And you would be happy to see them forgo their TV money, Sport England money, Grant money, Challenge Cup money, insurance, loan players, affiliations with amateur clubs, SL clubs, etc?

... this is just the Rovers forum from 2007/2008, we were saying all this back then and got called 'dinosaurs'...

Yep. They aren't doing us any good at the moment are they!?!?
I'd rather watch a game where it comes down to the results, not the location of the club or the colour of the tiles in the toilets.

Welcome to the forum mr Lewis

They are doing plenty of good. In fact a huge amount. Where do you think all your players come from? the amateur leagues, how happy are they going to be when you look to take their players and directly compete against the very people who give them pretty much all of their money?

You think things are bad now, take away the hundreds of thousands given the championships and the TV exposure, and the insurance, and the million and one unnoticed things the RFL do and being members of the RFL entitles you and think how much worse that would be.

I'm not sure you are really getting my point. The whole franchise issue is a total farce. How can you say that the RFL value the Championship clubs when they are forcing them to play year in year out for nothing?
I would rather watch a game where the results matter at the end of the season and the teams fight it our right up to the last whistle. Promotion/relegation is a necessary feature for me every year and this should be done on results, not based on a PowerPoint presentation showing what the club has to offer.

The way it's looking I wouldn't bother with your PNG in the NRL link at the bottom of your signature, sod it, if they've got a nice stadium kick another established English team out and let them into the Super League!

They dont play for nothing, they play for the same reason as the SL clubs play. To Win
Why? i have no interest in watching a game to see who is the worst team in the league. I want to watch games deciding who are the best. P+R is unstable and damaging.

I agree that with P+R we would still be in a financial mess. However, i feel that with P+R we would be able to focus our efforts on to the field and stay in SL by playing better rugby and winning more games than other teams., rather than having to focus on a stadium, yes we all know Belle Vue isn't up to scratch but we would still be able to get Newmarket without the pressure of having to rush it through.

Haven't we known Belle Vue hasn't been fit for the job for years? It's 'our' fault we're rushing things because 'we' left it to the last minute.

But that being the case, you would have never addressed the real structural problems that are stopping Wakefield not just surviving in SL but excelling.

As for the Newmarket proposal, i hope it comes up for you, but its wrong to say franchising is causing you to rush it, you have been in SL for 12 years now, ample time. Maybe franchising has focussed Wakefield a little more, but this is a good thing. As this off-season is showing, Wakefield at Belle Vue simply isnt sustainable. It is Belle Vue (in the main) which is responsible for the financial problems, pushing you to replace it can only be a good thing long term for the game, but also for Wakefield.

Your friends at the RFL did give the people of Bridgend a right to the game - but then they took it away to a non-league soccer club with a half-decent stadium.The efforts of your friends at the RFL to expand the game have been spectacular failures.
Giving a leg-up to a club where former employees were guilty of a charity scam,where the former CEO is on bail for theft anf fraud charges and where the soccer supporters have a deep mistrust for the 2 owners of Crusaders.
Taking the current CEO from another club in an expansion area hardly benefits the other club and the finacial undertaking with Crusaders is anything but a level playing field.
Higher attendances are usually found in local derby games but with the country in economical decline supporters have to find money to go to France to follow their side.
Unfortunately,with Wrexham being so accessible for supporters living in 'the heartlands' the Crusaders attendances may be reasonable but the off-field situation at Wrexham is simmering.
It is hardly a level playing field for a club to lose its Super League Licence because the council won't construct a stadium.It is nothing to do with rugby league.

They didnt give anybody the right to the game, They already have it. The game doesnt belong to you, me, Leeds Rhinos, Crusaders or Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. It belongs to all of us.
the operative word there being former. However ill you wish to speak of Crusaders it doesnt alter the fact that after 137 years, 12 years in SL, and years of SL money, Wakefield still havent addressed their structural problems. Wakefield are failling because of faillings at Wakefield. Not because of Crusaders or the Expansion bogeyman. Wakefield would be where they are regardless of Crusaders admission to the League.
I think you will find Rod Findlay makes his own decisions.
Thats not Crusaders fault. Les Catalans fault, or anyone else in RL's fault. If you want to watch a West Yorkshire league, go start one, see how many people and clubs want to follow you. See how many television companies want to screen it and see how long it survives.
errm, yes, its definitly unfortunate that a Rugby League clubs attendance is reasonable. Gosh darn them, why cant they just be crap and support your argument, Why do they have to be better and make you look silly
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And at the end of the season even if they have won all their games people with the same opinion as you decide they don't deserve a chance at top flight rugby. How can that be fair? I ask again, where's the motivation to win the Championship?

the same motivation there is to win SL. To win.