widnes lot are planning to open bars at the ground for the day the superleague licences get announced are halifax doing the same with only afew days to go before d-day o thought there would be something on here

We could open some bars to toast Widnes and their unexpected success.....

you never no on the widnes forum they are saying theres something big to announce on the 4th april which is roumoured to be that probiz are going to be the new major sponsors of the superleague with the demands that both his teams are in superleague fax and cas

More likely be April 1st for that I think.

Aint Faisil sponsored Wigan too. It Will now be called the Probiz show instead of super league show.

Widnes are sure for the nod, arn't they ?.

You'd think so but if they don't they'll have to cordon off Runcorn Bridge.

The big announcement is Widnes related, so nothing to do with Probiz.

To be honest anything could happen with the RFL.I am not 100% confident, so not all Widnes fans are arrogant.I would like to see Widnes and Fax in superleague as some teams think they have the devine right to be in Dooper League.Wakey would struggle if got demoted as the Championship tough on a small salary cap.They would lose Kear and need start with a new team.

As I mentioned elsewhere people have been told by staff at the Stobart that SKY will have cameras both there and at The Shay so must be something unless just for staff? Don't you have a new bar under new stand people could gather in?

Makes me cringe thinking back to last time. Few hundred fans stood with players & SO'C at Widnes whereas Salford had about 10 staff and Crusaders had about 6 people sat there and not one looked shocked / emotionally thrilled at announcement... So obvious they already knew

No sky cameras at barra then? Interesting

The clubs were told an hour or so before the public announcement by phone IIRC.

Barrow didn't even meet all of the minimum criteria though. They missed out on the attendance figure. With them being out in the open there isn't even the possibility that they could make figures up in the application document.

Did you ever release your financials by the way?

It was by fax and they showed the Cru CEO (left before start of SL '09) getting the fax off the machine and considering all the hard work put even over the years he hardly seemed ecstatic, nor excited even

I agree, it's about time that there was a shake up, bringing in some new blood might do everybody else some good and it would send a message to all Champ clubs that if they put the effort in they will be rewarded. Complacency seems to have set in with a few SL clubs thinking all they need is a new ground and that will do.

That's because he knew what was about to flow out of his wallet and the creditors accounts.

Are you sure it wasn't a request from the Department of Work and Pensions reminding them that their players were about to undergo an inspection of their work visas?

That's why he dissapeared IMO as when it cane out they said 'well the people who did that aren't here anymore' convinient eh!

I am not even going to give the announcement a 2nd thought.

What announcement ?

I remember the pain of all those grand finals we (Leigh) lost with promotion at stake, the pain as Widnes took us out in the semis, the monumental feeling for the last 10 mins of extra time v Haven in 2004. Emotional roller coaster, the NL GF was the biggest game of the year because it had the most at stake.

On announcement day the Widnes fans will feel nothing like they felt when beating us in that semi or beating Oldham in the final, or losing to Cas or HKR. The RFL has taken that away from us all.

Sport = extreme joy and pain at whatever moment in time, no longer important to the RFL.

And Leythers move in to moan about franchising... YAWN!

If you don't want to see it , don't look

Not really as it was Fax fans discussing their plans for franchise d-day so quite interesting to see what the 'opposition' were planning. yet the usual Leyther dribble comes up yet again, get over your not involved... why? Cos you've been pi$$ poor on the pitch so yea laugh at us all you want but that is the FACT no-one cares about Leigh because of ON THE FIELD ISSUES!

If I remember rightly Widnes haven't exactle outshone everyone with their performances on the pitch either. What they've done off the field has put them in with a chance of a SL place.

To qualify to bid you had to win NRC / Reach a grand final we did that full stop.

My main debate here was Leigh moaning about franchises as makes 'on the picth' not important, however had THEY performed on the pitch then they could of applied, so in a sense their point is invalid.