Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:38 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

We'll walk an "A" next time round.

But will 2011, 2012 and 2013 be the seasons we will be judged on or 2012, 2013 and 2014? If as people are suggesting it is the former then we may not; if it is the latter then I'm dead sure we will.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:00 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

But that's the point, isn't it? What defines a Grade A club from the rest is that they don't have to rely upon occasional boosts from derby matches. They have the crowds in the bag automatically. Wigan and Leeds would get a minimum 10,000 every season without even trying. Saints most definitely would not. If we need to wait for our derby matches to get past the magical number then we aint a Grade A club, are we?

That's not the point. The point is it is average attendances over the last three years that are taken, if you take an average attendance when not everyone has played everyone else you are not treating everyone equally.

One of the criteria is being in the top 8 the last three years - do you think they look at who was in the top 8 when the bids were submitted as take that for this year, as that is essentially what you were saying.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:01 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

We haven't got a fully functioning home ground, "B" grade is what I would have expected.

We'll walk an "A" next time round.

Agreed.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:10 pm  

Who cares? A or B we're still in so what are you bothered about?

If it was B and there were 14 clubs with an A I'd be worried.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:12 pm  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote:

That's not the point. The point is it is average attendances over the last three years that are taken, if you take an average attendance when not everyone has played everyone else you are not treating everyone equally.

Yes you are. All you need to do is make sure everyone has played the same number of games.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:14 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Yes you are. All you need to do is make sure everyone has played the same number of games.

That's a bit daft.

Say we fell just under a threshold but hadn't played Wigan at home, but Wigan were just above it having played us at the DW.

Would it be fair for them to be graded higher on attendances?

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:17 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

Would it be fair for them to be graded higher on attendances?

Would it matter? If we were worthy of a Grade A then we would be getting at least 10,000 per season average anyway, like Wigan and Leeds do regardless of who they play. The idea isn't to be 'fair'. It is to be accurate. If a club has to rely on certain matches to increase their attendance then they aren't a Grade A club are they? They're a Grade B club. Like us!

PS: I don't care whether we are Grade A or Grade B, just so long as we aren't Grade C. That's a bit of a wobbly place to be imo.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:20 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Yes you are. All you need to do is make sure everyone has played the same number of games.

Not everyone had when the bids were submitted. Did they take the top 8 when the bids were submitted as well using your "logic"?

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:22 pm  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote:

Not everyone had when the bids were submitted. Did they take the top 8 when the bids were submitted as well using your "logic"?

Teams aren't required to get into the top 8 in every season though are they?

Besides, you haven't answered the question. For the 2014 round of licences, will 2011 be taken into consideration do you think, even though it is outside the next licence period? Or will 2012, 2013 and 2014 be the three seasons taken into consideration?

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:32 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Teams aren't required to get into the top 8 in every season though are they?

What's that got to do with it? It's still a criteria. So are you using the same logic and saying the top 8 criteria was at some arbitrary point this season when not everyone had played everyone else home and away?

SaintsFan wrote:

Besides, you haven't answered the question. For the 2014 round of licences, will 2011 be taken into consideration do you think, even though it is outside the next licence period? Or will 2012, 2013 and 2014 be the three seasons taken into consideration?

You've haven't asked me a question before so it was difficult to answer - For some things if they follow the same practice as the last two license rounds yes, because of the simple fact the bids will be submitted early in the third year of the next license period.