Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:03 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

It always has been. The clubs with the best business plans and most professional people on the board are usually the most successful. The two come hand in hand. What licensing has done is focus a lot of clubs to strengthen their off field activities to further benefit the on field side.
To think professional sport is only what you see on the pitch is naive to say the least.

The most bizzare thing though is that we introduced a salary cap to help prevent clubs from over-extending themselves through investment in players. Now we have nearly every club over extending themselves in a race to have the most administrators; best community structures etc to score points on a different league table.

I fail to see how bankrupting clubs in a race against each other is in anyway better than it was when the league table that counted was settled on the pitch - and not off it?

Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:50 pm  

GET EM ON SIDE REF wrote:

for me it should be 2 divisions with 2 up and 2 down the clubs should be semi pro because the game can not support full time pros and before anybody calls me an idiot the evidence is there for all of us to see
SL clubs are now recording record losers all Barr 2-3 clubs are leaking money it is only a matter of time before we start to lose RL clubs forever and not just the National league teams, unless we address the situation
RL is not a national sport it never will be RU is football is it is time for folk to wake up and smell the coffee we are a little regional sport with a bloody good product before we go throwing money away in South Wales the North East South or bloody France, We should be making sure we do not lose the Dewsbury’s Keighley’s Wakefield’s and Widnes etc
If I was a Widnes fan I would be so Pd off with the whole situation it is a bloody disgrace ref the Crusaders some body at RL/SL HQ should be sacked for this bloody disaster RL in South Wales was always and always will be a dead duck as it will be at Pro level in London
So where will the lunatics try next Leicester, Bristol, and Birmingham Etc

I am a widnes fan mate and have been peed off.But now i give up with the rfl totally.I have lived down south with the army and they like union and football only.Now i roll my sleeves up and try and enjoy my rugby in the championship.I know a few widnes fans who not go the games, because not in superleague.If rfl smell the coffee we would double our attendances, cos of the better standard of rugby and more away fans.Anyway i am very upset with celtic moving to wrexham which is 30 miles from widnes.Call that expansion?People near their such as chester have supported widnes.Well i disgusted as celtics attendances will be boosted by away fans now and free tickets.I hope some of the heartland clubs get together and boycott going.But i doubt many will as they like their clubs.Nothing surprises me with the rfl as the kicked us out for the catalans when we came 2nd bottom of the league.Next time around they could drop salford or yourselves which i hope not as you are good fans.I am just saying as the rfl are mindless.Anyway goodluck for the season and i admit miss superleague.

Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:53 pm  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I couldn't see the French League having Wakefield in it. Surely the best way to 'expand' the game is to build from the heartland outwards such as South Yorkshire, Midlands etc (and the same going North). Why we chose 2 clubs in different countries which are miles away from anywhere is beyhond me. That may help French and Welsh rugby but doesn't do much for the English game.

I agree we need to be improving english not french and welsh.The game does not have big money so we need expand gradual if we do.

Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:15 am  

Soldierboy wrote:

Nothing surprises me with the rfl as the kicked us out for the catalans when we came 2nd bottom of the league.

Everyone knew the rules for that season - the bottom two would be relegated for the team from NL1 (if they met the criteria) and the Catalans. Widnes weren't kicked out.

Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:25 am  

t-r-i-n-i-t-y wrote:

Everyone knew the rules for that season - the bottom two would be relegated for the team from NL1 (if they met the criteria) and the Catalans. Widnes weren't kicked out.

Still made up at the beginning of the season.Catalans did not make their way up the leagues like we would have too.So if widnes was in gloucester with same fan base then we would go in automatically.Come on it a joke.I sure you be happy if say you have one bad season and french side toulouse took your place?It such a joke their is no promotion and relegation.If their was then celtic be in the championship now.My point is the rfl make rules up anytime.My view their should always be promotion and relegation to make fair for all teams.

Re: Martin signed for Crusaders : Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:07 pm  

Soldierboy wrote:

My view their should always be promotion and relegation to make fair for all teams.

And to give teams something to aim for.