I see you have been very busy on the recruitment front and you've snapped up some real gems too. Patten, Nero and Wild in particular look to be a signal of intent that you are here for the forseeable and good thing too! I am guessing your board must have heard something, meaning either Cas or Wakey are due for the chop otherwise why spend as heavily on contracts as you must be doing right now with all these stars. By the way, how about Menzies from Bradford? Could see it happening.

The Manchester part wasnt ment to offend was a little wind up I threw in,I appologise if it caused offence.....Coz I aint no scouser,You are defo in tho,Tricky 239 all but confirms it lol

I'll not believe any of the rumours until I see it live on Sky sports news. We're just at risk as the others. Just cos the BBC and manchester are close by and we'll be building the stadium doesn't guarantee us anything.

As I have mentioned before the whole thing is totally stupid, what happens when it is announced which club is going, that club might as well pack up their bags, stop playing and wait for the next year. the fans will not bother to turn up because there is nothing to turn up for, players will be looking for other clubs and most likely stop playing to avoid injury, thus making a complete mockery of the league next season. In the first half of the season it will be all competative, second half, which will affect play off places will just be walk overs for teams playing the team kick out.
The rugby league may even face a legal challenge after announcing that a championship club will come up even before they have seen the applications, so in effect negating the whole process, and will it be a level playing field, will favourism be soon to clubs in London, Wales or France, do these clubs just have put in their application on the back of a fag packet?
The Rugby League is poorly managed and the applications for a licence for 2012 are already flawed by this mismanagement, we can only hope we have done enough because what ever club is kicked out will most likely never get back and will end up either playing in the lower divisions are going bust.
But if people are pointing at Cas, wakey or Us, how about one of the Hull clubs after all the Rugby League in their original plan for the future was all about one team from different Citys, so for expansion that would be logical one city one club.

i think that all applications should be put up online for everyone to see. This would stop the fans becoming sceptical about who has to put effort in and who gets a 'free pass'.

Agreed. Full details of all bids should be public.