: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:40 pm  

The Kevster! wrote:

The way things are going I'm going to be pretty much done with rugby league soon. The way the game has been run is a disgrace. Bias and favouritism runs rampant in the sport and unless you are in SL or your face fits outside of SL the RFL have no intention of doing you any favours.

As soon as they brought in franchises and did away with promotion and relegation they ripped the heart out of the game. People are fast losing interest (and not just because of Leigh's form) but because of the way the game is run.

The have's continue to get more and everyone else will just rot.

Feel exactly the same - the game is a joke.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:45 pm  

The UK borders agency do not have to give a reason why a visa has been refused do they, well not 'publicly' at least.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:54 pm  

fighting relegation this year me thinks,im not surprised at all

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:34 pm  

Very disappointed but was always inevitable I think.

"Continuing efforts are being made to identify players of sufficient quality, and bring them to the club to fill the void left by Joe’s absence, and strengthen the team to help them attain a good play off position, and hopefully a Grand Final appearance."

Surely that's for next season?

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:45 pm  

Hold non a minute. Let me get this stright. Paul Rowley is given information from what must have been a credible source that his visa is sorted and Paul gave a statement or interview to a news paper that he is pencilled in for the Whitehaven game. The club must have spoken to Paul before he did this so the club must have been given this information. You dont get clearence then dont get clearence, unless he has knocked out the govenor. The RFL have got nothing to do with this. We have been told repeatedly by the club that they have done everything they can and have backed us. Is this information wrong also? Is this the reasdon the club said nothing about the article in the Reporter? There is something that stinks and the smell is again coming from our own door. Honesty is the only thing that can stop me from also washing my hands of this club now. I have called for fans not to walk away from the club because of the results but those and the thought that there is really, really a group of people running ( or not ) the club that have no consideration for its fans turns my stomach. In fact this news has made me well and truly p1$$ed off.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:47 pm  

Better take my boots to 'Haven.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:47 pm  

I wish I'd kept a copy of the email I sent through the official site tonight. Put it this way, i never thought I would feel this way about the club, or rather the people allegedly running it

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:04 pm  

the club 'can appeal' but dependeds on 'what grounds' he's been denied i guess. Do the UK Borders Agency not like M62 'corridor' clubs either. Celtic's Aussies got 'delayed' but eventually got allowed in. Maybe Joe Williams 'dropped some litter' in a car park in Newcastle (AUS)

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:11 pm  

Maybe they saw the reports of him fighting and not realising he was boxing

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:16 pm  

Maybe we didn't advertise the position locally for 2 weeks, before bringing someone from outside the EU in.