Dave Whelan has said that he will pull Wigan Athletic out of the Premier League if they scrap P&L. Maybe he'd like to withdraw Wigan Warriors from the top flight of rugby league.

Good on him , he understands the problems a licenced Premiership would cause his club , ie , being stuck at the bottom without even a relegation battle to play in ?

My point is he's quiet happy for Wigan's successful rugby league team to be in a league with no P&L.
He's talking out of the side of his mouth.

He has nothing to do with the RL team any more

He was when the clubs voted to end P&L

Well said Mr. Whelan, Imagine a sport without promotion/relegation.

Mr Whelan has never been considered a real RL fan , he needed the Warriors to be successful to help the Latics , no love lost either way

Can't believe that our league next season will have no promotion to SL and no relegation to Champ 1, its a pathetic situation.

And Champ 1 will have no relegation and almost half of its teams promoted!! Does that mean no Play offs for Champ 1 next year? Or will it be 1-3 automatic promotion spots 4-9 make the playoffs.... and only the poor sods in 10th missing out?



Knowing the RFL they'll promote from Champ 1 via a franchise system and send up skolars, gateshead, south wales and the dublin dolphins



Getting embarrassed about RL at the moment, and I am normally very proud to be a League fan. Best game in the world but as a 'sport' in this country its just pathetically run.

Fairly sure it will be the League leaders and GF winners automatically promoted + 2 others , yet another farce

And as for whichever heartland clubs don't make it

, well they have an exciting 2013 to look forward to , hopefully we'll be shaping up by then , because relegation in 2013 will really be a drop into oblivion

Wasn't Whelan the one that was against the salary cap in rugby, but in football wanted a salary cap? to benefit his clubs

Yes

A column in the Express today includes this:-

"Look at almost anywhere in football's pyramid and you will see attendances which no other country can match because it is a coherent complete system. Promotion and relegation are what make the whole system work."

The only people who don't agree with that are in charge of our game and have managed to ruin Rugby League.

Yet more faces than a octopus Whelan voted to end promotion to and from the Superleague to keep his nose in the trouth yet wants to keep relegation as if his latics drop he gets a massive parachute payment.
His only interst in Rugby was to rob us off central park to force the riversiders to play out of his new stadium.
People like him and his stadium can go and rot isnt it time for one of our more succesful clubs had its own purpose built rugby league ground like Warringtons new ground. Even Salford have a purpose built rugby ground instead of being treated like football supporters with its sterlie atmosphere



Whelan

At the moment maybe that will change.....

You mean legs surely

If we assume that an Octopus has one face, then the statement is true if a little odd.

can't they change colour though

or is that the squid

The Watcher feels sorry for Fev, they have won the league twice on the bounce losing only 3 games & they have to wait another 3yrs to find out if they get promoted.

The Budgiezilla agrees.

Could have sworn Fax won last years GF

Fev won the league leaders trophy though

Scrapping P&R in football will NEVER happen. They only need to look at the state of RL outside SL to see what a catastrophic effect it would have on football. If it ever even came close to happening the fans would stop it somehow, plus the FA have the power to veto any decision made by the clubs.

So did Leigh back in the day we then blew it by losing two home times in the playoffs.(in reply to Fred's last post).

Squid and octuppi both have the ability to change colour as they are branches of the same animal species 'incidentally so can cameleons but they are reptiles aren't they ? And I don't think frogs can or are they amphibians ?

Any chance of finding out who our coach will be or players signed up for next season ?

I would like an update from the club as to what is going on although maybe this bit should be on another thread.

One crucial difference when drawing this comparison. The premiership promotes full time to.. Full time. Super league would be promoting to full time from.. Part time where the salary cap is about a sixth. Huge difference

If it was administered properly, and distributed fairly, there has been enough money sloshed around the top level of the game, in the SDL era, to have set up a second full-time division, and a part-time third tier of clubs run with full-time backroom staff!!

Money wasted on the expansionist dream (PSG, GatesHull/Shuddersfield, Crusaders, The "Magic" concept, the farce of the overseas quota, 'loyalty payments' to fend off the advances of RU clubs, etc)

Still - the vast improvements that SDL have managed to achieve will be all apparent come the end of the month.....as we watch this country's finest battle it out for third place in the Four Nations!!!