When they pick the best Champ club to get the guaranteed place it will!

i don't think Fax expect anything from the Franchise bid. But as part of the big RFL charade of licensing at least the RFL will now get 2 eligible (english) applicants to [ichoose[/i from!!

It will count when they are compared to each other. We are competing against each other for that licence, don’t forget. In order to separate clubs who make the cut on the same issue, the quality of each area of the bid is important. It’s not just about ticking boxes but also the quality of those ticks.

Ticking the boxes just gives you a chance place the bid, the standard of each box ticked is what really counts.

Fax may well have a better quality ‘player strength’ tick, for instance.

with all due respect, thats such a mind blowing surge of misinformed gravey it almost does not deserve a direct response.
We didnt do anything, our previous chairman who is a crook and has since been convicted of seriously dodgy financial dealings was the one who almost went bust. and also took Chester city FC to the grave i might add. we had TWO loan players in the NRC final last season. And we DO NOT rely on a wealthy backer. i can say with certainty that SoC (having seen a summary of last years accounts) has not put any money in purely to keep the club ticking over on a day to day basis. he paid the agreed sum for the club and the agreed sum to wipe out the old regimes debts, and invested in youth development. widnes have worked purely within predetermined budgets, using REAL revenue to cover these budgets. im sick to death of people making out like widnes would go bust in a flash if our wealthy backer went elsewhere. its just not true. we made a small loss last year, and that was after paying of the old regimes debts and investing heavily in the youth system. nobody else in this league has books half as good as ours, and thats without being 'Propped up' by our chairman. as many of our rivals seem to think.

Does that mean you might not achieve the £1m turnover figure then?

Who's more likely to, Widnes or Halifax?

Here's me thinking few weeks back Fax fans saying struggling to keep going and loss of cup revenue a massive blow, yet now there better placed for SL? Hmmm.

we already have met it, its been confirmed by both SOC and the ex ceo in interviews (although i've not heard the interviews first hand)

Perhaps we borrowed their chairman’s dodgy calculator?

I would love to see the figures to back that up. I would be very surprised if any Championship team is any where near 1M turnover.

actually we fell just short last year, and have many new sponsioship deals this year. so im sure you will see figures soon.

And you can include money for charitable trusts to it for franchise purposes, which would prob have put last years figure over 1 mill!

We were only £30,000k short last time and we've had no freebies. Plus the charity funds have gone up and the shop is booming and selling all kinds of merchandise. Everywhere you go in Widnes these days you see branded Vikings merchandise. I think my contribution alone has gone some way to making up the extra £30,000k.

btw pepe is that dave grohl wearing a widnes jersey?