The point is what if Quins do a Crusaders? Someone will need to take their place. Nigel whathisface was making the point that clubs have given undertakings, and they have to fulfil them. That's the point I was making. He's let your club down by his outburst today, because it might help to nudge clubs like Featherstone or Leigh above you if someone does have to step into the breach.

as im in dream mode, please make it fev!

You may have missed it been from the other side of the hill, but Gration was supposed to interview Wood but he pulled out right at the last minute leaving Rimmer to face the music.

The question has been asked by several Trinity supporters, but there is no reason why Trinity would be included at the expense of Halifax had their application been inferior. Its not like the club were on the protected list. Their bid must have been better, despite how incredulous the Halifax chairman may find it.

That's a good way of putting it. They still had a golden opportunity to get shut, and so they must have been impressed with what they saw.

This whole sorry debacle just shows that franchises don't work; they don't prevent or avoid the problems they were introduced to combat and nobody likes the system.
P & R is the only fair way.

Congratulations Trinity, commiserations Fax.

My dad is bigger than you're dad!

That's very well put - we're not exactly an expansion side or an RFL favourite, so they would have no reason to keep us in over Fax other than our application being better.

The Fax Chairman needs to wind his neck in and learn to do a Widnes; take your medicine and keep your fingers crossed that ourselves, Cas or Quins fail to deliver.

Story goes our application was the strongest of the five C's.

If this does actually turn out to be correct, and is published as such, then I hope the Halifax Chairman has the good grace to retract his comments.

halifax's bid was doomed as soon as they started cutting corners .

getting shut of Howard was a massive mistake , we all loved Howard

I just cant see it to be honest. They wont let London fail, i suspect its far too important to the Sky deal to let that happen. Im not sure our club is really going to buy in to the idea that clubs have been given areas to work on and if they dont then they could get kicked out, afterall that was the story last time as well.

Im actually glad our Chairman grew a pair today, i honestly believe this was our best chance to get in as i doubt anyone in our league apart from Crusaders will be said to meet the criteria in 3 years time and even if they do theres no chance of their application been better than a SL teams.

I didnt think Wakey deserved to be kicked out as im still a big believer that sport is about what happens on the field and i also think of Wakey as a traditional club like Fax. I think a lot of people just accepted Wakey would make the drop but when Crusaders dropped out and that didnt happen people have aimed their anger at the easiest target when it could and possibly should have been aimed elsewhere.

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