You get clubs that do though both hull teams bring a few to us ever season leeds and brad do but these men bring sweet fa

Fair enough about catalan home att but there not bringing enough into the game the like of widnes or barrow would imo

What makes a team worth keeping in the league then?

Performance or fanbase?

Crusaders - coming on leaps and bounds this year, on and off the pitch! And they're 18-0 up against Bulls now.

Quins - poor crowds but capable of some good results (see the result againts us!)

Catalan - Great season last year, good home fanbase but having a poor season this year (like us a few years ago) and if every away game cost me hundreds of pounds I'd wouldn't travel much either!

It's not the number of clubs Yorkshire have which is the problem it's the fact many of them aren't the forces they should be.

The Wakey/Cas area has produced some top class players like Lynch, Ellis, Shenton, Westerman, Owen & Orr but the clubs seem to buy crap Aussies even in the current franchise era.

Where are the crowds as well?

A merger would have been a tough call but it would have been the right one IMO.

The question is why was they brought in the league?

Cause they want to expand the game so how long are they going to give them to boost the game in all those areas?

Widnes there is history there they have a decent fan base which will grow coming into sl and they will bring good players to the club with the cap

Don't fret, Widnes will be in next time round.

Fair point, and for the record I think Widnes deserve a place more than the above teams!

Why?

I hope so mate i was guttedfor them last time round the main worry is why have toulouse been brought straight into nl1 and they dont have to meet the criteria to apply for sl?

The rfl want these men in aswell bringing more has been aus players over for a payday it will turn into a massive jokeif there not carefull

Widnes handled the rejection well. The same can't be said for our lobby gobbling friends.

I really don't understand your reasoning, KW. The powers that be are trying to expand the game out of the M62 corridor and, therefore, expand the talent pool. They've already succeeded in London with several London born players coming through with Quins. If Catalan, Crusaders and Toulouse are similarly successful then the game will be in great shape.

Widnes - IN
Whichever one has made less progress with a stadium in Cas/Wakey - OUT

Leigh have no chance, nor do Barrow. Halifax possibly, but id be surprised.

Never get tired of looking at this.



Chances are here will be gone for a while again.

Kear's comments: Quote "They were loads better than us, that's the top and bottom of it" "They did the process of rugby league much better than us. Their completion rate in those conditions was phenomenal. It wasn't just tuck it up your jumper, they played very well. "It was a pretty poor performance by us but Wigan contributed to that. You are never going to trouble a team if you don't get through your sets. "We looked a tired team in the second half."'" www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html

Kear's comments: Quote "They were loads better than us, that's the top and bottom of it" "They did the process of rugby league much better than us. Their completion rate in those conditions was phenomenal. It wasn't just tuck it up your jumper, they played very well. "It was a pretty poor performance by us but Wigan contributed to that. You are never going to trouble a team if you don't get through your sets. "We looked a tired team in the second half."'" www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html

VASTMAN wrote: wrote:It's all opinion and yours is no more valid than anyone elses.

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What a comic you are, who are you John Kear?????





P.S remind me never to take a bet off you

Vastman has always been a prat on the Wakey forum.. maybe he was trying to get a rise?

I was being polite when I called him a comic, ok I`ll tell it how it is he is stupid not even worth a rise.

THE BEST BITS!!

I don't think the old "he was just trying to get a bite" excuse works in this case. If that's what he was doing, he went to an awful lot of trouble analysing the two teams.

Best just to stick to your first assessment - he's a prat.

they didnt have the balls to say it in public.

but they agreed with everything leigh said about that tosspot lewis

Maybe if Leigh had kept it private they'd have come out of with some kind of class.

We could have had the Harlem Globetrotters turn out for us and Lewis would complain about the forward passes. Small town clubs do not fit in with the RFL's current remit; it's just going to be a gradual phasing out until this plan has achieved (despite the fact that the Premier League thrives on 'small towns done good')

you mean kiss his ?

say one thing in private another in public.

i call that two faced.

but then again theres something in the air in widnes

Where did vastman post that it's pure gold

Its from a thread just before we played them at home in April.