I thought they were revamping the whole championship set up.

You're right starbug, championship could do with a major rebranding and new tv deal. Rfl should be looking hard to find new sponsors and trying to sell tv rights that get closer to super league, that way it's not such a bigger gulf to go from champ to sl. In reality we need 2 full time leagues but is this sustainable in our game?

Toulouse are no loss , their matches tended to be the lowest attendances anyway , and it isn't just Widnes's away support , just that they attracted your ' occasional big match ' supporter , our ' derby ' match next year will probably be Swinton , with Halifax after that

The TV deal won't happen and has never been paid for anyway , so again no great loss as it cost us money when we were on , in fact the Co oP sponsorship only happened because of the TV deal , so that might go as well

Yes they were thinking about it , but with 5/6 games left clubs in the Championship still don't know if anybody will be relegated , and those in Championship 1 don't know if there will be any promotion , or which positions will win promotion

Bloody marvellous

You are being serious here ?

Trust me if you were in the championship you would have exactly the same problem with the attendances. we have been successful over the last 3 years too, and we still havent managed to increase the gates.

the games are meaningless ysure you play for 3 points and to get to the grand final, but we have just been to 2 successive grand finals, hasnt increased gates though because there is no promotion at the end of the season,

where is the selling point to come and watch a championship game these days??

you do have a youth set up but the sky money helps doesnt it? we dont have as much so therefore can't afford as much.

the only difference between the 2 clubs is the league they are playing in and the extra sky money super league teams get.

its the system though not you, i feel like we have been shafted by the RFL

there's the reasons why and you chairman can't see it

not a pop at you because I to hate the franchise system

hang in there bud

You can't though because everyone knows if Crusaders sort themselves out thats the next franchise sorted.

Highly unlikely I'd say , but then again who knows what ' master plan ' they will come up with

if they can't do SL what makes you think they could do championship any better

you can then base your bid on a far stable history

by the way your pitch ain't long enough

My wife thinks Halifax have been sold down the river.
Mind you, she actually likes the game, maybe that's it.


How is he an idiot?
Halifax's results ARE better, even when you take into account the league they play in.
They have made far better use of the meagre funds available to them than Wakefield have with their share of Sky income.


The Shay's development actually exists, right now, you can see it and touch it.
Belle Vue's redevelopment is an idea, a dream, a promise (and we've seen promise after promise from Wakefield evaporate so many times).
Who on earth is going to spend serious money (and it would take really serious money, given the state of it) to redevelop a ground that doesn't even belong to them, when they are going to build a new stadium almost immediately?
Maybe Richard Lewis fell for that but it doesn't ring true to me.

12,000 capacity you say ... and how full? ... or are you going to continue to depend on away fans bringing the money in?

Going to cost £500,000 the money has been earmarked and the contractors were at the ground yesterday looking at what needs doing