i dont get what they expected the outcome to be really. With Widnes already been given the nod from the chamionship, and crusaders favourites to get a license over us for expansion.....why so much uproar? Alot of us had little hope of staying up, so I dont know what halifax were hoping for. If crusaders had stayed in then would they have been having a paddy about them aswell?

No, because as Slugger has ably proved on the VT, some parts of the RL community seem to want it both ways; they're in favour of franchising in all circumstances [iexcept[/i the circumstance where WTW turn out to be better than someone else, in which case they're against it.

Don't tell the cas fans!!!

Probably not , as they have the x factor , of location , something neither you or Fax possess , and the one thing you cannot challenge

ha ha i hate the rfl too. I dont hate wakefield its just annoying. when the you think you have a chance of super league not doing anything wrong , doing everything the rfl ask of us and still no super league when clearly they are teams in a far worse position than fax. not just wakefield. I think the rfl is going to ruin the game bring back relegation and promotion i say

The Pompous Bull Shater is back again

Evidently you didn't, or you would be in Superleague !!!!!!!!!

With the obvious exception of submitting a franchise application that was better than ours?

This can be settled once and for all. If the Fax chairman is so confident that their's was a better application, let him publish the RFL's opinion of it. We'll listen, and if he's right, we'll raise our eyebrows and share in his disgust.

So go on, Mr Chairman, publish and let us hear the praise from the independent consultants.

I suspect I'll have a long wait. Maybe even as long as three years.

If the RFL had the bottle to be open and honest they could make the applications public and put an end to all this.

But they won't cos the cupboards full of skelebobs.

He may well think that way and if it comes off good luck to him, you play whatever game gets the results.

It's not rocket surgery!