Barnsley will not be available for the Wildcats to rent, this is due to the amount of football currently played there, currently Barnsley First Team and Reserves. It would not be viable to also allow Super League games as this would cause major problems with the playing surface. Barnsley are not looking to relocate there reserve team. So whats plan C.

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Best laugh I have had in ages and also the worst TROLL ever... amazing!

Good point Gizmo, let's wait and see.

Starting to see a trend...

Obviously did not hear what was said at the Shareholders meeting.

There are a couple of SL quality stadiums available to us at a viable rent should we get a franchise in 2012 but thats a different matter. Failure to get a franchise makes all the talk of football stadia irelevant.

forget c think its time to get out the A-Z

May as well stop talking then because we ain't getting one. Anyone that genuinely believes we will is deluding themselves. Widnes are in, and the last place is between Cas, Halifax & Toulouse. We ain't even in the running.

Now as this season is being marketed as the last at Belle Vue and as such people may have made purchases based on this fact (in fact I know there has been) then should we rock up down there again then we may just have a false advertising problem going on. Don't ever recall seeing any disclaimers anywhere.

Nor are Toulouse. They've not qualified to apply.

Your correct they haven't qualified to apply but they were invited to apply under the expansion banner and thus had extra time to make their application. It was probably just to keep them sweet as they were threatening to pull out of the championship because of the financial pressure it puts them under and whether they put a bid or will do in i'm not sure. But a second french SL team has a lot of support within redhall, especially with frances failure to qualify for the four nations.

News to me. You got a source for this little snippet?

It's in the operational rules regarding who can apply for a license. There is a clause which states any other non-English club the RFL may chose to invite to apply, or words to that effect.

With all your boards talk of SL (I understand the need to stay posistive) I do hope for your sake they are strongly considering options should you be 'relegated' as the last think you'd want then is a big rent agreement signed at a football stadium that you simply couldn't afford as income drops dramatically!

And it's been there since 2007. Saying that the RFL [imay[/i invite applications from non-UK clubs, ie those outside the championship, doesn't mean that Toulouse [ihave[/i been invited, which is what the Theboyem claimed to be the case, and what I'm asking for evidence of.

Fair enough.

If there was a written source then I would point you that direction but I don't believe there is. But i was told by someone close to the rfls 'inner circle' that they had indeed been invited to apply, though at the time there were doubts whether they would due to funding issues that the club had/has. I have no idea if they applied or are going to but the invite was made to them because of the concern over the poor number of international standard French players coming through and getting the chance to play top level RL.

Up to you whether you believe it or not mate, but i know I do.