Egg on the face of rugby league chiefs
Fev v Cas a classic example why teams from the championship should be aloud into super league.
Nothing between bottom of super league and top championship clubs, and if given the money super league clubs recieve who knows what they could acheive.

Sorry, but it's all about franchises these days.

It's the modern way.

Franchises by plenty.

Apart from today

When Fev can spend 1.6m on the cap, have suitable facilities for a 'super' league, and stard proving good young players for the England pool of players, while also increasing their gates... they are more than welcome in super league IMO, untill then they wouldn't last a season in super league. Great club, great fans, would love to see them in super league, but they need to sort more than just a 4th round tie against their rivals.

What has the franchise system done for our sport.
Clubs in administration, crowds of less than 3000, Players coming out of retirement (radford) where are the youngsters coming through, NRL players over 30 years old still coming over to play.
You want me to go on

[uTranslation[/u: Sooper Dooper franchise system in sooper dooper nice stadiums with sooper dooper nice warm pies with sooper dooper fillings and sooper dooper nice administration threats followed by sooper dooper pledges to avoid sooper dooper goings into administration lovely jubbly oh yeah sooper dooper select franchises only available to sooper dooper clubs, get real, get modern with a sooper dooper pool of fringe players from the NRL and hand them sooper dooper man of steel awards and everyone else need not apply for Sooper Dooper League, you listening Fev? Bitter? Not a bit of it.

Why not have teams buying a place in to Superleague?

When super league clubs can do all that you might have a point, if they could do that without any TV income even more so.

Franchising has been in place for 3 years. Do you seriously think that those issues you speak of have their roots from the last 3 years?

A 'classic example' for the 10th time in over 200 attempts.

Let's have a look at this thread tomorrow when the rest of the fixtures have been played.

Fev the team that had 60 put on them last week. If Fev were to go up it would be back to the same old yo yo route.

Are you suggesting that Sooper Dooper franchising isn't all it's cracked up to be?

That Sooper Dooper franchise clubs are still spending an arm and a leg on questionable overseas players to bolster their playing ranks as opposed to developing their own?

That Sooper Dooper franchise clubs are screwed without the leg-up of all that exclusive income from TV?

None of that fits in with the Sooper Dooper modern agenda.

Please excuse me while I don my flat cap and take the whippet for a celebratory walk around Fev this evening.

Once again all those against it are already in there

I agree. The clubs who do not meet the criteria should be out.

Northampton aren't.

What league were Widnes in last season?

Tell you what. Let's compare ties between lower super league sides and the top championship sides. That's what's being discussed here.

The other top championship side beat SW scorpions today so it may be difficult!

Well done the flat cappers!

Do your homework before you post. Radford came out of retirement because we had ran out of youngsters, we had 5 props injured. We have got 11 first teamers out at the moment. We just havn't got any youngsters left

Wire last season

Warrington v Keighley: 80 - 0
Warrington v Swinton: 112 - 0

Wire for 192 against 0

Both clubs were in C1 at the time, and Wire aren't a bottom SL club...

Well done Wire, but we're Swinton and Keighley in the championship last year?

Out of touch SL fan shocker......

Granted but it shows the gulf in class.

Between a top super league and teams two leagues below so is irrelevant. Well done again!

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both were C1.

you won't beat Keighley by more than 40 tomorrow