The meeting last night which was far better attended than expected with reps` of Super League and other Championship clubs in attendance have now actually "formed a group" who will name themselves and facilitate a move forward.
The meeting was origionally called as fans from mostly our club but other Championship Clubs as well were contacting the Trust to ask what we intended to do about the failed bid and the RFL in general.
The fans that were contacting us were wanting to vent their anger at the RFL some were considering a variety of ideas and were talking of showing their displeasure at the RFL by eg sitting on pitches etc` and so the Trust decided to have the meeting to organise a group that would ensure that all protests would be done in such a manner as not to bring the Club into disrepute.This was made quite clear at the meeting and everyone there was in full agreement we had noone makeing any suggestions that were OTT in fact quite the opposite . The fans were a credit to their Club as their concerns were not just about our lack of geting the Bid but a concern around other clubs as well. They even had concerns over the pulling of funding of our scholership last year which means forcing our youngsters to go to such as Bradford.
All these issues are undermining Championship clubs so they never will be able to compete in any way with Clubs that are in Super League when the next Franchises are handed out.
Everyone at the meeting was there last night in a totally unselfish way they were there because they care about Rugby League and to tell you the truth I was very proud of the way they spoke and the ideas put forward.
I was also more than pleased to see Pete (Starbug ) there from Leigh as I respect his opinions more than anyone I know regarding our game and his contribution to the meeting was fantastic, thank you Steve.
We will hear more of plans as time goes on but I can assure everyone that at the meeting last night there was noone there wanting to put our Club in a "bad light" in fact as I fully expected quite the opposite .They just want a fair deal for all clubs in all leagues nothing more nothing less they were a credit to their respective clubs