Moscow01

Here goes: Super League: 1) Warrington 2) St Helens 3) Leeds 4) Castleford 5) Wigan 6) Catalans 7) Huddersfield 8) Hull FC 9) Wakefield 10) Salford 11) Hull KR 12) London Championship: 1) Toronto 2) Toulouse 3) Widnes 4) Halifax 5) Bradford 6) Featherstone 7) Barrow 8) Batley 9) Sheffield 10) York 11) Leigh 12) Dewsbury 13) Rochdale 14) Swinton League 1: 1) Newcastle 2) Oldham 3) Workington 4) Hunslet 5) Doncaster 6) North Wales 7) Whitehaven 8) London 9) Keighley 10) Coventry 11) West Wales

Keighley coach Craig Lingard has revealed that he will not continue in his role until the players have been paid. Steve Gill is also set to step down from his general manager role at the club. Simon Harrison and Neil Cullen resigned as directors last month, while Garry Schofield also left his position as club ambassador. “Players and staff have not been paid for nearly three months now,” Hawkyard, who has now moved to Oldham, told loverugbyleague.com. “They keep on lying to us and giving us false promises. Two weeks ago, they sent us all cheques but they all bounced. They banging our heads against the wall now and we don’t know who to go to because we’ve tried places already. They’ve also not paid anyone’s taxes all year but have been taking it off us.”

That’s peculiar, they had over 10,000 Facebook followers... Really sorry to hear this BD20Cougar. 😞

Christ, it’s not looking good at all. I tried visiting their Facebook page but for some reason I couldn’t access it. Could we be about to lose another League 1 club?

In recent weeks they’ve lost most of their best players, and I’ve just heard from a very reliable source that the financial situation at present is ‘desperate’. What’s going on there and what’s the story on this ‘Austria Holdings’ that took them over in the summer?

At this stage I’d say it’s a toss up between Newcastle, Hunslet, Oldham, Workington with Doncaster not too far behind. I can’t wait to see how the bookies price it up. Very worrying news coming out of Keighley of late. A reliable source told me things are looking ‘desperate’ for them and they might not be able to take part in League 1 next season.

If that’s the case then shouldn’t they be able to extricate themselves out of League 1?

I find it quite staggering that a team based in one of the great cities of the world can’t at least be competitive at the top end of League 1. It’s not as if they’ve only been going a few years either. They had a few good wins in 2016 that looked to be the start of something but since then they’ve been a real disappointment. The annoying thing is they’ve got some very good players, it’s not as if they’re devoid of talent. They should get a proper coach in who knows what he’s doing.

He’s a realist. His squad is made up of some handy Championship players and some very ordinary League 1 players who were going up against proven Super League players.

I was right! You've got a belting player in Billy. He’s so tough and has the right attitude to succeed.

Could be Billy Brickhill... a hooker/loose forward from Rochdale. In 2016 he was North Wales’ young player of the year, in 2017 he was All Golds’ supporters player of the year and this year he was Rochdale’s young player of the year. He’s not the biggest but he’s probably one of the fittest players outside of Super League. Never takes a backward step. He’s good friends with Chris Worrall as well - they were both in the All Golds side in 2017.

Rimmer: “We’d like to see a really considerable boost off the back of Saturday’s game as it’s a big stadium and a fantastic venue,” Rimmer said. “I would hope we would be over 25,000 for it, something like that.” The sooner this idiot steps aside for a competent administrator the better. He’s an embarrassment to everyone associated with the sport.

A penny for James Roby’s thoughts having watched Hodgson today....

15 minutes to kick-off and the stadium is 1/4 full 😳

I’d be astonished if there’s a League 1 in five years’ time.