I'd agree with all the above.

Lots of people love to 'point out' that the RFL are 'corrupt' without offering an example as to when this corruption manifested itself. They may be incompetent on occasion but they're not corrupt.

I don't think they're inompotent, more naive. The RFL act in the best interests of the game as a whole, whilst the clubs act in their own interests first, and the game, a distant second.

They forget about that pal.

Celtic and Salford will be in me thinks, and i predict Celtic to be non-existant within 3 seasons.

Nah wont the rfl bail them out like they did many times with london/quins

But not Widnes why i ask ?

Dont know to be honest maybe the rfl have lost the love for the heartland of rugby league!




anyway i think Celtic and Salford will get in!

Todays made up fact.

Correct, my team at work is the PQS on it.

i may be wrong with this but i thought that the rfl helped out the london broncos as they were struggling off the field and cancelled some debts owed to them! Thats when they changed there names to quins!

As i said i maybe wrong infact i probably am but please be nice i am still quite new to rugby league after only watching the game for 3/4 years

you're wrong.

ok thanks thats put me in my place

like i said i am relativley new to the sport!

wouldn't worry about it, there's plenty of longstanding rugby league speccies get that wrong about the broncos, quite a lot on purpose.

Quote ="Supermole"ok thanks thats put me in my place like i said i am relativley new to the sport!'" Here is the meat on the bones. You weren't so much wrong as incorrect. It had nothing to do with the RFL. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/ma ... perleaguex

Quote ="Supermole"ok thanks thats put me in my place like i said i am relativley new to the sport!'" Here is the meat on the bones. You weren't so much wrong as incorrect. It had nothing to do with the RFL. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/ma ... perleaguex

Quote ="getdownmonkeyman"Here is the meat on the bones. You weren't so much wrong as incorrect. It had nothing to do with the RFL. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/ma ... perleaguex'" thanks for this i now have a better understanding i seem to remember this happening i just got a little confused thinking it was the rfl that bailed out

Quote ="getdownmonkeyman"Here is the meat on the bones. You weren't so much wrong as incorrect. It had nothing to do with the RFL. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/ma ... perleaguex'" thanks for this i now have a better understanding i seem to remember this happening i just got a little confused thinking it was the rfl that bailed out

Don't worry, as said above, lots of people who were RL fans at the time still don't understand it. They seem to think that 'SL clubs voting between them with the backing of the RFL to allow the Broncos to continue as a SL club' somehow equals 'the RFL are corrupt and gave them loads of money'. To those with even half a brain, it obviously doesn't.

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Disagree with the strategy of expansionism and you are a nenaderthal hey? Doesnt sound like a sophisticated argument to me, infact its almost neanderthal.

Or, perhaps the blind fear of expansion without a rational argument makes you a neanderthal?

It'll never work! Catalans make the CC Final after two seasons.

It'll never work! Catalans firmly ensconced in third and in a rich vein of form heading towards the play-offs.

Keep it to the M62 corridor, it's heartlands where we can all in each others pockets.

Have to say all 12 SL Teams with Celtic and Salford. Would love Widnes to get one but their crowds and on pitch performances arent good enough.

"Murryfield Magic Games"

Leeds vs Stains
Wire vs Wigan
Quins vs Bradford
Catalan vs Hudds
Cas vs Wakey
Celtic vs Salford
Hull vs Hull KR

All Evenly matched games IMO (With Exception to Wakey vs Cas only based on this years games)

Good except would have Cats V Bradford and Quins V Hudds

I think the success of catalans shows that franchise will work

Teams will build for the future knowing that they have at least three years of super league money behind them!

I had Cats vs Bradford, but for some reasn changed it...

Would agree with changing them to that...