Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:32 pm  

Should be Featherstone if life was fair, ......I have chosen the Bulls. It will be the Bulls.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:49 pm  

Donnyman wrote:

No mate not at all. He was ready to leave for the RLIF when they came a calling. The Championship clubs were happy to have them as they are happy to have Ottawa and Toulouse.

if you want a proper French derby then relegate Catalans and get the clubs to play French players.

He didn't leave until 2018 by which time TWP had already been part of the "Eurpean" pyramid, with Rimmer followin on from the big fella.
It certainly seems that Wood was the "matchmaker" and the person primarily responsible for getting TWP into the game over here.
Happy to be proved wrong, my grey matter is getting more grey by the day.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:56 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

He didn't leave until 2018 by which time TWP had already been part of the "Eurpean" pyramid, with Rimmer followin on from the big fella.
It certainly seems that Wood was the "matchmaker" and the person primarily responsible for getting TWP into the game over here.
Happy to be proved wrong, my grey matter is getting more grey by the day.

I don't need to "prove you wrong" on anything, don't make every discussion a fight. All I am saying is Wood was heading for the RLIF and he just waved TWP through and the Championship clubs were happy with that. Superleague as a separate organisation left them all to it, as they are now doing with Ottawa who are already backsliding on their commitment to use Canadian players.

I'd be interested to know how many actual French players would walk on the pitch for the start of the first French Superleague derby between Les Catalans and Toulouse that you advocate??

Give me a number??

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:04 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

I said in my previous post, criteria will be tailored to enhance the credentials of whichever club is most wanted and quite frankly, that stinks the house out.

Really it should be either Fev (as beaten finalists in the last play off) or, London as the relegated club from last season. Anything else would have the look and the smell of some kind of fix.

London have a terrible ground and Featherstone don't do player development they do dual Reg. Seems like it is your choices that stink?

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:10 am  

Pats plastic pitch wrote:

If that’s the case based on all 4 I’d say the front runners are Leigh/Widnes/Toulouse. Fev possibly, do they have an academy/reserves ? Seemed to have heavily relied on DR with Leeds the last few years. Leigh not having an academy could go against them potentially

Toulouse? They are guests of the RFL and Championship?? What would you say to member clubs with SL ambitions if you hoisted Toulouse into Superleague?

Whatever English clubs do or don't have on the player development side they can bring it in. AFAIK going forward reserves are compulsory, NOT academies. Leigh don't have any Reserves but can just create a reserve team. If Keighley could do it.....

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:11 am  

The sooner ''member'' and ''guest'' status's are abolished, the sooner the game can move forward.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:17 am  

Donnyman wrote:

I don't need to "prove you wrong" on anything, don't make every discussion a fight. All I am saying is Wood was heading for the RLIF and he just waved TWP through and the Championship clubs were happy with that. Superleague as a separate organisation left them all to it, as they are now doing with Ottawa who are already backsliding on their commitment to use Canadian players.

I'd be interested to know how many actual French players would walk on the pitch for the start of the first French Superleague derby between Les Catalans and Toulouse that you advocate??

Give me a number??

I would think somewhere between 12 and 20 ?

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:18 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

That would be the right / fair response.
However, this is Rugby League and with certain parties desperate to fit Bradford in to SL, by whatever means, suggests that "fairness and good sense" wont be the deciding factors.
IF a particular club is favoured for whatever reason, the criteria will be "adjusted" to accommodate them ie "success during the SL era" or, "playing in an iconic stadium".

What and where is this 'iconic' stadium that Bradford are regularly connected with?

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:49 am  

The iconic stadium is the hole in the ground in Southern Bradford that is so prohibitively expensive to maintain it would make you go into administration. Mysteriously some wakefield fans in particular think being gifted the obligation to stay in it was an act of great kindness by the RFL.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:26 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

The iconic stadium is the hole in the ground in Southern Bradford that is so prohibitively expensive to maintain it would make you go into administration. Mysteriously some wakefield fans in particular think being gifted the obligation to stay in it was an act of great kindness by the RFL.

At the time, so did the Bulls board and many of their fans, so did the Bulls fans.
Peppercorn rent to commercial rent was never going to work and those that brokered the deal needed their bumps testing.

Most Trinity fans, at the time, said that it would be better to go into admin, just as our club had but, some seemed to know better.

It was the story about protecting "an iconic stadium" that really irked.

Once rammed with 102,000 fans but, never "iconic"