How ironic that a Rovers fan should start a thread about another club receiving special dispensation!!

@ u lololol

Except that quote mentions nothing aobut the salarcy cap and everything about the overseas quota

God you Leigh folk are thick.
How about if Celtic were allowed no overseas payers but had double the salary cap? Same problem

No Robbie paul s playing for free ala Radlinski and then hes becoming academy coach in 2 years time

The easiest solution for the RFL is to expand the Championship to 12 clubs, 2 up and keep Leigh, then introduce one new club + Donny to C1.

As it's Leigh going down however, who knows?

Rovers have no special dispensation, Lovegrove is classed as home grown till he leaves Rovers when he'll be classed as Federation Trained. Only players next season to have any kind of dispensation will be Stan if he signs a new deal! So what is your point?

Not being funny or anything but who will be leaving then (apart from azuie)
As excluding dispensations you can only have 6 overseas players next season and you have 10 this season (including two on dispensation)

hmmm



Yep, you've got it

Don't talk rubbish. Magicking a club from thin air is never the easiest solution, it's actually a very difficult one

The problem lies with 2 things

Lop sided fixtures with clubs missing games sometimes 2/3 even 4 weeks without any game and even longer without a home game

The RFL were hoping either a Scottish or Irish ' investor ' would be looking to set up a new expansion club

But with the " current unstable economic situation " and the fiasco that has been the Celtic ' visagate ' that is now looking unlikely for a few years

So where does that leave us ? , basically they need to find another club , any club anywhere will do , so come on Bramley you know you want to



Then we have the real problem with the competitions outside SL

All bar one or two clubs are struggling to raise enough revenue to spend up to the salary cap in either division without massive input from their BOD,s

No clubs are making increases in attendances

No clubs are improving off the field to any large degree

This is what is needed more than anything else

None of these clubs are going to draw in big money investors , even the expansion clubs that then do have a pathway to eventually make SL

The clubs outside SL need investment to improve their fan bases and ultimatley their income streams

But do the RFL want the current clubs both heartland and expansion to grow ?

If this happens it will be harder for any new clubs to make the jump from an idea to a competitive Championship club

Therefore less likely for anybody to take the risk

As for any messing about to save Leigh ? , why we were rubbish we deserved to go down , we ask for SC dispensation , they either give it or dont

Either way we will still be around next year , the year after and the year after

Glasgow Highlanders anyone

Oh great, that's another away game I'll have to miss.

You do realise Roofs that all the RFL expansionist plans are specifically aimed at getting you out of rugby league by making it impossible for you to attend any games. They'll get there in the end.

Ah right, I always thought it was just a very stubborn RFL refusing to admit that RL won't work in many places outside the M62 corridor

(inc London

).

Forgive my ignorance, but surely in such a case there is a clause (ala Super League clubs who were relegated) that the contracts are only valid on the proviso that the club is still competing in that division?

Only if that clause was in the contract?

If there is no such clause in place then how can they legally end it??

er......born in London...wearing an England shirt

...both direct results of London Broncos being shoehorned into Soooooperleague. Both aged 11 and 10yrs of age when SL started.
I now this might confuse you roofs (most things do), but they are products of Local RL youth teams then our yoof accademy set up. We no longer need the RFL to bend the rules for us as we can stand on our own......remind me how many foreigners you had in your squad this year again?

Faiy play to Quins for bringing those guys through. My arguement though re our overseas players is yes, we do have quite a few at the mo. However, it is only our 3rd season in SL after years of Hull having the pick of the city's young local talent, but things are heading in the right direction. Are you saying you wasn't still a team mostly full of Aussie players by 98 (your third season in SL too), because I rqather think you were.

Dont forget that SL and the NL,s/Championships are and always have been seperate competitions

There has never been ' criteria or certain outside standards ' that needed to be met to be promoted between the 2 divisions outside SL

Makes a change for things to go in our favour

Don't count your chickens just yet.......the RFL move in mysterious ways

1882..........to 2009.......127 years of Rugby League History and still you need to get a helping hand from the RFL




LondonFulhamCrusaderBroncoQuinsRL are 30 years old next year........with less overseas players on their squad than some heartland SL clubs and we are producing them all on our own without having to steal other teams good young prospects.....Mmmmm, now, if only we could get people to watch them play we'd be laughing

As I said , they either give us the dispensation or we get sued for breach of contract

Dispensation or not, the status of your players contracts is a matter for your club to look into. Just because you were relegated, you don't have the right to break the cap because you have already signed Robbie Paul. There should have been (I suspect there was) a clause covering such an occurance.
Anyway, back on thread, you will p155 all over C1 next year. The only need for you to spend more than others in that division is if you really are going to have a pop at the Thomas the Tank Engine Cup as a route to a franchise application in 2011.