I think there is a disclaimer that if a club enters an application they throw away the right to contest the outcome.

Or Paris.

Sad state of affairs for RL

Perhaps we should just have Superleague played on a rolling basis:

Next year we announce the teams for 2012, the following year we announce the teams for 2013 etc

Pot 1: Widnes, Toulouse, Barrow, Featherstone, Barrow

Pot 2: All current clubs


1 club drawn from Pot 1 to replace 1 club drawn from Pot 2. Give the incoming club a minimum of 3 seasons but replace a different club every year.
Draw to be made before the start of the season before to allow clubs time to plan.


Sounds ridiculous doesn't it ???? But is it anymore ridiculous than the current system?

I'm late to this discussion but ultimately to me, this is just forced promotion/Relegation.

We used to have the bottom of league and top of lower league swapping places, based purely on results.

No we have a criteria to get into a league which implies that results alone will not relegate you and that the league will have stability
yet now they are saying no matter what you do, if the lower team meets the minimum, someone will have to make way....no matter how good they are.
That's just promotion and relegation on different criteria. If you are bottom of the franchise league you will be relegated, even if you are still better than the team coming up and tick all the boxes.

Innane

Its clear from your bitterness that the RFL have already told you that you wont be invited to the party

Rubbish, they wait while the day before and toss a coin, they are not clear about anything.

Some very good points there especially the bit about Wakey not having an appetite for RL. We have had a few relatively successful seasons in SL but have never built on it. The people of Wakefield are in general apathetic towards Trinity. Hopefully a new stadium will entice them out of their armchairs/out of the pub though I have my doubts I think it will probably just encourage more away fans to come.

I can't be d reading thru all the pages on this topic, sorry if this has already been posted.

How can the RFL league come out and say a team will drop down a league, we have nine months before the april 2011 application deadline!

Whats to say by next april you and cas will be meid way thru your stadium build?

IMO it's shocking, it's pretty obvious the RFL have made there minds up to who will be 14 teams in 2012. so whats the point in the application system.

I hope both you and cas are still playing in super league in 2012, good rugby league towns like cas and wildcats should be in super league.

Maybe the RFL should look at the last time to be granted super league license, in two years they have played at two stadiums, had two names, terrible crowds and full of imports with no youth system.

I know a fair amount of people around Wakefield,who used to go every week to watch Trinity,up until the late 90's and stopped due to the stadium and facilities.When I've spoken to them over the years,they've said they would be straight back to watch Trinity if the had a new stadium etc.If there's a few that I personally know of,there must be a fair number of them around Wakefield.Added to that the people that would come to watch simply because it is a new stadium,then the thing would be keeping the people interested in coming back .A new stadium would mean buying better quality players and playing better RL and more exciting games,all of this would increase the fans no end.

Be very carefull calling Wakey a town pal...a few on this board seem to think Wakey as a city gives them divine rights over their small time underachieving town nieghbours entry into the next franchises

Fook this, im not getting caught up in a local war.

Im off