I don't care what anyone "thinks", "knows" etc the Vikings ARE NOT guaranteed to be shoehorned into SL!!!



They may meet a few of the criteria, but this is RL and you know what happens when they control things!!!



The saddest thing about this whole FIASCO , which is what it is, is that it has next to nothing to do withwhat happens on the field and that is the KEY SELLING POINT OF RUGBY LEAGUE!!!!!



Everything else is secondary.



Sadly the RFL etc see it completely the other way round!

Spot on

So the RFL in their wisdom have announced extra criteria a few weeks before the end of the qualifying season for the Championship clubs that are in a position to apply for SL



I'm completely surprised

Licences were graded only after they were awarded. Clubs which didn't win a licence didn't have their licence graded, for the fairly obvious reason that they didn't have a licence to grade. So no – 11 applicants didn't get a C grade of which only six were picked.

Really worried now, but i am not surprised. We must be favourites as we have the worst ground in SL and are making no progress with the new one.

I missed a trick. Whats gone wrong with the Wakey stadium development

Starry the clubs have known about them for the season.



TOC made a point of trying to drum up support at Widnes earlier in the year in an effort to get the turnover over the £1m mark but he attributed it at the time to unlocking the extra 100k on the National league salary cap.



Both Leigh and Halifax have referred to the minimum crowd figures in press releases in the last few months too. The Leigh one was in the press release for your home game against Widnes.

So basically with how many months notice before the end of a 3 year qualifying period , or is it something they decided upon once the Toulouse fiasco came out , that was around feb/early March wasn't it

Ive no idea when these have come in but TOC was speaking about the £1m turnover figure towards the start of our league campaign and the Leigh press release was some months ago.



It certainly seems to have only been mentioned from the start of this season.

I'm waiting for an employee of the RFL to take up A1.11 in the members obligations section:



[uWHISTLE BLOWING[/u

A1.11 [iIn order to ensure that Rugby League is a sport in which it is safe and acceptable for those

who have concerns about potential Misconduct the RFL has a Whistle Blowing Policy. It is an

offence of Misconduct for any Person Subject to the Operational Rules to harass or victimise

any person who has made a disclosure in accordance with the Whistle Blowing Policy.[/i

Bye Wakefield. Hello Widnes.

Bye Wakefield hello Leigh.