Those clowns at the RFL actually believe the tripe they spout.
How can anything that deems to be professional be validated by having someone with deep pockets to paper over the cracks.
Watch this space, the economy well dictate how much cash these developers have at their disposal.

They will now carefully draft a document that screws us over and makes us look crap, they disgust me. Spineless cretins.

Wood dodged the question again about 'Were Wakefield getting relegated before Crusaders withdrew' This is the most telling info, his silence and dodging speaks volumes.

I hope Fax do publish their "BSC" details. Lets see what comments the RFL have made and what objectives/targets the RFL set for a club to meet.

BSC - I go to watch rugby to get away from work, now it's flaming well following me in its worst guise.

More confused than i was before the program. All the things that Nigel Wood mentioned Wakey didnt fair too well in them so we must have been pretty bad. Notice they didnt ask my question about why the admin rules were changed mid way through the season.

I would have liked to have had the questions asked.

How did Halifax tick all the boxes and meet the criteria a couple of monthe back along with Widnes and yet now they have not even been allocated a grade C license.

What criteria did they tick then that they do not tick now?

How can we have gone backwords sufficiently in such a short peroid, it's just ludicrous.

Halifax were manipulated out of meeting any license criteria to avoid the RFL being in a totally undefenable position.

We have just been to the NRC final and played great rugby and took defeat graciously.

Our league posistion has improved and we have a real chance of making the play offs.

Our ground has been used to play Super league games with 2 of them screened live on Sky Sports with nothing but praise from the clubs and their supporters involved in those games.

Second question what real prospects and guarantees do any Championship clubs have of ticking all the boxes, meeting every criteria set and yet may still not be allowed into Super league because of the 14 club restriction.

If that is the case how long will it be before these clubs inevitably fade and die.

The man clearly gets paid in burgers to lie. The interview was a disgrace and you have been cheated out of a super league place.

In tough economic times, i would expect to see one if not two SL clubs hitting the financial skids 18 months from now - there is no way that 14 business plans will deliver the results they all hope for.

The balanced scorecard was described as a holisitic (subjective) method of analysing clubs - time will tell. It's not as if the RFl ever get things wrong.

As for the idea of centrally controlled clubs in development area's - don't think it will be succesfull and would be too big a risk for the top suits who would be held accountable for failure.

don't worry they are tangling themselves up in there own web of lies they will run out of them eventually.

lets just hope the Crusaders can't get back on there feet so we actually have a chance for the next franchise

Nigel Woods certainly is a man who takes a long time to say nothing. Don't believe he answered a question directly, infact every question, despite being different, was answered with the same answer just with the words mixed up. Clearly singing off a pre-approved hymn sheet including key phrases such as 'economic time' 'broad scorecard' 'we can't go into detail' etc.

Poor interviewing technique as well to be honest. Nothing pressing in the slightest.

And how many times was the word 'sport' and 'rugby' mentioned? None.

I'll learn more tonight from mr Steele but he was basically told he mustn't raise or tackle the fat controller too harshly or the club would feel the wrath of the RFL!! Basically we were gagged

Pretty much word for word what I ranted at the missus whilst watching a trademark bumbling performance from my former boss.

Balls to it all its just not worth the effort.

Same generic answer for each question thrown at him, the man repulses me tbh for what he stands for and what he has helped create.

But I am not gagged and I will be making our voices heard

Not to mention the state the fat bar steward left our club in. Sill you have to love him for the Blue Sox name.

i realise many of you are angry, but the big, almost completed stadium i pass most mornings would beg to differ with this point.

I am now of the belief that there is no real future for clubs currently not in SL ever getting in there, as in NRL/NFL. They want to focus all the support down to these clubs therefore increasing their incomes at the expense of all others. BUT, people are not that fickle and will not, as a rule, just pack up and go and support another team ( I know there are Fax fans who now follow the Bulls, but they are s).

isnt that what happened to leigh /
they make fifa look clean

why dont you put a poll up
asking all fans to vote a no confidence in the board of the rl

That's a good idea to be honest.

cant do any harm
sky will have to take notice.

get on all the boards.
nothing to lose
you have my vote
get rid of them who bring in what rl fans want
power to the people

Anyone would think the rfl was a democracy.

To start with it's not about stadiums, finance is important. Then finance is significant but it's also about facilities - they don't have a bloody clue themselves! How do we stand a chance.

"it's a credit to those clubs that have got off their backsides and delivered on the promises that they made in 2008" - how many clubs have actually done that?! Fax are one of the few that have.

Then Eddie pipes up with the sole financial backer congratulating him for putting the sport first - yet we've got a club that doesn't run at a loss, is run as a business but that's not worth shouting about cos it's not one man and his wallet?! WTF are this lot on?!
Anyone else more confused than before the announcement?!

What confuses me is this. If Wakefield were going to lose their Super League place due to having a poorer application to Crusaders and now it transpires that Crusaders are going to struggle to finish the season let alone carry on for another 3 seasons, how in gods name was the Crusaders application deemed better than Wakefields in the first place? The whole system is flawed or not looked at in any detail whatsoever or clubs are lying in their application!
Although when Mr Indipendent himself is on the panel you can see how it goes wrong. I remember the infamous lets have fans decide on the new Halifax name, vote in the paper and the rest, then ignore it all and call them Bluesox opening us up to ridicule to every other club and news paper headline wrote there on in! for Christs sake this man is now running the game. I wonder if he has still got a garage full of the CD's of that crap song as well?

Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah NahNah Nah Nah Nah Nah Bluesox.

INSPIRED!!!!!

i did find the interview rather amusing. I thought one question and its non answer in particular were informative.
Question: (and im paraphrasing) "nigel, what mistakes has the RFL made with its expansion policy in wales and the franchising system in general, and what can be done about them?"
Answer: Blah blah blah repeats the usual line about about the amateur game thriving in Wales. Thats all well and good btw. but then goes on to say "(we) THE SPORT need to look at whats gone wrong and learn from these mistakes" WHAT THE ACTUAL FECK??
not only does he completely fail to answer the question. he completely avoids any admition of responsibility, its not "(We) THE RFL" who need to look at the wales expansion policy in particular and franchising in general, its "(We) THE SPORT". when its very much the case that its the RFL who needs to look at this.
Your idea, your mess, your failure. At least admit it and stop trying to rope in the clubs and everyone else involved in the sport to share the blame.

Maybe it wasnt.