The old Cumbria thing again.

Do these people not realise that the people in Cumbria are spread over a bazillion miles and that all of the built up areas are relatively small. No bigs tes will ever come from Cumbria.

Whilst I fully expect Widnes to be given the license, it's nonesense to say that Cumbria will never have a 'big' team. Historically, Barrow have been a very big team - particularly in the 30's and 50's. The Barrow team of the 50's supplied the backbone of the team that won the ashes. Although a long was off at present, there's no reason why that couldn't happen again.

Barrow on it's own is a larger place than 'big team' Castleford - and also the town of Widnes and Leigh. Barrow doesn't have any competiton from other RL clubs either. And I'm 100% confident that given the chance of a SL place, we could easily surpass the attendances of 'big teams' Harlequins, Crusaders and Salford.

As I say, Widnes will get the nod next week, but in 3 years time ....

I think if you look on wiki the total population of the Halton Borough area is 130,000, which is more than Barrow.About 60,000 live in Widnes, and we are also looking to attract from the wirral area.We have a decent catchment area if market correctly.Barrow is similar in size to Widnes and your catchment area is the villages in the lakedistrict.

Barrow has not got a stadium fit for top tier RL as unfortunately that is one of the main criteria these days and the cost of upgrading the one they have would be too much, the best thing they could hope for would be a joint enterprise between the Council, private enterprise and the football club, but in todays financial climate thats a non starter.

Barrow are if anything about fourth or fifth in line for a license. Their ground would have seen them turned away under the old system let alone the new one. Strong brown enveloped squad does not make a super league license.