I'd just add that to referees!

Definatly lack of media coverage,,,,,,,Especially now the "Soccer" Season starting up here in a couple of weeks,,,,,

Absolutely. Widnes should have been in last round over us, although Wakefield and Salford would have been below us in the pecking order.

if the RFL deem castleford to be the weakest club in SLE do you think widnes will bring more to SLE than cas?

Youth academy -> Widnes's is better
Money -> Widnes could probably spend more
Stadium -> Better stadium
Attendances -> Fairly equal in the attendance stakes
Competitivity -> Who knows?

I think Widnes have the potential to be as good as Hull KR, if not better.

Phil Clarke.

I also wonder - really - how many of those fans expressing a desire for their club to be promoted to SL would actually enjoy the experience? In their current state Halifax would get mullered, seriously mullered. Until we get the finance in place we need to stay where we are. I'd say the same to Leigh fans and Fev fans alike. What i find distasteful is the sheer contempt the RFL have for The Championship competition. The seemingly ad-hoc nature of the fixture lists, the last minute re-arrangements of matches, the massive gaps between home matches and the stop start nature of the whole season highlights the lack of any real pre-season forethought to the season ahead. In reality, It's nothing more than a prep school for wannabe Super league clubs. Only the clubs and their Chairmen can put a stop to that but they're just not strong enough. That said, i still enjoy my weekly fix of Rugby League. I still get a buzz watching Fax so i'm happy enough.

I think the RFL need to start focusing more on the lower leagues and strengthening them. It will be interesting to see whether there is an upsurge in ticket sales at Batley following their success at Blackpool.

It has to be a two-way process too. I don't think there's the will amongst Chairmen to get together to thrash out a 5 year plan to benefit all clubs. It has the potential to be a much better competition.

Where is the option for narrow minded, chip on shoulder fans?

Warrington

Well they have to do that!

The players are too thick to it right otherwise and would be constantly penalised for offside

The thing that annoys me about RL are these so called 'experts' of our game that claim to know everything when clearly they do not.

People that think they know everything are annoying to those of us who DO

One of the best posts ive ever read!

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Totally agree with every word and totally sums up that we are actually moving away from being a sport.

I happen to think the playoff system is shockingly awful and does not reward the better teams over the season leaving them at risk to being knocked out in a one off game by a £ refereeing decision costing them an entire season!

But ive said that on many threads!

Australia.

Don't blame you there.

It must be terrible not to have beaten Australia in a major RL competition since Jesus was in Kindergarten

I think if you change the option "Financial Running of RFL" to something like "Competence of Running the Game by the RFL" you might have got more votes.

You're probably right there! If i'd put Eddie and Stevo in I think a few would have gone that way too.

what he said

You could have just shortened it down by just saying "Dally Messenger". Would have saved yours and everybody elses time...

Nah, he talks a lot of sense.

He wont be on here much longer.

Hopefully he is going to pursue a new career in the movies as my stunt double in the new 'Gareth Thomas...The Movie' flick starring Barry McKenzie as Gareth Thomas








Well he wont be able to sit down long enough to press 'Ctrl +V' anyway.......

Yeah Barry he would have learned that from playing yawnion.

As for the future,no thanks.

Agreed. Where is that option?

Feeding at the Scrum
Forward passes not being picked up by touch judges
Aussie Accents
Eddie & Stevio replace with Bill Arthur
To much emphasis on Professional RL for development in new areas. Amateur RL should be given more status for RL development.