www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/21634020 with big nige in there corner looks like london are a sure thing for the top table AGAIN and the same better supported, better run and a hell of a lot more tradition are going to be shafted it is about time this club was cut addrift and forced to stand on its own two feet without the rest of the rl clubs having to keep them afloat

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/21634020 with big nige in there corner looks like london are a sure thing for the top table AGAIN and the same better supported, better run and a hell of a lot more tradition are going to be shafted it is about time this club was cut addrift and forced to stand on its own two feet without the rest of the rl clubs having to keep them afloat

I'll let you tell every single young player currently playing the game south of Birmingham that if they want a pro career they have to move the M62 corridor then.

Enjoy.

that article is 3 months old.

Taken you this long to misunderstand something enough to be outraged by it?

Typical in RL.

Did you pass English in school?

Have you ever come into contact with English punctuation? I am not refering to anything complicated, just the full stop and the capital letter to create sentences. I have met some people from Widnes who speak and write in sentences. You should try to emulate them.

Finally, do you know the difference between "there" and "their?" I do, and I am not even English.

Pack in the insults.

Can't see London been safe at all. They must be favourites (with my team Castleford) for the drop if we go down to 12 teams in 2015.

And if Toulouse are to come in, make it another 4 or 5 who's backsides will be squeaking.

beg to differ they are as safe as houses. widnes will be shafted again, we were shafted at the start of sl, we were shafted to let the french in (but we did know that before the season started so that was our fault) and we were shafted to let salford and the welsh in even though we were the better club as has been proven by what happend 3 years later. so with our track record widnes are defo on top of the hit list as far as the rfl are consernd just depends who else is on it , all i know is the disaster from down south are a shoe in for the 12 whatever happens

So you weren't shafted then? Or are you saying you shafted yourselves?

Seriously, that's a huge chip on your shoulder.

I'm sure Salford won the league and grand final the year you were shafted?

I don't think he has an axe to grind with Salford as such. But the feeling was that at that time, certainly amongst Widnes fans is that we should have been given the nod.

Why should widnes have got the nod? There must of been a valid reason they weren't given a franchise? Wasn't it because you hadn't won a trophy before the licence period?

Not sure that criteria was part of the process at that time. It was soon after Steve O'Connor took over as Chairman from that crook Vaughan and we were plainly in a position to go into Superleague but the powers that be deemed that it was too soon after being in administration for us to go into SL.

O'Connor was obviously a different animal totally from the previous chairman and had offered cast iron guarantees and a £500k bond to ensure security but that still wasn't good enough. We were absolutely financially solvent but they decided against us.

We had a stronger championship team at that time and could arguably have made a better on field impact in our first season rather than qualifying via the NRC and then bumbling on for almost two seasons with a decidedly average team (why spend on a good team when we'd already secured 'promotion') and then having to find more quality players than we had 2 years previously.

You've answered the question mate, you went into admin and the rules were you cant be considered for a franchise if your club had been in admin at any one time in the previous 3 year period.

Pretty much. What we were bothered by though was that we had been taken into admin by a crook and the new owner was a totally trustworthy, solvent businessman of some repute who had offered assurances and half a million of his own cash to back that up.

We were a totally different club to the one that went into admin..........I know rules are rules but the RFL make them up as they go along so why shouldn't we!!!!

What nationality are you then because your not French

What makes you so certain that I am not French?

Is it just because I am so fluent in the English language?

You're

to clarify, does this mean you want him to...


fit in as many insults as he can...

or....

stop insulting people

I'm sure you are well aware what I meant.

As is the Englishman pretending to be a Frenchman.

Nigel Wood just stated in a public q&a session with fans that London and Catalan would not have any protection once the new structures for 2015 come in. Whichever structure it is

and you beleve that the cats ,wigan,wire,leeds,bradford, saints,hudds all safe, hull salford london by hook or by crook will be manipulated to be safe the rest of us will be cast adrift never to return as the fan base will disapear to the same level as the chapionship sides all the hard work undone to satisfy the moaning of some pit village sides who cant get a crowd even if they made entry free

Classic RL Meltdown

get back under your bridge