don't need to justify ourselves really ! you are becoming tiresome to say the least.

No need to justify anything. Our bid was deemed stronger than both yours and Crusaders. Feel for you guys for getting your hopes up, its the fault of the rfl for keeping you hanging on, they should have said better luck next time when Widnes were awarded a place. I agree our promises must be kept, so must Quins, Cas and Salford. Should they not then you and possibly Leigh and Fev will be banging on the door demanding entry, and rightly so. Its not the fault of Wakey or our chairman, we've done what we needed to do to get our license renewed. People believed the hype created by the media that we were gonners but in true wakey style we bounced back and proved the doubters wrong. You as a club need to carry on building and work on the areas where you failed in your application, remember a license can be revoked at any time and should a club fail to deliver you must be ready to take over their place at the top table. For me you should have come up anyway and the league should have expanded but thats one for another day.

The whole system needs a total overhaul though.
No club should have to put up with being virtually disabled from operating on a level playing field 2 out of the 3 year license period because of the favourite for losing a license tag that was put on them.
Also no club should have all it's members of staff living in fear of their livelihoods because of the process.Especially when the clubs (Cas incl) are seen to be working well within their community's.
No club should also have it's hopes raised (Halifax) because of the process. A quick point on Halifax they submitted their application and told it ticked the boxes before they were able to compare it against any SL's applications, because they had not been submitted at that time. Back to front or what.
It has got to count on the field as well.
Somehow the funding gap between Champ 1 and SL has to be closer than at present to make sustained growth possible.

I do not think Fax will ever comprehend that in the eyes of the RFL our application was better. This is just a bitter outburst, like a child not getting his own way.

I mentioned this before the license decision. The RFL should withhold £300K from the SL hand out to each SL club and give that to the Championship clubs to develop the club. That means the existing SL clubs would receive £900K which is still a decent amount. This leaves the SL clubs having to find approx. £700K to spend up to the full cap. This will be a struggle for the smaller clubs such as Trinity, but shouldn’t be an issue to the likes of Wigan, Leeds and the clubs with wealthy benefactors. A strong second tier is vital to the continued growth of RL as much as expansion.

I agree totally at present it's too great a drop.

I might add,

If Wakefield Trinity hadn't been denied Super League money in their first two seasons then Ted Richardson wouldn't have been forced to use his own money, raised against the Sainsburys deal.

The same £1M Sainsburys deal which ten years later went sour thus forcing Ted into an IVA and removing any room for movement In our business plan.

The same inflexibility which then forced the club into a series of bad financial decisions which were exposed by HMRCs decision to pull our tax repayment plan.

The rest is history.

Being a Bradford fan i enjoy going to Wakey, not as much as i enjoy going to Halifax but still enjoy it lol

Personally i think regardless of their withdrawl Crusaders should have gone followed closely by Harlequins who should then of been replaced by Halifax,

Quins have done nothing for the sport since the start of superleague really, and there attendances are one of the poorest if not the worst,

Although people are arguing that wakey should of gone down, the only reason being the administration other than that there is plenty of clubs that have done bugger all in recent years to warrant super league status, Bradford being one of them - it only their super league history that has possibly kept us a license !!