celtic are the safest team of the lot..up there with wigan,leeds etc...

How many are currently in your squad?

Reintroducing it a year before the licence decisions is a gamble that may not pay off. Plus still no 18's academy? No Foundation academy? The RFL may not take that as a serious long term attitude and rewarding that would just encourage all lower division clubs to sack off their academies and reserve sides until the licence reviews are in play again.


Good luck with that, your team certainly deserve it at the moment.


Of course.

yeah i guess its due to their impressive history

dear me! i left this thread thios afternoon with sensible arguments and reasoned thought.
i've come back to find slanging matches and insults


god bless you all

This thread was started by Albert the Phallus and, therefore, could never be described as having 'sensible arguments and reasoned thought.' It was always going to be a slanging match. That's how he likes it.

once his 'outdoors time' was over it turned into a decent thread.
albert, dally and damo-leeds should do the club circuit.

................ or should just be clubbed.

but after the act!

It isn't a "yes" or "no" case though, is it? If someone meets the criteria in more of a way than someone else, then they are in a better position for a franchise. Not everyone will have the same case, even if they all meet the minimum criteria. The RFL will pick and choose the best applications, not just ones that meet the criteria.

It is not a question of "biting" old chap. I have started a serious thread that people are interested in participating in -- even if most of them didn't answer my specific question. 200 postings and 14 pages tells you that RL fans are interested in the subject.

Sometimes I am having a laugh, and sometimes I am very serious. This thread is an example of the latter. Pity you can't tell the difference.

Do you mean to suggest you'd be happy seeing RL fall behnd other sports financially and lack the means to hold onto its' best players?

i think he did

Tis true. I recall recently having a sensible conversation on a thread with you last week. It was a refreshing change from the norm, although i did think that i'd ingested some mind altering drugs

The RFL has made clear it can add numbers to Super League as well as subtract. But it almost certainly doesn't want an odd number total left because it doesn't want byes every week. Odd numbers means one club has at least one week when it is not earning gate money. Even numbers mean every club is making gate money every week.

So unless the RFL is planning to subtract one or three clubs from SL in 2012, expect an even number, almost certainly two, to be added in the 2011 decisions.

But remember as I said at the beginning, Richard Lewis/the RFL announced last year that in future there is no limit on the number of clubs that can be admitted to Super League each franchise decision year. That is why I was asking the fans: if you had the realistically optimum number of additional clubs over the next two rounds of licenses, who would you like to see have a license, from both Anglo Celts and continentals, up to a maximum of six?

Believe it or not, professional sport is a business and businesses require money to function!

If you didn't want it to be about money, you wouldn't support a professional team.

are fax pro?

However bye weeks make sense. it gives player time to recover, this leads to reduction in the chances of "wear and tear injuries"

this means clubs can actually use the players they pay and not see their wages sat on a physios bench

Do they pay their players?

i wasn't having a go mate, i was asking a genuine question.

I agree that wear and tear injuries are a problem. The NRL has it too, and they play less games than Super League does. But the NRL clubs say that while the bye weeks give the players a physical rest, they are often bad because they put clubs off their psychological intensity, and often the players underperform the week after the bye.

yes

I would prefer a even comp IMO, we all do have SQUADS and that would force us to use them, instead of fringe players been paid to sit in the stands.

What happens when all the best players switch to RU because they see it as big time and RL as small time?

Then all the SL clubs will be ed and it won't matter a jot to someone who's club is in the Championship?

why would that all of a sudden happen now? has the game suddenly become impoverished?
creating these expansion teams could do more harm than good, have you considered that?