Widnes have shown the model to replicate, go out full in the first season to secure a trophy or GF appearance and then develop the club off the field, reduce the inevitable drop off in attendances and maintain a decent junior pathway. All these are in the control of the club, but sadly the stadium is not.

After 12 years in super league we have not progressed enough.We should of moved on and improved a lot more than we have.I think its nailed on its us for the chop and it hurts.We have never finished bottom of super league and we have produced some great players but its not about what happens on the pitch anymore.For me the magic has gone out of Rugby league,I used to go to all international matches and cup finals but I wouldn't support these now .I still care about Trinity and I will be there when we are kicked out.I don't care about super league/sky/Murdoch/ . We were kicked out without finishing bottom in 1995 and we came back. We have never finished bottom of super league and there kicking us out again.
For whats its worth I think Celtic will be bust again within a year,you can't keep a team going with less than a 1000 fans.
We are been relegated in place of these made up expansionist teams who virtually no one watches .

They have already done that. Widnes have got their licence on the basis of their application being better than Halifax's. It is possible* that a club with a better application will not get a licence as a result.

* Admittedly this seems unlikely but it would be silly to prejudge applications that might not have even been submitted yet.

I know. It shows how stupid they are to repeat the same stupid mistake

It's not a mistake - the franchise application process is a way of dressing up the selection of which clubs the RFL does and doesn't want in the competition; it's very deliberate.

100% agree.