Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:41 pm  

Blue Sock wrote:

RL doesn't seem to be in it's greatest state at the moment. In 1895 we broke away from Union to form what is now known as Rugby League. Maybe now it's time to break away again with Rugby League Version 1.2 BETA.

The Matt slapping Danny thing is priceless. People come up with some right shee-iiiite (as Liam Gallagher would put it) sometimes. Good for a laugh, not much else.

Some people come out with some right tripe. A breakaway league I am up for that is anyone else in?

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:43 pm  

breakaway league with who? the rest of the championship clubs?

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:48 pm  

They can't kick the Crusaders out anyway - they owe the RFL £700,000!! Not that they'll ever get that back anyway. Still, I rest safe in the knowledge that our sacrifice will mean the successful expansion of the game into Wales and the fair City of London.

Won't it?

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:53 pm  

we gave up cos the rfl gave up on us.we will get a pathetic mention tomorrow (cos they have to be seen as pretending to do things fairly and giving everyone a chance) but nothing more.
its a disgrace that money after money is thrown at london and wales and great historic clubs like ourselves are just basically cast aside.lewis and wood are a couple of complete muppets and i shudder at where they are taking our game,they are gonna be the death of some great clubs.

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:08 pm  

littlerich wrote:

They can't kick the Crusaders out anyway - they owe the RFL £700,000!!

the directors who took rl to wrexham are in the process of selling the club and the ground is being transferred to the local college.

There is no way that the RFL will get their money back. If the club goes into admin because it can't pay its loan debts to the RFL - the rfl cound end up paying the rates on the stadium - its a disaster waiting to happen. look on the link on the other thread

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:10 pm  

" Riley even goes on to say the club would feel guilty if 2 teams got kicked out of SL. WTF? We should have been shouting from the roof tops how good our bid is and how good it is compared to some SL team bids and on probably less than a quarter of the income that they have."

First of all, can we have the good manners to refer to him as Mike or Mr Riley.

The amount of work he and his fellow workers put in entitles him to a bit of courtesy

Secondly the club have not given up as the silly title implies.

Mike has said that the best we can hope for NOW is that either Harlequins or Castleford, who he THINKS will be given one year to put their acts in order will fail and we will go up in 2013.

I am quite sure the board on many occassions have explained to the RFL what a good set up we have and what SL means to our club. Indeed our initial application was outstanding and it is no ones fault (except the RFL) that their promises will not be honoured.

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:16 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

" Riley even goes on to say the club would feel guilty if 2 teams got kicked out of SL. WTF? We should have been shouting from the roof tops how good our bid is and how good it is compared to some SL team bids and on probably less than a quarter of the income that they have."

First of all, can we have the good manners to refer to him as Mike or Mr Riley.

The amount of work he and his fellow workers put in entitles him to a bit of courtesy

Secondly the club have not given up as the silly title implies.

Mike has said that the best we can hope for NOW is that either Harlequins or Castleford, who he THINKS will be given one year to put their acts in order will fail and we will go up in 2013.

I am quite sure the board on many occassions have explained to the RFL what a good set up we have and what SL means to our club. Indeed our initial application was outstanding and it is no ones fault (except the RFL) that their promises will not be honoured.

What promises were made ?. I havnt seen anything regarding promises from rfl.

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:18 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

What promises were made ?. I havnt seen anything regarding promises from rfl.

Perhaps promises was the wrong word. personally I feel too piss2d off to argue.

We fulfill the criteria, some SL clubs do not.

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:21 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

Mike has said that the best we can hope for NOW is that either Harlequins or Castleford, who he THINKS will be given one year to put their acts in order will fail and we will go up in 2013.

Heard about this extra year thing somewhere and that is a bit of a kick in the teeth for Fax surely?
"You jumped through all our hoops but we'd much prefer these teams in SL than you, but if we really don't have an option after we've given them extra time then I suppose we'll have to give you 2 years"

Re: Why Did The Club Give Up? : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:52 pm  

There has been a lot of over realism here about this announcement. People not wanting to invest too much hope that we will get in. probably a flaw of fax fans are we are too modest and humble, and perhaps we should be more brazen about our own chances. What chance have we got of those tyrants believing in us if we ourselves do not believe in us with our self-effacing rhetoric?

But our own director coming out and saying this is a real kick in the gnashers. Gutting...and indicative of what fubar this is. Im utterly disillusioned with rugby league