Or has he? the other thing i heard yesterday from someone who's quite freindly with a local Hull councillor reckons Mr Allam has made an offer but it was far two small and was rejected out of hand.

Tbf a couple of them would represent decent business.

O/T Horrible in a way that they are so clearly going to be the club to miss out - maybe better than nerves, doubt and disappointment?

IMO it should be Fulcrubronquins Experiment getting the boot.

Indeed. I'm only going by "the Mail Understands the Council has not received..." etc in, errm, the Mail.

I too heard a rumour that an offer had been made that had far too few 0s on the end of it. The cheeky devil. Melton beckons, Assam.

Not Melton luv hedon road

Not the quality of player we should be looking at. Also he has a signed 2 year contract at Wakefield and for the mean time they haven't yet being relegated.

Who are you people and how do you know these things?

God yeah I'm always wrong tho so I wud be a totally useless detective, mariano it is then....... Only if Morgan goes can see our team been even more skinny next season, well barring scotty that is

id take Rinaldi from Wakey, wouldnt want Blaymire, thought he was very lazy at our place, would Frankie come back, hed still be stuck behind Newton/Galea and probably pushed into the front row again. Luke George isnt a bad larker either,

I guess it won't be Mariano. Richard Moore????

Someone suggested that Mariano is on a Championship contract which meant if they went down a Superleague team can 'poach' him, surely this remains the case. Would we want Mariano though?

Have to change your targets now.

Congratulations on the grade B license BTW. The only true Derby in SL survives for at least another 6 years.

I wasn't sure how that worked.
So the worst that can happen next time is that we can drop to a 'C' licence?

I don't think that is the case anymore, could be wrong but I think they did away with it as it leaves the potential for on the faces of the RFL.

I think they did away with that. Can't be bothered to search for a link though. Unless we 'go pop', as so often predicted, dropping out in in 2015 does look much less likely now.

Basically, yes. But the RFL reserve the right to revoke a license at anytime.
Although when Widnes were awarded a license they said they'd done away with the grading. Baffling.

They will do away with it now as IF wakey and Cas build their new grounds and Wdnes having three years in SL they should all move up to Grade B and leave Quins as the only Grade C the RFL will have to think of a new way to keep the 30 year experiment going.

Well that being the case apart from a club imploding next time around 9 clubs can pretty much put their feet up and leave the other 5 to possibly slaughter each other.
Then take into account that Salford and possibly Cas and Wakey will be in new grounds and so could end up with 'B' plus I can't see Widnes hanging around the 'C club' for very long.
That will mean the RFL are going to have some very awkward decisions to make seeing as that will leave Quins all alone in the firing zone.

I don't understand, surely the grading is done based on the application, 'Fax could put in an application next time that scores higher than say, Bradford, are you saying that because Bradford were B this term, 'Fax can't replace them next time around?

But isn't that exactly what this process is about? Eliminating the weak links.

Basically. Depends if the rfl decide to keep to it or not. You can only move up or down 1 grade at a time.
But the idea is that hopefully, Fax and other clubs continue to improve so we can have 20-24 licensed clubs with a two tier system and bring back P&R.

Oh I agree with you.
The RFL on the other hand.

now that can work but will the rfl let it

Final paragraph of today's HDM article on Frankie Mariano (page 45): "The Mail understands...." Yay, I make that 8 days in a row since I started keeping check.

What I like about the whole "understand" saga Roofs is that they base most of the paper on understanding but curse any other media source who try to pinch a story, did you see the pictures of twitter I posted the other day? So funny.