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Would be a loss to the league (and days on the lash) if Barrow went down.

I here they are to go BANG. Sympathy for the fans and thats it.

After Barrow this year i would personally be gutted to see them go, great atmosphere under the stands and they do nice food

Hopefully Barrow will be ok, would feel really bad for the fans if not. But not for Des, the guys a loony who's made the club into a joke for a brief taste of success. Good luck Barrow, Bye Bye Des

Surely it would be York who were reprieved????

Would have thought so considering they were the 'second' relegation place.

Yet another sound move, to increase the numbers and strength of the Championship!

Would be a big shock if that happens, lets hope things can be sorted in Barrow and common sense prevails.

www.loverugbyleague.com/news_631 ... um=twitter the charges dont look good

www.loverugbyleague.com/news_631 ... um=twitter the charges dont look good

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Bl00dy hell, and we joked about the brown envelopes

I was always suspicious of how they could sign SL quality players on Championship wages and SC. Bracek, Rooney, Catic, Thackeray etc etc wouldn't have come cheap AT ALL. Barrow fans were always quick to say if it is true then how come we haven't been charged with breaking the SC.... well looks like its all catching up with Dessie. If they are looking back as far as 2007 wasn't that when they were still in NL2? Or whatever it was called at the time? Makes their winning NL2 and the Championship look very suspicious if they are found to have been purposely breaking the SC for such a long time!

Feel bad for the fans but it's not as if people haven't been questioning this for a while.

They must have been 'Grassed up' with the Salary cap supposedly being a 'live' watch on all the clubs.

No club's fans deserves the trouble this will bring in it's wake.

If under the counter payments have been made then Revenue and Customs will be after the players involved.

Would it not be a touch ironic that Barrow could get relegated by the RFL after all the various off field shenanigans yet may be indirectly replaced by Crusaders who also have a record of off field shenagans yet are currently telling the RFL what division they wish to play in !

Its a bl00dy joke the way the RFL run things and we all (championship clubs)just behave like little lapdogs and beg for crumbs at their table.
The worst thing is, Des has done all those things to try and make the promised land, of the superdooper league and it could end up being their down fall.
Question is how many more will fall by the wayside in the same quest.
Truth is the super dooper fan dangle league only want certain teams and they aren't Barrow, Halifax, or us.
We have to learn to live with this.
Next time the licenses are up for renewal there will be a set in stone set of rules that will stop any unwanted teams applying I would imagine.

I actually think it's bugger all to do with Super League and everything to do with Des' ego trip.

was walking back to the leigh end after another barrow try with the biggest grin on his face you've ever seen.

I find it difficult to blame the rfl for the mess barrow find themselves in,i would have no sympathy for us either if it was to happen again.

All Barrow have done is to show the RFL what a ludicrous salary cap £400K is for any club with ambitions. The RFL are going to punish Barrow for being ambitious. The RFL are just keeping ambitious clubs under the thumb and if you dare break these Communist rules then you are punished even further. Stuff the RFL and stuff Super League.

Barrow's troubles and offences are light years worse than ours J C.

All clubs know the rules though yet still insist on trying to flout them, what's the old saying Cheats never prosper?

The contract system and agents asking phone number money for their players and the clubs for paying them in the first place is the root of the problem.

Whatever the rights and wrongs and the its 'his fault' is pretty irrelevent in the broad puicture of it all.
Lets hope the people of Barrow have a semi pro RL club to follow next year.
As those at Blackpool Panthers found out, sometimes clubs do go out of the game for ever.

i don't think so jenky.des will move on,barrow will take there punishment and then move on.

i know that fred and i'm sure theres nothing round the corner waiting for us, but the fact remains,i can have little if any sympathy for any club that breaks the rules.

Des johnson has walked into rugby league and stuck two fingers up at everyone involved in rl,not just the establishment.He and the club will get what they deserve.