Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:23 am  

chris_smith wrote:

I think this article is pie in the sky but for me Fev did not want to apply for a license to cover this current 3 year period and also haven't spent 6 months of hard graft putting an application together! We were the only team to lose out on the license debacle last year and were deemed worthy to apply and fit for a license. Fev if I remember rightly declined to apply for a license in this period as they stated they weren't ready??? As much as I think this story is a load of c rap the only logical and fair option is for Bradford and Halifax to swap places! Fev declined to apply and surely would need to do the due diligence of having a license review and the paper work done?? Not sure they reach all the criteria either on avg attendances, ground etc?? Yet more drivel to keep RL in the news for the wrong reasons I reckon.

I agree, it's right that Halifax should be the standby team for this period, being the only one that applied.

I personally think that an elevation to SL at this moment would ruin Fev, we are building for 2015, not 2013.

That said, if Faisal has got a team of backers and the RFL come knocking, I won't argue with them.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:53 am  

chris_smith wrote: I think this article is pie in the sky but for me Fev did not want to apply for a license to cover this current 3 year period and also haven't spent 6 months of hard graft putting an application together! We were the only team to lose out on the license debacle last year and were deemed worthy to apply and fit for a license. Fev if I remember rightly declined to apply for a license in this period as they stated they weren't ready??? As much as I think this story is a load of c rap the only logical and fair option is for Bradford and Halifax to swap places! Fev declined to apply and surely would need to do the due diligence of having a license review and the paper work done?? Not sure they reach all the criteria either on avg attendances, ground etc?? Yet more drivel to keep RL in the news for the wrong reasons I reckon. You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review

chris_smith wrote: I think this article is pie in the sky but for me Fev did not want to apply for a license to cover this current 3 year period and also haven't spent 6 months of hard graft putting an application together! We were the only team to lose out on the license debacle last year and were deemed worthy to apply and fit for a license. Fev if I remember rightly declined to apply for a license in this period as they stated they weren't ready??? As much as I think this story is a load of c rap the only logical and fair option is for Bradford and Halifax to swap places! Fev declined to apply and surely would need to do the due diligence of having a license review and the paper work done?? Not sure they reach all the criteria either on avg attendances, ground etc?? Yet more drivel to keep RL in the news for the wrong reasons I reckon. You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:01 pm  

fevfan76 wrote: You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review Silly Silly Man, You havnt applied for a Franchise licence for 2012-2015, You havnt ticked the boxes for stadium, Average crowds etc yet just becuase in the first year of the 3 year licence you have ticked one box you think its right you should go in, Get a hold of yourself Man. If this was the case i can certainly see Legal implications that you were just invited it. If anyone was to go in within this license period then it should be Halifax due to meeting all criterea for this license period, If however they want it done properly then it should be decided by Promotion and relegation perhaps for next year only, reducing the SL by one place and let everyone have one season to do the business within our Salary cap and within the rules, Provided this was done, then may the best team win.

fevfan76 wrote: You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review Silly Silly Man, You havnt applied for a Franchise licence for 2012-2015, You havnt ticked the boxes for stadium, Average crowds etc yet just becuase in the first year of the 3 year licence you have ticked one box you think its right you should go in, Get a hold of yourself Man. If this was the case i can certainly see Legal implications that you were just invited it. If anyone was to go in within this license period then it should be Halifax due to meeting all criterea for this license period, If however they want it done properly then it should be decided by Promotion and relegation perhaps for next year only, reducing the SL by one place and let everyone have one season to do the business within our Salary cap and within the rules, Provided this was done, then may the best team win.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:04 pm  

fevfan76 wrote: You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review I accept Fev, Leigh or us but Sheffield? they can't guarantee where they will play their games. They shifted us to Dull Valley on a Friday evening with no consideration for their or our fans. The previous Northern rail game attracted 276 supporters.

fevfan76 wrote: You right Fev haven't spent 6 months getting an application together the have spent much longer. If Fax only spent 6 months then its probably part of the reason they were denied. Its quite a while since those applications from Fax and Widnes first went In and Fev have been building ever since and have had a few meeting with the RL and updates about their status. Pretty naive to say fev haven't spent 6 months hard graft and that checks need to be done etc. The RL know exactly were we are (http://featherstonerovers.net/article.php?id=7943). We have moved on a lot and are now awaiting approval from the council for our ground development plans. This was one of the main reasons for not applying when fax did. Fax have one advantage over fev and one only - thats the ground. The fact is SL want teams that can compete and currently theres only one team in the Championship that could do and its not fax. I think there will be shift from off field being more important.. My opinion i that they will keep Bradford in it, But if not then it should be one of Fev Leigh or sheffield The teams who meet the on field criteria since the last Review I accept Fev, Leigh or us but Sheffield? they can't guarantee where they will play their games. They shifted us to Dull Valley on a Friday evening with no consideration for their or our fans. The previous Northern rail game attracted 276 supporters.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:10 pm  

lol your the silly man. Batley could have applied for a license, it didn't mean they met the criteria. Don't think just because you applied you ticked every box. You definitely didn't. You applied for a license for the start of the franchise period for 3 years. You were denied game over. Doesn't mean you were on reserve just incase a team drops out.

Fev chose to tick more boxes and put a better application together

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:12 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

:MOTOR:
I accept Fev, Leigh or us but Sheffield?

To be honest it was a bit tongue in cheek as they have actually met the on field criteria this time round for a license

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:17 pm  

fevfan76 wrote:

lol your the silly man. Batley could have applied for a license, it didn't mean they met the criteria. Don't think just because you applied you ticked every box. You definitely didn't. You applied for a license for the start of the franchise period for 3 years. You were denied game over. Doesn't mean you were on reserve just incase a team drops out.

Watch the announcement on you tube when the licenses were awarded , Nigel Wood confirmed that 2 Championship teams applied for a license and only Halifax were good enough to be thrown in the Mix and met the criterea, Barrows was not up to scratch. YES THATS RIGHT HALIFAX MET THE CRITERIA/b], He also went onto state that the RFL had the right to revoke anyones license and replace them with another team, Basically this was to appease fans due to the Wakefield and Castleford ground issue, Go and watch it as it is firmly inbedded in my memory, when asked why fax were not in and wakey were it was said that the financial forecasts were speculative, WE TICKED EVERY BOX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really do need to go and have a look you bitter man.

The minimum criteria for a Championship club to be awarded a Super League licence are:

a. Club has reached a Championship Final or won the Northern Rail Cup in 2009 or 2010. [b]TICK Do you remember this one ?. Drop goal or something i remember.
b. Club has a stadium with an operational capacity of 10,000. TICK not one that isnt even assembled yet
c. Club has turnover of at least £1,000,000 in financial year ending 2009 or 2010 (turnover of charitable Foundation can be included in this figure). TICK
d. Club has an average attendance of at least 2500 in 2009 or 2010. TICK Batley brought 3000 to the final game of the season

Oh look, dont let the facts get in the way though.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:21 pm  

As Harry Hill would say,
I like FevFan76,
I like faxhali,
So how do I decide,
FIIIIGHT.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:57 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

He also went onto state that the RFL had the right to revoke anyones license and replace them with another team

Doesn't say which team or a failed bidder etc

Yeah I vaguely remember the drop goal (seems such a long time ago, we won plenty since then), I think came after the interruption of Fax fans trying to burn the stand down

Bitter????

Bitter about what, absolutely nothing to be bitter about. Neither of us are in super league, RL will most likely keep Bradford in. Far better to be a Fev fan at the moment than any other team outside of SL so why bitter.

Re: Bradford v Fev v Fax : Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:08 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

They shifted us to Dull Valley on a Friday evening with no consideration for their or our fans.

Shifted ?

What do you mean - "shifted" ?

My understanding of the word "shifted" is that it was somewhere and now it's somewhere else.

Where else was it ever going to be ?