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[DiddyDave]

Just what are the main criteria for getting a Super League licence? Maybe it only has to pass Stevo`s omnipotence and include as many use by date Aussies and Kiwis as possible?

[SPOTLANDHORNET]

Well there we go, those poor players have been locked out of the gym, why don't they do their own training at home and for that matter couldn't they promise to perform this week regadless of payment as they have been doing pretty well out of it this season if £200,000 covers the coacjhing staff for a month!!!!!

It'd bl**dy kill 'em if they came down here on what our clubs pay, Stanky would love £200,000 to spend on wages for the season!?!?!?!?

Pugwash.

Would'nt Mayfield or Leigh Miners love the money that Hornets get from the RFL?

[Keith T]

It is funny how different standards apply for different clubs. In 1996 Workington were relegated from Super League 1 and at the end of 1997 they went in to administration. They were one of four clubs that year to enter administration - HKR, Keighley and Prescott being the others. A proposal was put forward from SL Europe to the RFL that Keighley, Workington and Prescott be thrown out of the RFL. A meeting was held at Salford to discuss this proposal and both Keighley and Workington had a coach load of supporters outside the Willows protesting.

At the end of the day the clubs decided to give both Keighley and Workington another chance but Prescott voluntarily dropped out of the RFL. Since that time Workington had 7 years in a Creditors Voluntary Arrangement paying back their debts coming out of administration in 2005. The club has been in the lowest league since that time and is only now showing signs of improvement on and off the field. We have served our punishment and come through it and I'm sure Bradford are big enough to come through it as well, by starting again in Championship 1. Forget this talk about them being a big miss to SL if they are demoted, etc.

Incidentally, just who was it that made the proposal to throw out those clubs at Salford in 1997 - BRADFORD BULLS under the leadership of one Chris Caisley, seconded by Wigan. Now we don't want double standards do we?

[PLD]

Now we don't want double standards do we?

That's how the RFL have conducted themselves since the Super Duper League came into existance.

[off the wall]

barrow got all points deducted last season for our chairmans discreditable dealings, got relegaited and all the fans had to take it on the chin.let bradford start a fresh like we had to.90% of our squad are local lads now.all our gate money is going back into the club and you can see were its going. allowing super league clubs to ###### their tv money and sponsership against the wall is not on in this economic climate.also all that 500k raised and pleged was not exactly very transparent by the management of the club as it was only the tip of the iceberg.

[Pugwash]

I'm afraid where the RFL are concerned it's a matter of do as we say,not as we do.

There's already news leaking out of another SL club ready to hit the buffers, no names, no pack drill but the brown and sticky is about to hit the fan!!!

It will be very interesting to see how the RFL get round this one. The make up of the Championship has already been set and it will not accomodate another club without a bye every week. They can't reduce the promoted clubs to three as that would have writs galore hitting the Red Hall doormat. Promoting a Championship club to SL wouldn't be easy as there would be numerous contenders and the vetting process, for what it's worth, would take ages.

It looks like there will be some late night meetings at Red Hall in the future.

Pugwash.

[Pugwash]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...league/18781736

Eventh hour reprieve on the cards with the businessmen wanting to know how they will stay in SL.

Pugwash.

[Anita Bath]

And their pals the other super league clubs will decide whether they remain in Super League - since at least half of them may be on the brink themselves couldn't this simply be a conspiracy to keep others out?

What a disgrace.

[Pugwash]

Despite the positive news about a potential buyer for the four-time Super League winners, Guilfoyle warned that the deal would be dependent on the RFL and the 13 other Super League clubs consenting to allow the club to remain in the top division and permitting the new owners to buy back their ground.

"For the deal to go through we need the RFL to agree to us remaining in the top division and buying the ground back from them.

"We need the other clubs to agree that Super League is a poorer place without us."


That part of the piece is the important bit! It just leaves the RFL with the problem of how to break it to the game in general that they will not punish the Bulls for this financial abberation and let them start up again as if nothing has happened. Ahh,Twas ever thus!

The next time a club outside SL gets into the mire we should all write to the Leaguer to ask why they are getting no help!!

I did forecast all this!

Pugwash.

[Anita Bath]

Two separate issues here - help and sanctions. I believe the RFL have helped many clubs when in financial difficulty (dont they own part of Spotland as a result of helping out Hornets?). Of course we can always debate over the relative levels and forms of help provided to different clubs.

Sanctions are a different matter and it seems in this case sanction are to be determined by the other SL clubs, not the RFL. I suppose that arises from SL being a separate entity from the RFL and hence able to set its own rules. Lets face it, if Crusaders hadnt withdrawn from the SL licence application they would still be in there and facing a similar financial pickle to Bradford. Interesting to compare this situation with the Rangers situation in Scotland. The SPL is also a separate entity but with automatic promotion-relegation to the SFL. Hance fellow SPL clubs were not prepared to protect Rangers from demotion because that would be at the expense of increasing their own risk of relegation. Of course in SL there is no risk so lets protect our buddies - there is no cost for doing that and then we can expect them to protect us in the same way should the matter arise in the future. Rugby League's House of Lords.

Surely its time for the Championship to form their own RL organisation and make a clean break from the RFL.

[Mad Mal the Mauler]

Turkeys & Christmas eh?

[PooingDog]

Looks like there's a consortium of business men willing to take them on providing the RFL sell back Odsall. Wonder what the chances are of the Bulls moving to Cities ground and Odsall being redeveloped within two years.

Edited by PooingDog, 15 July 2012 - 05:11 PM.