Widnes awarded super league licence as announced on sky sports news 11.30 am Halifax met criteriier and can compete with other clubs in July .Barrow failed to comply

Sorry for spelling mistake [criteria it must be a combination of old age and dithering fingers :

no surprise there then.....

now we just wait for the officail scrapping of wakeys franchise

I don't want them to go, its 4 points we can usually count on

It's a sad day when these things happen, but to be honest you'd bet your mortgage on it being Wakey.

I feel sorry for halifax as they have met the criteria but will not bet let in. There is no way they will let Crusaders go, the welsh and french experiments are safe bets for a few years yet

Reads like there being 2 clubs entering SL if Halifax are to compete with other clubs in July.

Or will the 'other clubs' include SL clubs themselves?

l doubt very much they will want anymore teams from Yorkshire.
Half of SL is from the county.
l feel expansion will come at the expense of more Yorkshire clubs.
l think Cas, HKR, and even the Bulls will be in the firing line in future
applications.

The Bulls? Doubt it. The other two also seem unlikely to be going anywhere in the short-medium term IMO.

Danril, l just mean in the future, lf in 10 years time all SL clubs are in modern stadia, financialy sound and performing well, plus 4 or 5 NL clubs, and the Bulls for instance are still at Odsal, in its present state, they will be very vulnerable.
Expansion is not going away, so some changes are inevitable. maybe one day we will be vulnerable.

Can see it been just the one change - Widnes for Wakey !

i agree with daz i cant see halifax coming in for anyone else harlequins, crusaders and catalans will stay in super league what ever the state of them teams and i think cas and kr have no problem with license.

cant see halifax coming in over castlefore

halifax will juat have to hope they accept an extra super league team but not likely

Your not getting it guys
2012, Wakey are out Widnes are in~
2015 1 of Cas, HKR, Bulls, are out, expansionists ie Toulouse, are in
2018 1 of Cas, HKR, Bulls, are out, expansionists are in
2021 Hold on to your hats, thats if there is such a thing as Super League
People should, if they were around, remember, Super Leagues plans (our Morrises plans) Super League for Super clubs, only 3 in West Yorks.
" The vast eternal plan" remember.

HKR is not in West Yorks.

Can't see Wakey avoiding the drop, broken promises and going into administration have given the powers that be the perfect reason to get shut. Personally i'd get rid of Crusaders and Quins, i fail to see what these 2 teams exactly add to the game, both these teams have had more than their fair share of financial troubles, 1 of them was involved in irregular player registrations but the powers that be continually play down these indescretions and go out of their way and bend over backwards for them in the name of "expansion" if these 2 so called "expansion teams" are the future of the game then "god help us".

Maybe the SKY money.







No expansion, no selling SKY boxes, no SKY sponsorship, NO PROFESSIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE. Crusaders and Harlequins are more important than 12 of the 14 SL teams.

Arguing about losing Harlequins and a Welsh team in favour of a " Heartland" team is the most pointless discussion in modern RL

Now insert any other 2 teams in there, the majority will fit the rest of the sentence.

leeds and hull fc

Apart from anything else, if we are to become a National game then we need a London team.

There's more chance of the RFL getting rid of Leeds and Wigan than Crusaders and Quins......it makes you wonder how much say in the franchise SKY TV have !!

this idea about sky saying they need larndon and crusaders, is it something sky have said or is it just a presumption?

wakey are going by the looks of it, and as they are near the bottom and just out of administration that gives super league the excuse they needed to get rid, but they are certainly no worse than crusaders who have very few fans, just out of admin, illegal players in the past few years and you can hardly call wrexham expansion into wales, its only 30 miles from widnes

Its bollox, its up ther with the RFL bailing out the Quins, surprisingly thats never happened neither



How far into wales does it have to be?

wales isnt that far fella, expansion into cardiff is ok( not that i agree with it), expansion into wrexham is not worth bothering as the crowds have proved

Sky did make it quite clear to the RFL that they wanted SL to have a wider geographical scope than it had. They did not mention Quins but you do not have to be a genius to work out that the 3 clubs which make up a geographical expansion are Crusaders, Quins and Catalans.

Catalans IMHO add a lot to SL, crusaers give us a foothold in Wales and Quins are the geographical expansion.

There is no reason why in the future that Quins will not be allowed to fail but it would surely occur in conjunction with the rise of the Skolars or another expansion team.