This sounds like good plan although it has 1 small hitch any club taking the RFL to court cannot play in any if its comp's.
IF you take the RFL to court then you as a club need to find another sport to play.
This was one of the main reasons Wigan didnt kick up more of a stink the other year when they got a major slapping over the salary cap.
THe RFL have the clubs more over a barrel then you seem to think.

Wigan didn't kick up a stink because they were guilty

the RFL and Wigan shut up and did a deal on the sly to stop Cas kicking up a fuss and suing both the RFL & Wigan for everything they had on the other hand.

You could take the RFL to court and yes you would probably win..............BUT lets say it takes 12/18 months to win that would 1/2 season where you cannot play RL AT ALL.
Now have a little think about it.
How much of the club would be left to play in RL after you stop trading for 1 season if not 2.
Oh and BTW Wigan would have correctly argued that the Salary Cap is illegal by European Law just as you would be argueing that the franchises are illegal.
Its a gamble by the RFL that no club has the balls to do it.
For reasons I have mentioned IMHO its a gamble they are always going to win.

is there a link you can put on here to this legal document you appear to have seen?. if so i can get it looked at legally

I hope we are not slected and wil not go down.

You're spellings shocking

Shouldn't that say 'You're Spelling is shocking'

Why should it say "you are spelling is shocking"?

Oh hello are you talking to me again now.


But indeed you are correct it should read 'Your spelling is shocking'

Of course one club and it's legal team could force exactly that if they could prove the actions of the RFL and the other 13 clubs to ne acting illegally - both restricting that piddling clubs right to trade and it's employees the right to work.

Let's get this straight, despite what you seem to think the RFL/SL is nothing in the eyes of the law. It's rules and regulations are nothing but a gentlemans agreement n a par with the rules and regs of a local darts league - nothing more If you think otherwise and you clearly do then I fear for you.

A major slapping as you put it is hardly the same as a Ltd company being forced to go bust. Had Wigan been relegated due to the loss of points do you honestly think they would have accepted demotion and 4 years in the wilderness at best or going out of business completely at worse - come off it.

So where have you got that from - oh I know you just made it up. If all three clubs get grounds and thus tick all the criteria then by the games own laws they cannot be relegated. No one from the RFL/SL has said that a club will definitely be promoted, they have said they will be looking at the possibility of promoting and relegating a club - look at the word possibility.

There is no possibility if the clubs hit there targets by 2012, certainly not according to the franchise rules.

Absolute rubbish. For a start we are all I assume talking about the three clubs getting there grounds. I certainly accept that if Trinity don't get the ground we are down thouh even then you could still challenge it. What we are talking about here is the idea that some have that even if all three clubs get a ground one will still bite the dust. It's this last bit that is in question and which is easily challenged.

If a club or company which is what they actually are meets all there requirements needed to trade in SL but is still culled to allow another company in then this is undoubtedly a restriction on their ability to trade and an unfair one in the eyes of the REAL law.

Are you seriously suggesting that the removal of a guaranteed near one million pounds a year from SKY alone won't have a catastrophic effect on the business - one that will almost certainly lead to bankruptcy for the club and full scale redundancies.

I can assure you it will and any BOD will be obliged to fight this decision on behalf of the shareholders. RL is not a magical world where the rules of real life don't exist, a shareholder or an employee of Wakefield, Cas or Salford has exactly the same rights as if the company in question was Tesco or Rolls Royce.

The fact is that the RFL/SL can set up any rules it likes, but it has no power at all to enforce them - only a court can do that.

Read my other post.
The RFL have all of us over a barrel.

It should, but it matters not

Except, of course, that the club in question has to agree to certain conditions in order to play in any competition. Before we start getting all high and mighty about real law, can I just remind you that despite all equality laws passed prior to the official recognition of professionalism in Rugby Union, the Rugby Football Union could force clubs under their jurisdiction not to play on RL grounds, not to play RL teams, not to play ex-RL players, not to employ people who had been involved with RL in any way.

i just love all the legak expertise on here

I was on an iphone on a bus

Was this when they have been ripping up half the roads?

Ah yes the ripping up of the roads that looks set to be complete ahead of schedule and under budget, and will drastically increase the capacity of the junction, apparently.

That's a hell of a balancing act. Watch out for low bridges.

I was laughing along with the comment, not at your spelling mate.

The trick is to balance the iPhone on its long side. You've no chance trying to balance on the short end

IS my view on the situation a sensible one tb?
No one seems to want to comment on it.