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| Its a difficult one, i agree in principle that Barrow and Fev/Fax should have a go but it could cripple your club in the process. Take Fev for example, they would have to bring in around 15-18 players for a start to even compete. A year getting smashed left right and centre and then your back down with a headache and have to build another championship team again. Meanwhile the coach may have gone and the club are in money troubles.
That sounds a little extreme but it would more than likely happen.
I would just like the RFL to stick to the rules and be honest, we all know clubs like Quins and Wakey are struggling so instead of threatening to drop just the one drop a couple of clubs and give the 2 best championship clubs a go with the best overall infrastructures. They also need to invest more into the Championship divisions, prize money for the final should be say 400,000 for the winners and 100,000 for the losers. As touched on previously they make enough profit so they should invest into where it's most needed.
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| Utterly agree 100% with that Vikingman me old chum.
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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
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| I completely disagree , you go up , if you're not good enough , you come down , which clubs have got in money trouble through going up to SL ?
However being stuck there for 3 seasons paying out contracts you cannot afford on the gates you are getting because you are getting tonked every week , not good
And if you ask for an example of this ?
Huddersfield , it has taken them 8 seasons to finally become a viable SL club ( of sorts )
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| Quote: Starbug "I completely disagree , you go up , if you're not good enough , you come down , which clubs have got in money trouble through going up to SL ?
However being stuck there for 3 seasons paying out contracts you cannot afford on the gates you are getting because you are getting tonked every week , not good
And if you ask for an example of this ?
Huddersfield , it has taken them 8 seasons to finally become a viable SL club ( of sorts )'"
Hull KR?
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| The gap is bigger than ever now between SL and Championship.
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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: -VIKINGMAN- "Hull KR?'"
Go on , explain
I have to go to Nottingham now , so you've a few hours to think how
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| If Halifax got "promoted" this season we'd get mullered. It would kill us off. We're not ready for SL.
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| Quote: Starbug "Go on , explain
I have to go to Nottingham now , so you've a few hours to think how
I dont have to get into one of your debates starbug, i have explained above what i think would heppen in the scenario that Fev went up.
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| If you announce that you`ve signed Ropati........ you have signed a excellent player IMO.
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| Quote: leytherjay "If you announce that you`ve signed Ropati........ you have signed a excellent player IMO.'"
back on topic, you are a credit to your club
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[quote="tb":24qn1m99]Tough. Conversations develop. It's their nature.[/quote:24qn1m99]
Little Pepe went to nursery school one day wearing his Widnes hat. His teacher asked him why he was a Widnes fan. He said, “Because my parents are.” His teacher said, “That’s not good. What would you do if your parents were drug dealers and hookers?” He replied, “Well then I would be a Warrington fan.”
[i:24qn1m99]There's a Wooly over there, baggy kecks and feathered hair
with a 3 star jumper half way up his back, that’s a fecking Wooly back![/i:24qn1m99]
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| Quote: Starbug "I completely disagree , you go up , if you're not good enough , you come down , which clubs have got in money trouble through going up to SL ?
However being stuck there for 3 seasons paying out contracts you cannot afford on the gates you are getting because you are getting tonked every week , not good
And if you ask for an example of this ?
Huddersfield , it has taken them 8 seasons to finally become a viable SL club ( of sorts )'"
You seem to be contradicting yourself here and it actually backs up what VM has written
I think your principle works fine with a P&R system, but the 3-year licence system requires that the club promoted already needs to have everything in place and be financially viable for the full 3 years.
There’s only one club in the Championship who meets that at the moment imo.
I’m not, in any way, sticking up for the licence system - in fact I hate it – but there’s no sense in bitching about it on the Widnes board. I really wish some fans would realize this, but I guess some people are just too stupid and bitter to understand the circumstances in which we all find ourselves at this moment.
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[quote="tb":24qn1m99]Tough. Conversations develop. It's their nature.[/quote:24qn1m99]
Little Pepe went to nursery school one day wearing his Widnes hat. His teacher asked him why he was a Widnes fan. He said, “Because my parents are.” His teacher said, “That’s not good. What would you do if your parents were drug dealers and hookers?” He replied, “Well then I would be a Warrington fan.”
[i:24qn1m99]There's a Wooly over there, baggy kecks and feathered hair
with a 3 star jumper half way up his back, that’s a fecking Wooly back![/i:24qn1m99]
[b:24qn1m99]Oooh-to… Oooh-to-be… Oooh-to-be-a… WOOLY![/b:24qn1m99]:24307.jpg |
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| Quote: littlerich "So, Widnes getting it together on the pitch at last. (Or at least making more than a half assed attempt) About bloody time. There will be nothing but applause from me if you go up to SL as champions. That's how it should be. Some people (the RFL) have forgotten that.'"
OK , I’ll bite.
This is total bullsh\t. Just in case it may have escaped your notice, the club has appeared in two cup finals in two years, winning one of them and narrowly losing the last one. This season we have used 41 players due to the worst injury crisis I have ever seen, and our coach has spent most of the season dealing with personal tragedy. It’s hardly suprising we struggled. We did put a little too much emphasis on bringing youth through, but is that such a bad thing?
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| Quote: Pepe "OK , I’ll bite.
This is total bullsh\t. '"
Total?
The league tables say not. But like the RFL have pointed out - performances on the pitch are only a small part of the criteria. You will be going up to SL. You haven't been the best side.
It's simple.
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On thread drift:
[quote="tb":24qn1m99]Tough. Conversations develop. It's their nature.[/quote:24qn1m99]
Little Pepe went to nursery school one day wearing his Widnes hat. His teacher asked him why he was a Widnes fan. He said, “Because my parents are.” His teacher said, “That’s not good. What would you do if your parents were drug dealers and hookers?” He replied, “Well then I would be a Warrington fan.”
[i:24qn1m99]There's a Wooly over there, baggy kecks and feathered hair
with a 3 star jumper half way up his back, that’s a fecking Wooly back![/i:24qn1m99]
[b:24qn1m99]Oooh-to… Oooh-to-be… Oooh-to-be-a… WOOLY![/b:24qn1m99]:24307.jpg |
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| Quote: littlerich "Total?.'"
Yes, because you are implying that the club couldn’t be bothered where they finished in the league, and that is just not true.
Quote: littlerich "Total?
The league tables say not. But like the RFL have pointed out - performances on the pitch are only a small part of the criteria. You will be going up to SL. You haven't been the best side.
It's simple.'"
Only if you ignore the fact that many of our best players were out for most of the season. Having to use 41 players means game plans and constancy go out of the window. We had some very good players last season, more than good enough to win the league. Circumstances prevented this.
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| "I'm coming up so you better get Roparti started".
Chants make themselves sometimes.
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