Did you witness Steve O Connors words in the Hilton suite on the subject, they made Alans tame by comparison?



Our board havent had to deal with that type of rejection ' yet ' , they might react similiarily when it comes, and it will

No nor did I ready anything negative about him or his club unlike ours and our CEO.



Allan would have been equally as wise to have left his opinion in a hospitality suite also or at very most confined to an email or phone call to the RFL.

I can totaly see where you are coming from but being a conspiricy theorist, the whole thing of Widnes getting the nod and the SL sponsorship deal stank to high heaven. A team that had won zilchos got promoted to SL and their owners company was given the promotion rights for SL and paid nada.

Exactly!! You have to work with them not against them. O'Conner is a savy business man and he never publicly tried to score points against the RFL. He work behind the scenes building relationships with the people that matter. He kept Widnes out of the headlines and did what as needed and took on board what the RFL wanted them to do. Guess what? They got a place in SL and other clubs were left scratching their heads about how they did it.

This with bells on!



Rugby League and Business are two separate entities, we now finally seem to have a board who recognise this and leave rugby lads to play and coach and not run the club.

I have to say C&W that is what I was saying in my post previously and it stinks to high heaven. I would say that if Leigh did it that way I would not be pleased. On the field is how it should be done and Fax and Fev had done it better that Wignes.

Yes it stinks. But you can't influence the sport unless you are sat at the top table. Get there then you can have a voice. Let's keep quiet, look after ourselves, be as good as we can be and get to where we want to be. The sport will never die because it is so loved. Look after number 1 and we will alright.

Yes it stinks. But you can't influence the sport unless you are sat at the top table. Get there then you can have a voice. Let's keep quiet, look after ourselves, be as good as we can be and get to where we want to be. The sport will never die because it is so loved. Look after number 1 and we will alright.

Interesting that it is being reported on other boards that it was the Championship Clubs that have pushed to drop the NL ( NR ) Cup



Did we vote for it?



Is that why the clubs have been quiet on it?

Well I'm not sure that is correct.



The Featherstone Chairman has condemned this decision (which might still be reversed) and I think on the balance of problabilities why would any other Championship club want the competition scrapped ? especially bearing in mind that it is a straight forward knock out competition for them' in the same way as the Challenge Cup.

....and champ 1 clubs have a group stage so extra income for them.

It actually forms a major part of their season, and gives them the potential of a day in the spotlight, something I doubt will happen if they end up with their own stand alone cup