Well that's them and Featherstone in Super League then.

i hope the chemics get in

I think that profile fits Castleford more, super record locally in schools development in particular. Apart from the stadium of course. I would suggest that Wakefield has none of the above.

How can you compare how you played against Featherstone, or how Widnes would do against SL opposition this year? Our cap is £350,000!!! What's a SL cap? £1.5m or something like that?



Widnes are running 14,15 and 16's scholarships this year, which no one else in the Championship is running. We're gearing up for the licence bid, and I don't really know what more Widnes can do to be ready for it.

Move 200 miles away ?

Rugby league is best loved in the North and I couldn't give a about the southern softies who refuse to pick it up - just get the heartlands sorted for mine. Catalan are in French RL territory and I take no issue with them being in - that place absolutely laps it up and it's great to see.



Salford need to get their in gear and quickly otherwise they will be out on their ears and Widnes should have had their place in any case last time around never mind this time.



Quins will get in despite their absurd attendancies which simply are not increasing. Never going to increase so long as I have a hole in my . Even if they made every game free entry they would struggle to gain decent attendances IMO because there is simply too little interest. It is ridiculouse that Quins are in and Widnes have been out in the cold (as funny as that is) for so long.



Leigh

Fev

Widnes

Barrow... all offer better alternatives to Quins IMO.



Wakefield and Castleford should also stay but you can pretty much garauntee that due to their close proximity and non starting stadiums, that at least one of them will be out.



Crusaders are a mockery because the idea of them being in was due to the fact that they were in true welsh territory in the south. Now they are just outside Widnes it's simply not acceptable. But will the RL have the balls to boot them? No way.



In my opinion the following will happen.. Wakefield will drop out - replaced by Widnes



What should in wirefan's world happen is:



Quins out > Replaced by Widnes

Crusaders out > Replaced by Leigh

I've asked this a couple of times and like you here I've been largely ignored by the "I'm all right Jack" brigade on the forum too.



A couple did try and claim they wouldn't mind if it was for the good of the game but I suppose that's easy to say when you know your club is safe. The acid test only comes when you aren't.



In the context of Widnes I do think we as Warrington supporters probably need them more than Super League itself does. By that I mean that although we enjoy a good laugh at their expense and have great memories of putting sixty points on them or their own ground to send them down one glorious sunny afternoon in 2005, we do miss the derbies and therefore miss them more than most others do.



Personally I'd love Widnes in but the cynic in me says the RFL will bend over backwards to accommodate Toulouse.

hope not



its bad enough travelling to catalans



and then you have got quins and then the magic weekend where ever it will be



people wont be able afford it

It is bigger than a village as 60000 people live in it.Widnes also have runcorn to attract from and it is part of halton borough.If we get into superleague we will look to attract from south liverpool, and frodsham etc.If a team does well they travel from anywhere.Alot have moved out of widnes and come to the games like myself.Widnes is actually bigger than castleford, and you do not need 16000 fans average to be successful.Saints dont average much over 10,000

If people in Runcorn or South Liverpool want to watch Super League then they are already adequately catered for with the close proximity of both Warrington and St Helens.



I accept that Widnes is not a village however if anybody from the Hamlet of Widnes wants to watch Super League its not exactly that big an effort to travel to Warrington or St Helens. Amazing that people expect Harlequins to attract support from say Lewisham yet the people of Widnes cannot be expected to travel 10 miles maximum. You could walk to Warrington from Widnes quicker than getting from Lewisham to Twickenham by public transport.

If roles were reversed would you travel to Widnes to watch SL if you lived in Warrington? Not a chance.

If you kick out the expannsionist teams then the Sky money will go down. Widnes didn't get in last time because they lost the GF and then went bust a couple of days later. I firmly believe that they'll get in this time, most probably at Salford's expense.