Also hoping for Castleford, purely because of morrissey's knee-jerk.

bob on though isn't he.

Anyway we all know it should be Leeds for the drop.

Merge cas n wakey and form the south leeds wild tigers.

other than that - drop any team that voted to put us out of existence....

Not really, someone has had an opinion and he has seen it on some sort of attack on his beloved club and directed it right back us. There are plenty of decent reasons that would support the case for Castleford not to be awarded another franchise.

I think the little Irish fella got it right, pick the best 14 never mind saying there will def be 1 team up and possibly 2 which will mean 2 down
So if one team does lose out thats in the SL half way through the season, what happens if they they make the top 8 and get a good run, or even win something!!
Or half way through you get told you have not got a franchise for the next season why continue playing the rest of that season

So they reckon Widnes would be the prime candidates, ok going to incur the wrath but why another club thats within 20 miles of at least 3 or 4 other clubs
Merge cas and wakey!! yeah thats really going to happen without a fight, the prob they will both have is stadium!!
our crowd figures dont help but we have a decent home, even if we move!!! we will be in a decent size staduim

1 Commercial, marketing, media and community.

OK, Community work is brilliant but the other 2 we fail terribly.

2 Facilities.

Like Wigan, FC etc...we don't own it, but it is a great stadium.

3 Finance.

Depends on the RFL's view on this. DH is a great asset to the club (our only one if I'm honest, but apart from that, we are in terrible condition making a 1.5 mil + loss a year (operating loss...DH swallows it)

4 Governance and business management.

Governance is a tough one. We are obviously trying to cut our cloth accordingly, so we should be OK, but the losses of 30 to 50k a week do raise questions over the Business Management

5 Playing strength and player performance strategy.

Strength is a complete loss here. Strategy is an unknown, because I am sure Mac doesn't even know what the strategy is, so how the RFL will is a mystery.

I see us in the naughty chair with the clubs in Stadium trouble as well as the supposed financial strife that pops up every week or so on the VT.

Clenched bottom time for Quins RL IMO, but let's hope they get 3 more years and something changes at the club in the business department.

Nailed on

The one positive of us not getting a license would be having a good laugh at you and your posts regarding this topic

So was Jesus!
HTH

Will you lay me £1 at 100/1 please?

These boards are getting worse

the criterea you listed were for the non sl clubs looking at coming up

So what are the criteria for clubs in danger of going down? Surely they should be the same....or are they a la 2008? If so, we will score less points this time as we have NOT been competitive on the field.

Any championship clubs need to meet five criteria just to apply for a licence.

1) Win the NR Cup or finalist in Championship in either 2008 or 2009.
2) No insolvency over previous 3 or 4 years.
3) Minimum capacity of 10,000.
4) Turnover of at least £1million in 2008 or 2009.
5) Average attendance of 2,500 in 2008 or 2009.

If they meet the above then they'll be put against the five criteria listed earlier by gutterfax and the best one will get a spot in SL. One of the current SL clubs will make way for them because it will stay at 14 teams.