news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 885900.stm Defo one out, got to be Wakey or Castleford but personally think London are lucky if they get a new licence.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 885900.stm Defo one out, got to be Wakey or Castleford but personally think London are lucky if they get a new licence.

Cas & Wakey to merge on the cards imo

we need 3 out,harlequins,catalan and celtic.all three parasites.widnes,halifax and one more championship side in.

It would be the logical thing to do however I think both clubs seem too stubborn to do this, the fact they wont even share a ground is a joke and should cost them both their places IMO.

Can understand the stubborn attitude they are rivals, however I think they will have no option in the end...I agree if they refuse they should both go.

Are the 5 criteria:
1 Commercial, marketing, media and community.
2 Facilities.
3 Finance.
4 Governance and business management.
5 Playing strength and player performance strategy.

the same as headings used for current 10 areas then?:

Capacity of 12,000
Premier competition standard ground
Average crowd of 10,000
Operating at 40 per cent full
Turn over £4million
Solvent
Contribution to competition
Junior development
No salary cap breaches
No club within 20 miles

?

Bye, Wakefield.

bye harlequins

We all know that Catalans, Harlequins and (assuming they are still in business) Crusaders are untouchable so its one from Cas, Wakey and Salford.

Never going to happen.

All prejudice aside; who contributes least to Super League? Has to be Harlequins for me.

Ideally I'd like to see a Cas/Wakey merger, bringing Widnes in.
Admit the London experimet hasn't worked and give up, bringing in some form of Cumbrian side, a heartland of the game without SL representation is ridiculous.
Force the Crusaders back to South Wales or withdraw their franchise.

For me it should be one of either Quins, Wakey or Salford.

I think the Quins have had more than enough time over the years (in all their guises) to make it work and grow the game and fanbase in the biggest catchment area of the whole of SL. What do they really bring to SL? Problem is the RFL wont admit to it being a failure.

bye Salford?

I still think away attendances should be taken into account, clubs like us, dobbins etc are puttin cash into the pockets of the local communities when we travel so why shouldn't that be included?

It doesn't matter how little the Harlequins have brought to the super league, they'll be given a license; the RFL want a London club.

I agree. Taking FC as an example (on your site) if Hudds give attendance as 6978 there could well be 3000 black and whites there (40%) whereas FC have an attendance of 13000 of which 300 are hudds fans (2.5%).
Over the season I will wager the away support from Rovers and Hull will average out at 20% over all grounds. We could only wish for that away support at ours.

I think it does not make rocket science to work the outcome based on all the criteria

Widnes in
Wakefield out unless they merge!

Quins will not drop because of the RFL passion of having a London based club!!
However remember the inside news coming out of Wrexham is awful reading and they could disapear all on their own, you cant loose that much money day in day out and not jump ship ...

It's quite cringeworthy when i look over to the away end on matchdays i think it was at cas when we were nearly 50% of their attendance

Anyone thing a combined Cumbrian side would work in SL?

That was bizarre - entering the ground it looked like a home tie for us.

I don't think you would have to combine them but a cumbrian club needs to be in super league as do widnes, fax and feath

before we took on welsh and french teams that exact senario whould have been where we took our RFL cash in the first place.
British RL needs a vibrant Cumbria team in SL and RL needs Cumbria however i think there is little chance of mergers in Cumbria to pull it off ... has anyone ever experienced the rivalry between those teams jeez makes us and rovers look tame

But yes i would love a Cumbria side in SL, weekends on the lakes, fishing and RL what more could you ask for

I think they should try a Cumbrian side for 3 years just as in France and S Wales.
I was talking to 2 guys at the London Game and they had moved to London from Workington for work reasons, even they said it was a struggle for crowds down there.If the London crowd was 3k then over 50% must have been from Hull.As every one else says London will still be in.I agree it looks like Waky out and Widnes in at least they would bring some support.

A win



It's a great place to go and would be great to see superleague up their