: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:17 pm  

griffax wrote:

and Widnes fans say we are bitter????????????

I am a little mate but i have always been a fair person.I think every team should be treated fairly.In my opinion their should always be promotion and relegation.This would be a joke in football.Why should celtic be allowed as many aussies as possible?Funny how leighs only overseas player is rejected and celtic,catlans it ok for.Anyway that old ground and maybe sense will allow fax and widnes in superleague.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:02 pm  

I voted for Widnes. I thought it would be sour grapes to vote for Barrow, and Widnes are doing it tough like others. Barrow are just big spending, with a big mouth for a chairman, so come on Widnes.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:21 pm  

If you are going to get beat in a cup game ain`t it better to be beaten by the eventual winners.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:34 pm  

spanishbob wrote:

I voted for Widnes. I thought it would be sour grapes to vote for Barrow, and Widnes are doing it tough like others. Barrow are just big spending, with a big mouth for a chairman, so come on Widnes.

What and Mr O'Connor (of Eddie Stobbards fame) has not spent much at Widnes???
This is the money bags Final come on.
I wonder how much each Chairman will be offering each team to win it???
My bet is the Barrow lads get offered the most.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:40 pm  

Soldierboy wrote:

Widnes for me they deserve some luck after been robbed of sl by some welsh sheep shaggers.

I thought you weren't allowed in 'cos of financial difficulties ?


Final ? What final....

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:50 pm  

I just hope that it's a good game and a credit to our League so I don't have to put up with any "how do you watch that?" comments from Super Duper League fans wathing their only Championship game of the season.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:57 pm  

Could not really care less as neither like nor hate either Widnes or Barrow. I will not be watching but still hope its a good game. I have a soft spot for Fev, Batley and Gateshead in our league and would of liked one of them in the Fianl if not us. But anybody else not too fussed

Re: who do you want to win the nrc final? : Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:37 pm  

styler wrote:

??

Not bothered who wins as Fax are not in it....may the best team on the day win it for me.

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:14 am  

Tony Fax wrote:

My late father once said ... "Antony, there's only one thing worse than an ungracious loser. And that's an ungracious winner". How right he was.

Oh come on, after all of the we'll put 100 points on someone, best by a country mile etc there was always going to a bit of a backlash. The way some Fax fans have been carrying on for the past few months its been like Hull KR were back in the division.

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:19 am  

I didnt vote because I didnt want to get accused of sour grapes by Widnes fans or of being a one eyed rabid Barrow hating jealous psychopath by Barrow fans.

Therefore, I go for the draw. Even after extra time all will be tied and the RFL will be forced to slice the trophy in two. Each team will get half, along with half a franchise place for 2011.

This will lead to a merger between the two known as WideBrownArse (anagram of Widnes and Barrow) who will play half the games in each town (urban sprawl will get them in the end anyway). This will entail the first half being played in Barrow and the second half in Widnes, with a stopover in Scotland at half time. This way they get around a number of the RFL pre-requisites for SL for location and developing regions and as the team will be populated with nine year old Australians, it also meets the youth development criteria. The purchase of a pie factory for Nigel Wood will also be a mandatory condition from next year and this is being planned along with new floodlights.

Fans will be forced to form a WideBrownArse militia, led by Vikingman and his sidekick PeteNorth. Both will be tied in a marital union to blend black & white with blue & white and they will spawn lots of little mutant src's and pepe's who will run round the grounds with their air horns and drums complaining that everybody hates them. They will not be wrong !

The charimen of each club will combine their millions in an act of love (after signing a pre-nuptual agreement) and will transport fans around the country in Eddie Stobart trucks free of charge. Players will be publically flogged for poor performances and the chairmen will use that famous finger (John Hopoate style) to encourage players to run faster and harder. With a business model this succesful before long they will be as big as Real Madrid, Brisbane Broncos while still dreaming of reaching the exalted status of Hull KR.

All around the country there will be chants of "Up the WideBrownArse" !


So much to play for in the final you see, shame we missed out.