You think his organisation didn't

And you can add Featherstone to that list too.

No. Otherwise Wakefield wouldn't still be there.

Your argument is all over the place. I don't disagree that the RFL need to be careful about clubs and administration (and lets face it, with the whole HMRC image rights case hanging over the remaining SL clubs, it could happen again soon!) and letting them stay in the league but equally when you have more than one club in that position then you have to make decision based on financial facts. Andrew Glover didn't send the club into administration (unlike Moss and Roberts) and now the guy has turned the whole things around and got them in profit in just a few months. When KPMG sat down and looked at theirs numbers, including Halifax, then they clearly advised the RFL that Wakefield, despite administration, where financial viable, stable and even less of a risk than Halifax.



Well, they possibly didn't but equally it looks like the RFL are going to be paying to keep Crusaders in SL till the end of the season, so the bill is not going to go down... it will go up!

I never said he did but the RFL is owned by his company and are scared to death of losing their funding.

The penalty for going into adminstration shouldn't just be a points deduction, especially when another club is knocking on the door having done what has been asked of it. I sound like a baby - but i'll say it anyway. It's just not fair.

Since when did they award licenses based on who has the best stadiums?

From the outside the RFL do look like a complete bunch of clowns. Richard Lewis saw expansion as his legacy to RL - noble aims, but he has proved he got it wrong and has shown no evidence that he can bring genuine expansion to the game. Time to move on for him I would say. Licencing should be a bedrock, a solid set of criteria that clubs have to match. Expansion should have a long term, sustainable plan. Neither exist at the moment. He could have replaced Wakefield with Halifax and sent out a serious message to clubs that they had a real danger of losing a licence. The message now is, just muddle along as you've always done, don't worry about it. Lewis should go and go now before he does real long term damage to our game. The Crusaders fiasco has happened on his watch and is a result of his actions. He has to carry the can.

The assessment criteria was no insolvency events between 2008 and 2010. Wakefield had none in that time period.

To the Wakefield fans - congratulations. Never nice to see a club struggling and you must be delighted.



To the Crusaders fans - you must be gutted. I wonder how much you were persuaded to do this by the RFL.



To my own club Halifax. Why are we one bit surprised by this? The first rule of the RFL these days is to ignore the first rule. Past decisions have no bearing on future ones. The goalposts have been moved so many times nobody knows where they are. Sometimes I look at the RFL and it seems more like the WWE!!



To the Directors at Halifax. Keep up the great work and you never know, one day out time may come.

Yep, you do!