: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:42 pm  

If that had been us some would have been calling for Allan Rowley to be publically beheaded and Paul to hung drawn and quartered, with the entire board of directors burnt at the stake (not that any would burn)

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:49 pm  

Saley2 wrote:

got to agree there matt

the shay is above average but no where close to the facility the LSV is

Although from a fans side the LSV isnt home yet and we have had teething issues from an RFL prospective its first class and ticks every box in connection to stadia

awesome you have a good stadium that has not even 2,000 people in it every week. we are the second best supported club in the league at the minute behind widnes. if we win the grand final for the next 3 years are the RFL still going to ignore us.

i can imagine the uprore if gateshead and toulouse are the next teams cause widnes and halifax will have something to say about that.

if we are going on good stadiums though ours will be completed and will be better than cas, wakey, saints, celtic, salford. so we have to kick them out if we are going to go purely on stadium.

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:08 pm  

I respect Halifax as a club but the RFL wont promote them simply because of the current number of Yorkshire clubs in Super League.

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:10 pm  

faxtastic wrote:

awesome you have a good stadium that has not even 2,000 people in it every week. we are the second best supported club in the league at the minute behind widnes. if we win the grand final for the next 3 years are the RFL still going to ignore us.

i can imagine the uprore if gateshead and toulouse are the next teams cause widnes and halifax will have something to say about that.

if we are going on good stadiums though ours will be completed and will be better than cas, wakey, saints, celtic, salford. so we have to kick them out if we are going to go purely on stadium.

But it isn'r purely on that! it's all about geographical location and unfortunatley neither of us fit that

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:13 pm  

agreed, our crowds are crap. We have a new ground yes, but are worst team for about 15 years. Fax are top of the table, playing great rugby, and your average will be 'boosted by 2 Widnes home games'.

Fax's last 3 home crowds: 2, 022 + 2,002 + 2,184
Leigh's last 3 home crowds 2,307, 2.177 + 1,727

point taken, but both should be getting bigger crowds, albeit for different reasons. Widnes's crowds puts us all to shame.

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:15 pm  

leytherjay wrote:

Theres not a gaurentee that Fax will win the northern rail cup or appear in the grand final this season or next.............those are the rules and unless they do one of these 2 things they wont get in when the next franchise happens........that goes for the rest of us also.

i know there is no guarentee we will get to the northern rail cup final or win it or the league grand final but i think with the squad we have got we will get to one of them over the next 2 years.

i dont know why we are complaning anyway even if we win both of them for the next 2 years we wont get in. we will broaden the game out to france a bit more to toulouse and gateshead widnes and leigh will be the others fighting for the place.

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:20 pm  

faxtastic wrote:

i know there is no guarentee we will get to the northern rail cup final or win it or the league grand final but i think with the squad we have got we will get to one of them over the next 2 years.

i dont know why we are complaning anyway even if we win both of them for the next 2 years we wont get in. we will broaden the game out to france a bit more to toulouse and gateshead widnes and leigh will be the others fighting for the place.

sad, but true.
2012) Widnes or Toulouse 2015) Widnes/Toulouse/Ipswich Jets
2018) Widnes/Toulouse/Ipswich Jets/Torquay Pirates

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:34 pm  

I have it on good authority that the Glasgow Gluesniffers are certs for 2015.

Re: MPs call for Halifax rules change : Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:16 pm  

Leyth-lad wrote: just seen this on bbc sport http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 027116.stm Rugby League chiefs are being urged to change their rules to allow Halifax into the Super League next season. RL chiefs.... change their rules? No precedent for that!!

Leyth-lad wrote: just seen this on bbc sport http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 027116.stm Rugby League chiefs are being urged to change their rules to allow Halifax into the Super League next season. RL chiefs.... change their rules? No precedent for that!!

: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:35 pm  

Said it before......Gateshead will be the next franchise team as they will want to expand into the north-east.