Perhaps the FA cup semi finals and the London Marathon had something to do with this fixture taking place on Friday night.

That sir is an excellent point and makes a lot of sense.

The only thing pathetic is your post.

You're clearly not daft, but your insistence on repeatedly setting up this straw man argument makes you look increasingly so.

For the last time - deriding the RFL's expansion failures and wanting WTW to increase their attendance are not mutually exclusive of each other; to argue against doing one in favour of doing the other makes no sense.

Are you Nigel Wood?

I just don't understand your constant need to come over all morally superior, every time someone criticizes any team or the expansion process. Just because I or any fan support Trinity, doesn't mean we can't voice our opinion on aspects of RL, whether you like the subject or not . At the end of the day that's what this forum is for, discussing all aspects of RL and we don't have to 'get our own house in order' to have a opinion.

I don't, i think we are battling against the RFL for a SL franchise.

I also believe we will not get one (at this present time) and that ours will not be the weakest application IF they follow the critera laid down.

I also believe that being a development side and having a new stadium is the be all and end all of the RFL and the critera is little more than a fairy tale.

No doubt i'll be shot down but thats my view.

Quote ="BIGAL1"I also believe that being a development side and having a new stadium is the be all and end all of the RFL and the critera is little more than a fairy tale.'" Agree 100%. Interesting comments on the 2009-2011 licences from RU commentator Brian Moore in this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80 ... e_licences

Quote ="BIGAL1"I also believe that being a development side and having a new stadium is the be all and end all of the RFL and the critera is little more than a fairy tale.'" Agree 100%. Interesting comments on the 2009-2011 licences from RU commentator Brian Moore in this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80 ... e_licences

Careful, they'll be asking if you actually are a fan or "pretending" to be one next......

It's shame really, cos I think its a worthwhile topic for discussion, but nobody seems to wants to do that - it's much easier to tell you to do one and accuse you of being a doom and gloom merchant and negative (or the the moral majority!) rather than offering an argument of their own back in return.

Quote ="trin77"Agree 100%. Interesting comments on the 2009-2011 licences from RU commentator Brian Moore in this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80 ... e_licences'" The ray French comment is so funny and out of touch

Quote ="trin77"Agree 100%. Interesting comments on the 2009-2011 licences from RU commentator Brian Moore in this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80 ... e_licences'" The ray French comment is so funny and out of touch

A bit like Ray French then

Lovely bloke that is he is but yes, you are correct!

I always liked the way he ignored completely what was happening on the field and concentrated on telling us the players weights and what amature side they played for!

Big Al wrote:
[i:1zgp31he[iI don't, i think we are battling against the RFL for a SL franchise.

I also believe we will not get one (at this present time) and that ours will not be the weakest application IF they follow the critera laid down.

I also believe that being a development side and having a new stadium is the be all and end all of the RFL and the critera is little more than a fairy tale.

No doubt i'll be shot down but thats my view.[/i

Don't know about shot down...90% of the RL world would agree with you. The whole licence process is a farce. As any decision is totally at the RL's discretion and cannot be challenged, the decision as to who is in and who is out will depend upon the RFL's and Sky's whims and fantasies.

Nail, head etc.

and he's a lawyer (as far as i can remember) so it just goes to show what thin ice the RFL is on.

Headhunter only defends the poster as he supports a team in the same boat as quins which is very pathetic if you ask me.

What boats that, the Marie Celeste???

Think it's the one that sailed from Southampton that ended up at the bottom of the ocean and should be left there to be honest.

At the risk of being accused of being negative, in what way are they on thin ice?

The franchise system is IMO 100% bent, i think if challenged it would not stand up in a court of law, neither would the clause barring clubs from legally pursuing the RFL (should it exist).
Good to hear someone from within sport and the legal profession commenting in such a way.

I think the fact he is a RU loving journo ponce is influencing him more than the fact he has a legal background.

That may well be the case, but all the RL loving journo ponce's arent saying it, so he'll have to do.
From what i understand of him, from people who know him, he's a decent fella, by the way.

Wonder what he made of his 'amateur' colleagues picking up money in their boots, undeclared to HMRC, for many years. From his legal background of course.

So the "all" the RL loving journo's are wrong and then and this 1 particular RU loving journo is right then?

I can't think of many, make that any RL journos that have come out and said that this franchise system is a joke, so Moore will have to do, as he has.