Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:59 pm  

IR80 wrote:

nobody has been relegated...

Nobody relegated but, Toronto have withdrawn this season, failing to fulfil their fixtures, failed to pay their players and allowed a number of their squad to move on.
There looks to be no way back for them and IF they are gone, who should fill their spot ?

I know how much you like answering questions so fill yer boots

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:08 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Well said sir.

A SL spot has to be gained on the field of play.

You keep peddling that one but oddly enough the Canadian Shambles gained their SL spot that way.

I suppose Fev could have won that game, and up would have gone a club with no money relying on Leeds dual Reg players.....

Your just plain wrong here........... McManus is rightly calling for any prospective club to be checked out for their ability to sustain an SL place on a long term basis.

If both leagues were fully pro or all semi pro you may have a point. But you really don't have one here......

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:19 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

11 teams makes magic weekend problematic. If they are going to promote a team then the sooner the better they announce it so that the club can recruit. As London found out it’s difficult to go up and survive when all the other clubs have recruited.

You never know, next season is the last year of the SKY deal. The new deal may switch to licensing - after all this is what McManus is already calling for by asking the RFL to select a new Superleague club on a set of "Criteria"?

Finances, Marketing, Ground, Player development .......... Don't think "avoid bottom place" will be a criteria??

They'd look reet daft sitting round a table to find the best club outside Superleague, stick them in Superleague and then wave them bye only months later if they came bottom. You make a really really good point here.

Clubs will be very careful about being set up just to be fall guys for another rival club at the end of next season pinching their place.......Without having to meet any criteria other than winning the Championship. Again a great point......

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:43 pm  

JTCFJG wrote:

They are offering themselves up because of it was fair they should be chosen, and even if they lose every game 100 nil, they will make double the money that they would earn in Championship. hey would fill POR every home game.

Doubtful.

They couldn't even sell out vs Leeds in the middle 8s; the only team likely to be a bigger draw is Cas.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:56 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Well said sir.
It should be the same for any and every club that is striving to get there.
With P/R in place, a SL spot has to be gained on the field of play.
Of course, with the Championship season having been effectively cancelled, things are in limbo, which means that there can only be 2 options.
Either, reinstate the relegated club or, promote the next highest ranked club from the previous season.
Heads it's Fev / tails it's London.
If neither of these options is workable, then go for aggregate points form the last few seasons but, with London having been in SL for one season, where do you go with that.

What about lying to SL about getting a new stadium built, in order to get a licence? What are your thoughts on that?

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:28 pm  

Steph Curry wrote:

What about lying to SL about getting a new stadium built, in order to get a licence? What are your thoughts on that?

who lied have a link to that slanderous remark

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:51 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

That would be the right / fair response.
However, this is Rugby League and with certain parties desperate to fit Bradford in to SL, by whatever means, suggests that "fairness and good sense" wont be the deciding factors.
IF a particular club is favoured for whatever reason, the criteria will be "adjusted" to accommodate them ie "success during the SL era" or, "playing in an iconic stadium".

Having said that, who ever gets selected, it will cause problems and complaints from those who feel they have been overlooked.

It is difficult to see too far beyond London and Fev but, Toulouse would be a great addition and would allow the first proper French derby game in the professional era.

Wren you finished bottom with 6 points and weren't relegated. This high minded indignation is a touch misplaced.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:49 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Well said sir.
It should be the same for any and every club that is striving to get there.
With P/R in place, a SL spot has to be gained on the field of play.
Of course, with the Championship season having been effectively cancelled, things are in limbo, which means that there can only be 2 options.
Either, reinstate the relegated club or, promote the next highest ranked club from the previous season.
Heads it's Fev / tails it's London.
If neither of these options is workable, then go for aggregate points form the last few seasons but, with London having been in SL for one season, where do you go with that.

That seems fair to me.

BUT it will be Bradford.

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:40 am  

snowie wrote:

who lied have a link to that slanderous remark

He/she/it has no such links and is merely trolling.

It was Castleford who were promising a "move to a new facility" in 2013.

The Wakefield application for a licence was looked at and it was said "The stadium position is uncertain", Wakefield didn't lie at all, and they only scraped in but they didn't collapse like a wolfpack of cards. The latter aren't telling the truth about no money that's for sure, nor are their apologists on here, see my link on Argyle in talks to buy into Melbourne Storm.

I hereby annoint you"Trollfinder General" happy to help anytime

Re: Twelfth SL club for 2021 : Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:53 am  

Donnyman wrote:

He/she/it has no such links and is merely trolling.

It was Castleford who were promising a "move to a new facility" in 2013.

The Wakefield application for a licence was looked at and it was said "The stadium position is uncertain", Wakefield didn't lie at all, and they only scraped in but they didn't collapse like a wolfpack of cards. The latter aren't telling the truth about no money that's for sure, nor are their apologists on here, see my link on Argyle in talks to buy into Melbourne Storm.

I hereby annoint you"Trollfinder General" happy to help anytime

You really are a prize one.