I wonder if the UKBA will be checking to see if the same number of overseas players leave the country as came into it.

I bet they place coils of razor wire and machine gun nests on the Severn Bridge.

Oops!Wrong thread.Sorry.

Well now this season is ' officially ' over , the RFL can tidy up a few things

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..off into the sunset he goes, with the money from the sale of the lease happily locked safely away...and probably alot of the SKY money too as they didn't seem to have many highly paid players. Nice one Leighton

I thought the last paragraph summed up the stupidity of sooooperdooooper league!

England to win FA until this kind of thing stops.

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Doesn't look good at all. I really do feel sorry for the fans.

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Doesn't look good at all. I really do feel sorry for the fans.

Barely out of nappies and they are spreading the game to the whole of Wales. Thats an incredible achievement and more than any of the flatcappers clubs have ever done.

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Don't lie

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Don't lie

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Well, that's just dandy. Could end up with a result for the naysayers.

Quote ="Starbug"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport Despite what many of you think of me , this gives me no pleasure whatsoever '" Well, that's just dandy. Could end up with a result for the naysayers.

If they relocate to Wrexham, there's one regular speccie here!

31 miles from Widnes.

Why bugger about?

Widnes already have the North Wales posse on board.

Exactly..
Well, not quite but there's zero point in them being there, couple of on the road games, yes, interesting...Could get a couple of decent crowds against widnes/warry/saints etc needs to stay in south wales at all costs

less than 50 frm Leigh too.

Hardly expansion.

I was all in favour, but the RFL have to admit it has failed as an experiment, as Paris did.

When will they learn, you have to have a market to award a franchise to an area, no other franchised business awards a franchise in the hope the market will be there!

Tick tock , tick tock

Any need to drag this up? Could you not have summed it up with a post in the thread already created?

I am glad you're rejoicing and enjoying the demise or near demise of a rugby league club though.

The demise of others was deemed necessary by some.

The RFL is a joke, split the game, split the fans and needs moving on before they do more damage.

Good luck CC

I wouldn't normally myself, but will make an excetion this time ..... and in the words of rizzo, "with relish"

s'alreet cos you lot wont be coming up any decade soon.

i can see this getting locked lol

I have brought this thread back not to gloat , that serves no positive purpose , but quite simply to remind everybody what happens when people [ in this case the RFL try to ' force things to happen which are just not viable , the whole Celtic project has been a disaster waiting to happen from day one , in future any such expansion should be set up paid for and run by the RFL , but at realistic levels , and most importantly with complete transparency , only then will we ever see long term growth at pro/semi pro level

where on earth does it say i wish we would ? i've never held any pretentions that we ever will , but have a look at the definition of franchise , one day it may all be taken away from any SL team and transported to god knows where

funnily enough though, thats what they did with crusaders isn't it ?

And no .... still not having any feelings of sympathy for them at all ..... and what a shame you didn't get hardaker as well eh ? Did you have a spot of bother matching the 100k leeds paid ... ne'er mind, theres a couple more coming through for us that'lll make us a bit more money

This is embarrassing, you should be ashamed.

Who ?