We aren't a SL club, let's face it. If we're honouring our commitments before
accepting our actual status within our abilities surely that's a good thing?

So what?

This ^^^

One word - Honour.

We are an SL club that has completely lost its direction only in recent years owing to a handful of extremely poor decisions. I maintain that with the right leadership and structure going forward, then this club can grow. This clearly is not in place at present but the idea of dropping to the Championship is on par with the recent idea of a supporters buy-out in terms of realism/sustainability (nil).

jayBS said we'd get 500 crowds. I disagreed.

Hmmm ok. But if we get our own stadium then we have a far better chance of building to a sustainable SL club than if we keep on doing what we've been doing for the last 20 years: renting expensive stadiums and throwing money at expensive players and getting nowhere.

Bugger that. If the idea is we are dropping down to re-build, it needs to happen now. If we're going to release a load of our high earners and play largely with kids next year, there is absolutely no point doing it in SL. Give the kids a chance and drop down, to give them the best chance of bedding in and building a viable championship side for SL re-entry - if that is what the club is thinking

yes I agree with that

I would hope every supporter would. I find it hard to believe that the RFL wouldn't come up with some way of preventing us from treating the sport in such a shabby fashion (they'd hopefully kick us out early as The Penguin suggests). I know we would technically be doing nothing wrong as we are free to spend what we like but it stinks IMO and drags the game even further down. Load of nonsense if you ask me.

Unfortunately I find it very easy to believe that the RFL would allow us to treat the game like that. At the Crusaders game on Sunday a club official was bringing round the Northern Rail Bowl so that people could have their photos taken with it and said that they could well be the only winners as it might not be competed for again, but it wasn't any use asking the RFL what was happening as they wouldn't know. The RFL's reputation at all levels of the game is now very bad.

I wish Cas had had as much help as London have over the last twenty years. That said I wish you luck and hope you are still in S/L when wakey and Widnes get relegated next year

and exactly what help has that been?

Someone will give us an answer 1 day. This could be the guy!

It is one of the great myths that pervade M62 land, but none of them can tell you exactly what help the RFL have been!