Anybody listen to GMR this afternoon? Jack Dearden was very scathing of the RFL regarding the Celtic farce, unfortunately everybody missed the point, SKY pull the strings, no one else, not even the RFL.

The silence from other clubs indicates to me that they have been warned - keep your mouth shut if you want to keep eating from the top table, or else.....

At least Phil Clarke asked the right questions on Boots 'n' all - unlike his two mates.....

Not like GMR to tell it how it is! I was shocked.

You probably will profit but that still does not help all the other clubs and that is whats wrong with the so called RL family, it mirrors todays society of "I'm allright Jack".

Widnes think a Franchise is in the bag and I don't have any problem with this but if publically stating what was obviously a disgrace is going to effect your chances of reaching the promised land, well I don't care if we ever get there, and I'm being serious.

We've played that card too many times and too many times it has come up the joker and we have lost out... time and time again we have tried to take on the RFL, (quite often on our own) and now the club are taking a different approach which seems to be gaining us some ground.
The RFL family is dead unfortunately and the game is now split into the haves and the have nots... I want (and the people that run this club want), the team to be in SL and flourish.

I like it in the championship and wouldn't be too disheartened to stay but I think things will get worse from 2011 onwards and we will become nothing more than a bunch of feeder clubs. There is little in the way of an alternative. This club has terrific potential and I want my club to achieve this.

never have truer words been spoken. The day this happens is the day I turn my back of RL for good. The future beyond then is bleak, 2011 is breaking point, we have to achieve SL status.

Absolutely agree..
RL has in many ways benefited to varying degrees from having such 'hands on' administrators.. Video Referees, Summer Rugby, Salary Cap, etc etc. but I honestly think that the plan from here-in is just unsustainable and not been thoroughly thought out.

Pat Price summed it up beautifully on announcement day when she said.
'the leaves of expansion are green... but the roots are dying!!!'

Why does that not suprise me? She is like the third grandma to every Widnes fan below 50. What a woman. although you are hearing it now, hands off.