And it's a probability the people passing the secondary application will be the people who unanimously passed the first one.

hey last post promise look at it like this maybe widnes get screwed over yet again and you drop down.How ironic would all this banter be then lol.Lets hope we meet in super league not championship bye

Yes i hope we both meet in SL in the future, now how many last posts do we need.

Cue the Bugle Major!

Just nicked this off widnes site, news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 679548.stm they seem confident that we are no threat to them but we may be you our nearest and dearest neighbours. Look at the date, I don't even think I was born then!!

Just nicked this off widnes site, news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 679548.stm they seem confident that we are no threat to them but we may be you our nearest and dearest neighbours. Look at the date, I don't even think I was born then!!

Squeaky bum time? haha


One team is certain to come up and Widnes are overwhelming favourites to come up. We find out in March if we are in and by that time you may only have a couple of bricks in the ground.

That aside, whether we replace Wakefield or not, i think its great it has been approved for you guys. Another modern state of the art stadium can only be good for British rugby league.

I don't think it's squeaky bum time in Widnes as I believe their super league status is unofficially confirmed already.

Regarding the rumour that Big Al refers to, I have heard very much the same, a certain benefactor, who saved a championship club and has worked wonders in rescuing them from debt while restructuring their business model, has now withdrawn his own personal financial backing. Whilst he will remain with the club and act as a safety net he will no longer actively fund their activities and they must now stand on their own 2 feet.

Well done Wakey!

You can’t help but admire the amount of work some people must have put in to achieve this. It was clearly done with a lot of passion too.

I think this may have the RFL cringing. If Wakey were to be kicked out before a certain 2 or 3 other clubs, it would be disgraceful anyway imo.

The decision, for us, is made in March. That makes things difficult for all those clubs struggling to get stadiums built in time. One SL is definitely going down.



This is nonsense.

Steve O’Connor doesn’t actually need to put that much money into the club anyway, as we have a good support base for the Championship and the club is now run so well. The main area, where he does still need to fund the club, is the academy set up. Even Widnes cannot support such a system on the money they can generate. So he is still funding the club.

He has also promised that Widnes will be playing up to the full cap (as confirmed by Terry O’Connor in last weeks RL press), should they get a SL licence. There can be only one source of financial imput here, in order to achieve this - That is Steve O’Connor.

I think some people, in their desperation, have been clutching at straws and have taken SOC’s statement of trying to make Widnes a well run club capable of standing on its own two feet, as an indication that he has withdrawn funding. This is clearly not true. His statement was a long-term aim and nothing more.

He was a crook alright. I’m not sure what you mean by funded though. He ruined our club and sent it into administration by building a squad and then walking out without actually funding it.

We have more than paid the price for his pernicious, brief sojourn at the Widnes Vikings.

Oh, and by the way, completely ignore viking.gb, as he is an idiot. He is just a troll who posts on other clubs' boards talking utter , and we never even see him on our own board.

I’m not sure if he’s actually even a Widnes fan.

Sounds like Simac.

You're kidding right? How about in 2012? Do you reckon he'll have to put money in? You betchya! If he doesn't it'll be a short stay in SL for Widnes.

For supposedly well run clubs who don't need sugar daddy's read Hull KR. They were a model NL1 club and got promoted with a team of dedicated backers and hard workers. Still, have a look at their debts and come back and tell me that Widnes don't need O'Connor chucking money at them.

Dont be silly , he can turn round a million loss to a million profit in one year without increasing attendances , he'll bog SL , they'll make millions in there