news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 149935.stm So it's now official. Step in Mr Lewis & Co

news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 149935.stm So it's now official. Step in Mr Lewis & Co

two expansion clubs (the original one in Blackpool - well they are as far away from the 'heartland as are WREXHAM (we've been in SL 3 years and had three name changes) Crusaders) doing this in a week yet only one has a good chance of being 'saved' by intervention of the RFL. we should all be worried very worried.



ohh and i'm back with my original moniker thank you mr Keegan

I'd have gone for "Step down Mr Lewis & Co"



Time to go?

Well maybe the RFL could ask Sky would it be ok if the game returned to P & R then maybe the 6 point deduction would mean something.



They won't and although I hope I am wrong this is probably their last season.



I think whoever loses their franchise at the end of this season will be in big trouble.



Wonder why crowds have gone down since franchising was introduced.

Bit of a coincidence that the administrators, O'Hara, are based in Leeds?!?!? Obviously the RFL will now step in and guarantee contracts for next season to keep the club going. They will get a 9 point deduction (no punishment when you can't be relegated) and carry on as before with small home crowds, very little away support and relying on overseas players.

When will the RFL actually just let a club that cannot survive just go to the wall? Oh - they did last week with Blackpool. But of course Blackpool aren't super league so that's OK. Let their players have months of uncertainty trying to find new clubs so they can pay mortgages and put food on the table while the aussies in Wrexham are guaranteed their wages and the RFL will then pay for them to fly home after their cash and grab raid on British rugby.

And in there lies the problem because the championship clubs are part time they are discriminated against because they have other sources of income, its a bigger joke than usual we are farther away from Australia (playing wise) than we ever were yet the powers that be persist in stupid stunts, if Blackpool are not worth saving then no club should be.

The end of Dickie and the fat controller will be the opening weekend of SL

time the people at the top i e lewis and co bow there head in shame and go before we have no game to support they are a joke and a disgrace sod off back to lawn tennis lewis

Pride and honour, key attributes of great leaders. They aint going nowhere whilst they control the trough.

Yes.................

1) Crusaders are in administration. Not the RFL, which makes a profit, but an independent club, who bug9ered it up all by themselves



2) a SL club in Wales is more important than any old other northern club in SL for the growth (read 'future') of our sport



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I hope the RFL step in and fund a Welsh club. I hope they get another franchise. Funnily enough, both would be better for Leigh in the long run. The alternative to growing as a sport is dying on our asses as Union cleans up all the athletes in the junior game and slowly throttles the sport out of existence.