Quote Tommy Duckfingers="Tommy Duckfingers"In your opinion, what criteria do the Catalans and London bids beat ours?'"
a. Commercial, Marketing, Media and Community. -
=#FF0000IMO we win this one
b. Facilities. -
=#FF0000You'd have to give this to all 3 expansion clubs over ours (based on Belle Vue)
c. Finance. -
=#FF0000Crusaders in admin but emerged with still massive debts, London bailed out time and again and unsustainable without Sugar Daddy, Catalans I'm not sure about. Depends on the focus on past performance and future performance - going forward we look to be able to beat at least 2 of the 3
d. Governance and Business Management. -
=#FF0000Again depends on bias between past and future performance, going forward again i would say we look to be in the best position
e. Playing Strength and Player Performance Strategy -
=#FF0000Andrew Glovers claim to be able to spend full salary cap underlines how our playing strength could improve, past 2 seasons we have finished 5th then 11th (average 8th place), good junior teams, plenty of youngsters coming through (not necessarily all by choice but still there)
Where we will lose out is the other factor that the RFL have put in to make sure they can do whatever they want, which says:
The licenses will be allocated to those clubs that the RFL board believes are the most suitable, taking into account the:
a. Extent to which each club helps meet the SLE Strategy and the strategic aims and objectives of the Licensing process;
b. Historical activity of the clubs under consideration; and
c. RFL’s reasonable opinion as to future performance of the clubs under consideration.
Point a) in that list is the one that will kill us more than anything else IMO