Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:19 am  

All i can say is why is it up to us to develop RL in france by inviting tolouse. I have a nasty thought that the RFL plan to lose both cas and wakey infavour of Tolouse and Widnes

I think in thier minds that in another 3 years time at least they will be able to lose a french team and still have represntation.

I do not understand the RFLs infatuation with taking the game across the length and breadth of this great land

I will be sorry to lose either cas or wakey, I'm afraid its squeaky bum time for the 2 clubs.

I also think its poor that the RFL have issued this statement. Is it to put pressure on those that have not complied fully with last times criteria????

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:38 am  

Gazemous wrote:

The club needs to react to this with a detailed plan of when things will happen. Unless the build begins before the end of the year, there isn't a hope in hell of it being opened by 2012

Work will start in Spring according to Waystone and will be opened for the 2012 season. That gives us until the end of January 2012 to complete.

Roughly 44 weeks. Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though.

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:48 am  

Fully wrote: Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though. It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious note: the stadium build is a 46 week process. From Wakefield's latest outburst: http://wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. On a separate note, I do wish that Cas & Wakefield could use their press releases to simply relay news on their own developments without the need to constantly bitch about the other's project. It makes us look like a couple of spoilt kids.

Fully wrote: Not sure how long it takes to construct a stadium though. It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious note: the stadium build is a 46 week process. From Wakefield's latest outburst: http://wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. On a separate note, I do wish that Cas & Wakefield could use their press releases to simply relay news on their own developments without the need to constantly bitch about the other's project. It makes us look like a couple of spoilt kids.

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:22 am  

[quote="StuMain"]It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious note: From Wakefield's latest outburst: http://wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. quote] The above is a more comprehansive statement than RW has ever given!! Let's hope that it's also more truthful than RW has seemingly even given. Best of luck to yeh!!

[quote="StuMain"]It's taken almost 10 years to get this far. On a serious note: From Wakefield's latest outburst: http://wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2010/08/ ... statement/ Given the groundworks already undertaken at GH, I'd expect ours should be slightly less. quote] The above is a more comprehansive statement than RW has ever given!! Let's hope that it's also more truthful than RW has seemingly even given. Best of luck to yeh!!

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:40 am  

StuMain wrote:

On a separate note, I do wish that Cas & Wakefield could use their press releases to simply relay news on their own developments without the need to constantly bitch about the other's project. It makes us look like a couple of spoilt kids.

Cringeworthy is what it is, it hardly puts across the image of a professional organisation

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:58 am  

What happens if we (or anyone) guarantee building will be completed by the start of the 2012 season, we get given a franchise based on the promise and then we fail to complete it in time?

They couldn't really do anything having thrown out/promoted whoever.

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:33 pm  

red chilli wrote:

If the RFL kick you or Wakefield out and back Quins & Celtic it's a farce , good luck Cas from Hull KR.

Based on what? Your myopic "rugby league is a local sport for local people" bias??

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:38 pm  

The Lambeth Quin wrote:

Based on what? Your myopic "rugby league is a local sport for local people" bias??

No but it is supposed based on a game played in front of 'home and visiting' fans. How does Quinns, Salford, Catalan or Crusaders do in terms of the away fans they take?

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:39 pm  

Uptoncat wrote:

................It's corrupt..........................

A sweeping statement based on what evidence? Could it be that Rugby league is a "local sport for local people"?

Re: Licences - At least 1 SL club to go // Fate decided in July : Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:39 pm  

I have just seen this post on the Fev forum thought it was pretty sums up how stupid this whole franchise thing is. I would love Rugby to just be about Rugby again.

I've got a great idea that will change the way the RFL is seen worldwide. Lets invite the 2012 Olympic Committee to follow the way we run Rugby League? This is what we do. We invite athletes from all over the world to come to London and have a knockabout in the new stadiums we have built. After a while we choose say, ten or twelve athletes to go forward to the 'Super Athlete' stage. (These will be chosen by who is wearing the nicest colours). Then, these few selected athletes run up and down a few times. It won't matter who is first or last because the winner will the one who has the best smile on television.
I believe this will bring in 100's of millions of viewers from all over world in the same way that thousands are flocking to watch non-competitive Rugby League. We can invent athletes, anyone even if they have never run before.
This way we will see a lot more sporting disiplines taking part in absolutely pointless sports. We wont have to follow particular atheletes or countries, we wont have to get excited about watching nail biting endings. All we would have to do is sit in front of the television and simply watch.

Seriously though, without competition and fire in the belly to succeed any sport is pointless. Even Primary School sports now have winners and losers in their sports day. Someone, please, at the RFL wake up and make this wonderful game a game worth watching.