really have had enough time to put it right we did !!!!!!!